How do you create a generation that will believe in anything?
After Oct 7, some purple-haired genderqueer activists on TikTok have taken to reading the Koran and are pondering converting to Islam. That may seem like a leap, but once you’re a teenage girl who decides to be a boy for internet clout, changing to Islam is less difficult.
Hijabs, like dyed hair and androgynous clothes, have long become just another accessory of restless social change. Commercials that claim to relate to the youth invariably include a woman in a hijab as a progressive marker alongside a purple haired they/them, an ascetic activist type in a t-shirt and random minorities laughing together while having lattes on a college campus.
Every generation in the last 60 years has grown up with less of a sense of who it is than the previous one. The intangible sense of being an American that once came from boundless frontiers, a work ethic, a sense of fair play and meritocracy was replaced by cultural programming distributed by daily newspapers, big publishing houses and movie theaters, then television networks and colleges, and finally a massive chaotic stream of social media sewage.
American identity used to be so strong because it was internal and acquired through hard work and the character shaping experiences of life in a country with many possibilities, but it became performative for those members of newer generations with diminishing frontiers who acquired theirs from following a script written for them by the entertainment industry and radical academics. Rather than learning who they were, they copied who they thought they should be.
Social media combined with academic theories that reduced all identities to a construct unleashed a generation of mutants who mimeographed behaviors on social media. Identity became a game. And identity could be gamed for maximum advantage. Socially astute and emotionally unstable teens spread social media diseases like transgenderism or facial tics
Politics became just another cultural identity that could be cosplayed at will. Some social media influencers played far-leftists and then fascists, putting on and taking off costumes, swapping t-shirts with different slogans, Antifa shirts giving way to farm dresses and then hijabs.
On Sunday, they’re wearing pink hats, on Monday, they’re attending alt-right art shows, on Tuesday, they have their fists in the air for BLM, and on Wednesday they’re waving ‘Palestinian’ flags. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” segueways to “From the River to the Sea.” They rarely understand any of the causes they embrace, but politics to them is just a fashion show.
It’s hard to blame the mutants. They grew up on social media where the old high school cliques are about international politics, massive lifestyle changes or castrations and mastectomies. The outfits and the posturing are about getting attention, finding a group, and a lucrative side hustle.
Social media and academia turned millions of people into living viruses whose emotional needs drive them to find weaknesses in our existing systems and ways of living. Teenage girls who might have gone goth and flirted, but not too seriously, with suicide in a previous generation announce that they’re boys and encourage impressionable younger girls to join them.
People die and have their lives ruined, but teenage fads always did that. They rarely disrupted society on this scale, and the teenagers usually moved on and grew up. But that was when there was something to grow up to and a sane world waiting out there for them. In the age of corporate affinity groups and workplace DEI, the intellectual chaos of teenage and college years extends into their adult jobs. And social media continues to incentivize the same behaviors.
The adult world with its fixed truths and serious responsibilities is less present than ever. Rather than imposing the reality that so many had expected, dismissing campus antics with, “just wait till they grow up and get jobs”, that world is a reflection of the same cultural chaos and instability. What is truth, morality, love, family, right and wrong, or even a woman, are up for grabs. And social media has become the battlefield for the endless debates about every element of reality.
The essence of ‘mutantness’ is that change has become its own identity. Radicalism exists for the sake of radicalism. The culture war was always about making leftist politics into the source of identity, but much as in Weimar Germany, this didn’t lead to dominance, just instability. What does perpetual rebellion turn into when there is nothing to rebel against? A broken society eventually slides into communism or fascism just so someone will finally end the chaos.
The ideal recruits for totalitarians are believers who can latch onto any mass movement at the drop of a dime because they desperately need something to believe in to fill the hole within. The leftist culture war has left behind generations of cultural orphans, robbed of faith, family and country, who veer between causes and identities, changing politics, religions and genders with total ease because they want to believe, yet they were born without anything to believe in.
Academic theories have taught them to see everything from the outside, not the inside. Gender, race and sexuality are mere constructs. So they become genderfluid and invent minority roots. Politics is all-consuming, but also meaningless, so they scream for the ‘current thing’. They’ve been robbed of the ability to feel so they go to extremes to try and briefly feel something.
They act out political and gender roles from the outside: they imitate because they have been made incapable of experiencing. With no identity of their own, they’re all ‘Obamas’, trained to see the culture from the outside, fitting in by sending cultural signals, gaining social clout by manipulating people on social media, and yet remaining cold and unfeeling inside.
