Great piece, thank you. Gender ideology is the perfect cover for predators and when you look at the ‘founders’ of Queer Theory it would appear that they created it specially for that purpose.
I appreciate that Hegelians and their Marxist descendants love contradiction, as they believe it produces ripe dialectical fruit. However I have not yet understood why they thought they would get away with the hypocrisy at the heart of queer theory. If truth is just power, then the power of an adult over a child where the formation of truth is concerned makes adults dictators. Foucault's defenders apparently don't see the irony in the great liberator's abuse of colonised boys. And of course Marx got his slave girl pregnant.
Perhaps some us were misinformed that queer theory is a critique of hegemonic power. Instead, it can be understood as a user manual for achieving that power. Fortunately, this method is only effective in the short term, as long as other people are willing to defend the notion of objective reality. One day you're the head of a government-funded NGO, the next day you're in prison.
Well quite. Because it exists in a moral vacuum. Eat or be eaten. Eventually you are eaten. Nothing but self. The archetypal villain Voldemort said to Harry Potter 'there is no good or evil, only power'. But we know that is blatantly untrue. That is one of the greatest untruths promulgated. In my opinion working towards common 'good' is what has progressed societies. Otherwise we would have descended into hell long ago. And it's interesting what you say about adult dictators - that's exactly what we see with the lie of 'child led' - children are vulnerable and defer to adult authority for survival instinctively. This allows for great abuse. The abusers know this.
True that!! Reminds me of the banality of evil as presented in CS Lewis 'Screwtape Letters' - another essential read for students!!! Quality books are EVERYTHING - they can teach us so much more about the human condition then these social engineering lectures. I read Dostoevsky for the first time this year and was blown away.
Great piece, thank you. Gender ideology is the perfect cover for predators and when you look at the ‘founders’ of Queer Theory it would appear that they created it specially for that purpose.
Indeed.
I appreciate that Hegelians and their Marxist descendants love contradiction, as they believe it produces ripe dialectical fruit. However I have not yet understood why they thought they would get away with the hypocrisy at the heart of queer theory. If truth is just power, then the power of an adult over a child where the formation of truth is concerned makes adults dictators. Foucault's defenders apparently don't see the irony in the great liberator's abuse of colonised boys. And of course Marx got his slave girl pregnant.
Perhaps some us were misinformed that queer theory is a critique of hegemonic power. Instead, it can be understood as a user manual for achieving that power. Fortunately, this method is only effective in the short term, as long as other people are willing to defend the notion of objective reality. One day you're the head of a government-funded NGO, the next day you're in prison.
Well quite. Because it exists in a moral vacuum. Eat or be eaten. Eventually you are eaten. Nothing but self. The archetypal villain Voldemort said to Harry Potter 'there is no good or evil, only power'. But we know that is blatantly untrue. That is one of the greatest untruths promulgated. In my opinion working towards common 'good' is what has progressed societies. Otherwise we would have descended into hell long ago. And it's interesting what you say about adult dictators - that's exactly what we see with the lie of 'child led' - children are vulnerable and defer to adult authority for survival instinctively. This allows for great abuse. The abusers know this.
If you put Voldemort and Foucault side by side, Foucault is the one with the glasses. In Voldemort's favour, he never pretended he wasn't evil.
True that!! Reminds me of the banality of evil as presented in CS Lewis 'Screwtape Letters' - another essential read for students!!! Quality books are EVERYTHING - they can teach us so much more about the human condition then these social engineering lectures. I read Dostoevsky for the first time this year and was blown away.