You might say that a generation raised on social media is a generation of Obamas.
Leftist culture warfare and extremism has created a culture that no one can fit into except by mimicry and running along to keep pace with its latest shifts. The pop culture of last year is this year’s hate crime. Yesterday’s virtue is today’s vice. The best way to adapt is to just shout along. And that is how you end up with mobs chanting in support of Hamas. You could just as easily get them to rally in support of burning witches or killing all the children because most of the participants don’t understand the cause and have learned to internalize a barrage of memes and first-person emoting without feeling the reality of the cause or grasping the consequences.
Nothing is real to them except their own internal unreality and the emotional pain they feel.
Mutants are too busy running away to want to think about what they’re running to. Today’s cause will get tiring soon. It will require too much commitment and then grow stale. They will have to look at themselves in the mirror and see that they are the same people they were yesterday. And then they will find a new cause to champion and a new disguise to wear.
Today they’re transgender, tomorrow they’re Muslims. And the day after tomorrow? Maybe they’ll be Nazis. There are so many possibilities, so many shades of eyeshadow they can put on while listening to lo-fi beats derived from 1920s music: a new reinvention is just waiting for them.
This one, the next current thing, will surely work and make them feel like they matter.
The first casualty of a culture war is the culture. People who derive their identity from the culture, become mutants, changing all the time, zombies, shambling soullessly along, or grab a piece of the culture to recruit their own mutant and zombie armies to gain power.
Or they unplug from a culture gone mad and reach for the truths of their own character.
Know thyself, an old dead white man once said. That is still the only bulwark against mass cultural programming and a society gone mad. We are entering a world of knowers and mutants, those who know what they believe and those who will believe anything. Those who do and those will do anything so they never have to look themselves in the eye.
The business of a healthy society is expecting each man and woman to know themselves. Those who believe in nothing, can become anything, but those who know themselves, can become who they are and fulfill their potential. Mutants can’t change the world, only destroy it. To change the world, a man or woman has to first deal with their greatest enemy: themselves.
The mutants are willing to do anything to avoid being themselves. They will disfigure themselves, tear down our society, or kill millions so they never have to know themselves.
tgusa says
Darwin award winners. Devolution in action. If you wished misery on them you would support their transition. They are choosing to remove themselves from the human genome and I will not interfere with their death wishes.
James Lincoln says
tgusa says,
“If you wished misery on them you would support their transition.”
Great point.
I don’t wish misery on them, but I’m painted as the bad guy…
tgusa says
“I’m painted as the bad guy”
I know what you mean James. The left didn’t like the, live and let live, tgusa, so I quit being that guy when it comes to them. I hope they enjoy the new me but I have no doubt the left will whine and complain about that as well. Thank goodness I dont care.
somehistory says
People have gone quite insane.
My daughter has a job where some of the time, she has to cash checks…business, irs, etc. Before cashing, she advises the customer not to sign it before she runs it through one of those companies that say if it’s good or not.
One woman came in and wanted to sign it against the advice my daughter gave her. When she handed it over, my daughter saw it was post-dated and told the customer she couldn’t cash it.
The woman began yelling that she was “discriminating” against her. She said, “You looked at me and decided to discriminate.”
No amount of explanation worked, the woman said she was going to report her to management, and my daughter said, “go ahead.”
People are going berserk for no reason.
tgusa says
I work in IT support and I have had my share of self important nuts and they found out the consequences of doing that. Its not wise to piss off the IT guy, especially when your manager is breathing down your back expecting you to get that work project completed. It doesn’t help them when they complain to my management when the overwhelming majority think I’m professional courteous and quickly resolved their issues saving their day and sometimes their job. My boss knows I am a lone wolf that gets things done so I’m good.
somehistory says
All the people who work with my daughter, love her. She is a real kind-hearted, mild-mannered, sweet person; always smiling and friendly.
The woman did go to one of the bosses and the boss told her that he knew she hadn’t done anything wrong, but he had to ‘talk to her’ about it…guessing the idiot customer was watching him do so. They had a laugh over it.
The thing that stood out was the fact that the check was un-cashable…illegal to cash it…and the woman decided that she had been “discriminated” against just by my daughter looking at her and then making the decision.
It didn’t matter to her that the action would have been illegal, and endorsing it means if she loses it, it’s gone.
tgusa says
“the check was un-cashable”
Not too different than, got a dead machine and you really need those files you neglected to back up? Well, maybe I find them maybe I dont. It depends.
somehistory says
I have one like that. Bet you could find them. Mainly photos. And no, I didn’t back up all of them. Some, not all.
Hoping some day to find someone to “find them.” It’s going to cost me, and I have no idea how much.
tgusa says
“People have gone quite insane.” Ya think? From the web; Senate Staffer Caught Filming Gay Sex Tape in Senate Hearing Room. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
somehistory says
Off the internet, or inside the room happenings?
Nothing much surprises any longer.
Glenn Beck and Stu were discussing the ‘mutant’ changing of gender and finding that a men’s store in Dallas has high heels, skirts and makeup for sale; guy in skirt, makeup and sporting a beard behind the counter.
tgusa says
“Bet you could find them.” Most likely. You have to boot to a recovery program but if the machine wont power on you have to remove the hard drive and hook it up to another machine and go from there. I remember way back in the day there was a program on the internet you could download for free but you could only recover three files at a time and so you had to shutdown restart over and over again to get everything you wanted. What a pain in the arse that was. Things are different now, thankfully.
somehistory says
The power comes on, but nothing happens after what looks like it will. It was working fine one day, and the next….and I needed some of the photos for a legal matter. Others, I just wanted to print out or send to someone.
Thanks for the assist. It gives me ideas.
tgusa says
No problem. Power comes on but black screen? You should get a message on the screen if its memory or HD related. My first thought would be video but it could be the processor or the board itself.
somehistory says
No message. Guess I need an expert, but I plan to ask my son about what you’ve said.
When he was a teenager, a friend gave him a computer from which he said he had removed everything.
After only a couple of hours, my son had entered the back door and there were all the *deleted* files. And that was his first real experience with computers.
So, he may have an idea how I can use what you’ve told me.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
A few months ago, I had a laptop that completely stopped working. Wouldn’t even turn on.
Talented IT techs were unable to retrieve any data from the hard drive. Thousands of files.
Luckily, all of the files were backed up on Carbonite. It took five days, but I was able to reload all of the files off of Carbonite.
Money well spent for the subscription service.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
These days, I have my laptop draw its files from OneDrive (the default if one’s using Windows: it would be iCloud for Macs & Google Drive for ChromeBooks). But recently, my OneDrive got filled up w/ 5GB, & I wasn’t willing to buy Microsoft 365 from a company that is center-stage in the Woke insurrection. So I just got a 1TB SSD, moved everything in C:\User\Infidel to the SSD, & freed it all up again, The advantage of using OneDrive was that if one buys a new computer, one can instantly get that brand new computer to the same condition – settings, wallpaper, etc as the old one, & continue working like nothing had happened
I know that this is after your incident, but in general, note to anyone – if you still have a hard drive in your computer, it’s worth replacing it w/ an SSD and moving all the contents. The durability of the latter is simply longer – about as long as the CPU and memory, since they are all now silicon. Of course, almost all new computers these days come w/ some sort of SSD. Essentially, if one has enough SSD (512GB should be reasonable for a Windows 11 box, but 256GB is too low: my Microsoft Surface Book has 256GB & half of it is already taken by the OS & utilities), as well as adequate memory (at least 8GB), one should be good
It’s also a good idea to periodically back up all your stuff to an external SSD, as opposed to the “cloud”, which is someone else’s computer, where they can do anything to one’s data w/o being liable, since most people don’t read the fine print
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somehistory
It is news to me that post-dated checks can’t be cashed. Years ago, when I banked w/ BofA, I used to issue post dated checks to the various entities I had to pay – PG&E, Pac Bell, et al, so that they’d synchronize w/ my paydays. Unfortunately, AT&T used to honor those checks in advance, resulting in a few bounced checks. That really annoyed me, so once things stabilized, I moved my account and never looked back
I do wish banks treated post dated checks like they were signed, instead of overriding the customer’s instructions & acting as a law unto themselves
somehistory says
Infidel, for the very reason…the money taken from your account when it wasn’t in your account…is why they are not cashed by reputable companies.
It’s the writing of a rubber check…an NSF check…the money isn’t there to cover it.
Many people write checks when they know that the money is not there and won’t be there, but it gets the creditor off their case for a day or two.
The banks will hold all checks until the end of day….which for many is 2 a.m. the next morning…while they process the deposits, and then deduct the checks. That way, any checks which have been written with the expectation that the money would be in the account, are OK.
But, it is against the Law to write a check when it is known there are no deposits coming in to cover it.
The company she works for does not allow her to cash a check if the service on which they rely to contact the bank, says the money is not there. And it also says not to take any post-dated checks; they don’t run those through the service at all.
I once worked for Telecheck, and you cannot imagine the number of checks which are written and are NSF from the get-go.
Many banks charge the accounts of people who deposit checks which are NSF; some will put the check through numerous times and charge the account each time it bounces.
So a lot of companies use the service before they accept a check to make sure it’s covered.
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James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Thanks for the reply – and additional valuable information.
tgusa says
I have files dating back to the 90s because I ripped them to disk and or put a copy of them on another computer, disc or HD. Everyone should have a desktop computer because those allow for multiple hard drives unlike laptops. Its easy that way, you just copy whatever you want from C:\ to D:\. Some new computers are equipped with an SSD that are not like old style 2.5 inch SSD but are similar to a memory chip. From my experience those fail at an alarming rate so never count on those. If you have files you want to keep put them in different locations that you yourself have control over. Websites and storage sites come and go. Use a USB, CD/DVD Disc, External/Internal HD, another computer, etc.
tgusa says
And if you are upgrading/replacing your computer dont worry about backing up or saving existing programs to transfer to the new one Use the Windows snipping tool to take”pictures” of the list of programs on your computer (be sure to put those on a USB) Using a backup copy from your existing to transfer to another computer or the same computer is not a good thing. Most likely there will be an updated version of any program you use minus the updates and fixes that have had to be done since you installed first it. A clean install is best, performance wise and all around.
tgusa says
“A few months ago, I had a laptop that completely stopped working. Wouldn’t even turn on.”
I hate to say it (it comes from experience) but I have to, does the electrical outlet you are using have power? Is the power supply going to the laptop malfunctioning or plugged in right? That is rare but not unheard of.
Talented IT techs were unable to retrieve any data from the hard drive. Thousands of files.
I wont comment on the talented techs because I dont know what they tried. And yes, irretrievable files does happen.
bill says
As I have said many times people have forgotten or have never been taught about the social contract. Everybody knows all about their ‘ ‘uman rights’ but everybody has forgotten about their obligations. I watch a police programme from UK and so often the people being questioned by the police start up telling them (the police) what they cannot do and about their rights. Unfortunately for them the police know more about the law than they do!
Of course I do not need to mention the religion of many of those people. You know, that religion that does not recognise human rights anyway.
somehistory says
Mutants in biology most often lead to some disability, deformity or disease.
Recently, it was reported that a possible “cure” was found for sickle cell disease…caused by a mutant gene. The “cure” is to do gene therapy with stem cells which, hopefully, will result in normal red blood cells, as opposed to the deformed, sickle shaped ones.
There is a current ad for some kind of medical treatment and the “doctor” is a young female wearing the scarf of islam. She’s *explaining* something to her “patient,” a young male.
One cannot watch the news, or read an article about any subject, without seeing islam in it somewhere…often in the name of the writer. If it’s read closely, it’s quite obvious the writer doesn’t understand the subject…or English.
I can recall many movies and television shows, and even books where the young person, teen or early college age, was going off on some wild tangent and the parents being perplexed by “how could it happen?” and the young person advising their parents and the friends of their parents in an all-knowing voice. At the end, the young person had come to his/her senses and discovered the parents knew *right* all along.
Real life is only imitating the first part of the story….the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey was fond of saying, is that the young person grows into an adult, still believing they know it all.
Hudders. says
Another important article by Daniel.
Grave concerns regarding the diabolical designs many influencial media groups/persons, well funded activist organizations & leftie politicians. have on today’s younger generations are tellingly raised here.
Namely, how could any being with semblance of humanity, or common decency, support, encourage, or even actively promote the introduction of vulnerable & menatally mallable young people; many already damaged by their flirtation with the soul spoiling leftie culture cancer, to some of the most dangerous, warped & backwards hate filled rantings; such as those found in that guide book of all things unholy & hellish, namely the Qur’an?
I believe anyone who encourages another person or persons to read that textbook of terror, should be convicted of hate crimes & those against humanity. It being as evil an act as one could do to another, without physical harm.
For between it’s cruel covers are contained the darkest of demonic doctrines, we know to be responsible for some of the saddest, most brutal & blood stained episodes in human history.
A big worry about those mutants among us is, that they are quite likely to turn to murderers in short order.
SKA says
Thomas Carlyle said concerning the Quran that only a sense of duty could compel a Westerner to read it. He found it utterly tedious.
somehistory says
A large part of their problem is no self-control. They don’t think things through before acting and immediate pleasure or reward…however small…is more important to them than doing the right thing.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I thought that that was a Confucius quote, which would make it an old dead yellow man
tgusa says
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Sun Tzu
To paraphrase Star Treks Doctor McCoy (old dead white man), they’re dead Jim.
Jayell1 says
How about that other quote from Dr. McCoy – ‘They’re life forms, Jim, but not as we know it’? That seems to sum up quite a lot of the specimens we’re supposed to tolerate these days.
tgusa says
Good one, Jayell1.
Don McKellar says
One of the greatest hooks of Islam is that it provides strict structure and that is something these lost people crave deep down. It gives them all the answers and instructions on how to conduct every aspect of life. It is the cult nature of Islam that attracts them. A very dark and perverse safety they don’t have.
somehistory says
A recent study proved out what many have known for a long, long time. Parents who make reasonable rules for their kids, and make the kids follow them, showing love all the way through, have the happiest, most well-adjusted children.
Everyone needs a structure to their lives. Little kids need to know their parents are there, guiding and supporting them.
Young adults who have been allowed to make their own decisions about everything…with permissive parents….don’t have the structure, nor do they have any support and guidance on which they can depend.
They are like ships without rudders.
Joe Kool says
These idiots who want to convert to islam should go to a muslim country of their choice ( if allowed in) and if they survive a week they will be begging to get out. Actually you can now go to London or Berlin and pretty much get the full islamic experience. The hotels in the islamic neighborhoods are cheaper ( maybe because of islamaphobia) but they should go for ot!
tgusa says
The idiots dont understand that conversion is just the first step. After that, step out of line and you are in deep trouble. For too long the western left has not suffered the consequences of their actions. Westerners never held them accountable, many just ignored it or excused it or just wrote it off for many other reasons. Just as there is no fun in islam there is no compassion or overlooking islamic stuff within islam as well. That is something the idiots will find out but find out too late. As most of us here know there is no going back in islam either. The idiots might as well adopt the Kansas song Dust in the Wind as their theme song because if they continue on the path they are on Dust in the Wind is exactly what they will become, prematurely.
Ari Dale says
A long and terribly depressing shopping list of what went wrong; please now try suggestions as to what to do about it.
Ernie says
Thank you Ari ; I was thinking the same !
Buzz says
Those who believe in nothing are seeing the truth…
European pagan says
They them sounds for me like a schizophrenic person
VictorMc says
Hundreds of words to describe mindless morons. Why do you bother? Most of them can barely read so you are preaching to the converted.
BTW: I have totally and permanently BANNED any of my correspondents from sending me ANYTHING emanating from TikTok. If the occasional one slips through it gets deleted & spam boxed instantly.
Yaakov Holansky says
Robert. you’re right on target!
mea says
the political class occupying the offices of the governments of the west, to a woman, have been extorted and/or bribed to do their mohammedan masters bidding… even the Pope and his bishop boys are now suck-up morrows …Liberation theology supports the rise of the mohammedan supremacy. And no one cares.
The Hindus should be ‘expelling the contract to stay in India violating mohammedans’ for breach of contract by jihad, but, the entire Indian political class is so extorted : bribed to suck-up to the mohammedans the government lets the mohammedans run wild… attacking society and citizen just like the mohammedans are allowed to do in the west by the government offices occupying western political class..
E T says
What version of the Qur’an is it reading? The book stores offer many versions, sorta like the church of what’s happening now.
James Lincoln says
Yes, mutants among us.
Just 40 years ago, 1983, if a person time traveled into 2023 USA, they would find the country totally unrecognizable.
somehistory says
James, that is so true. But if one of the ‘mutants’ travelled back those years, they’d go into some kind of seizure or ‘fit’ trying to get someone…anyone…to listen and not laugh, or send for the men in white coats.
James Lincoln says
Great point, somehistory.
OLD GUY says
Could it be that the electrodes from holding a cell phone continually are effecting brain cells. Ever sense the mobile phone came out people have become nuttier.
tgusa says
Cell phones, Rock music, Video games, Mental illness, Flowers in the garden. How do you fix 1400 years of inbreeding? I dont have the stats but I would wager that successful civilizations of the past that didn’t practice inbreeding. The islamic world is very different than any other worlds on this planet, now and before.
Athmanathan Seetharaman says
Western society is collapsing. These mutant individuals should better convert themselves to Islam. Let them reach the Muslim countries or the local Muslim ghettos. The muslims will most certainly rape them till their private parts are full of blood as we have seen what happened to women hostages held by Hamas.