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The Irish Are Losing Their Way

Sinéad Murphy

Driving home after Christmas, we pulled in at the last toll plaza on the M8 to Cork. It had been dark for hours with ‘Storm Gerrit’ still pelting. As I lowered the window to hold out my card, a voice struck through the dark and wind and rain, screaming over the heavens and the engines:

WELL, AND WAS SANTY GOOD TO YE?

I hadn’t heard ‘Santy’ in years – not since my grandfather used to ask the same question.

Then, handing back my card and still screaming:

NOW LISTEN, IF I DON’T SEE YE, HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

If I don’t see ye? The absurdity of it was matched only by its conviviality, astonishing triumph over heavenly wrath and earthly hell.

Imagine this man, who goes every day to a grey place on a hill on the last leg of the finest motorway in Europe, built at public risk for private profit down the back bone of a tiny green isle, artery for no more than a trickle of traffic sucked in and around and out of Dublin’s M25, banked by rock on which the planting has not yet taken, decked in Public Art to still the soul that was purchased for sublime sums by the Public Art Budget and looks strangely akin to the many configurations of 5G mast.

Imagine this man, trussed up in a grey metal box, who spends his day at what must surely be the most precarious job on the planet at the edge of which AI capabilities crouch at the ready, flicking his laytexed wrist to bridge a tiny and shrinking gap between robotic people in robotic cars and the contactless card reader stuck to the side of his cabin, realising the affectless consent of those who, between Rathcormac and Watergrass Hill in the county of Cork, submit to being scalped by one of the handful of global conglomerates that occupy what used to be our lives.

Imagine this man, whose tenuous subsistence is relentlessly summarized by ‘Why not get a tag?’ messages emblazoned on the electronic screens at his front and rear.

Imagine this man, to whom a stranger was a neighbour notwithstanding, who he might perhaps meet again before the New Year but to whom he should extend the best wishes of the season just in case.

This man really still exists. This man is not yet a dream.

His power, startling now in its rarity? He has not quite forgotten how to live.

Pinned in by the infrastructure of anonymity, obscured by an unlikely combination of filthy fumes and clinical PPE, commissioned for a pittance to do the bidding of distant masters, still this man remembers how to live, with that assuredness which carries all before it and comes of being part of a living, breathing culture.

True, his voice is all but drowned out. And his encounters are fleeting and clogged by a paltry transaction. No doubt many who pay their toll do not hear him over their stereo, or do not heed him in their ennui. And, of course, some have already got the tag.

This man must strain now, and ever more implausibly, against a mighty opposite force. Transnational ambitions of technocratic domination are pitted against him, against vernacular cultures everywhere and their gift of knowing how to live.

The control-by-expert that is the globalist vision for our future requires that we forget how to live – forget so completely that life is recast as a series of problems demanding a series of solutions, digitally enabled, surveillance soaked, data extractive solutions.

We are bombarded now by these solutions: how much to drink, how often to eat, how to keep our friends, how to raise our children, how to stand properly, how to sit well, how to breathe. Yes, they have gone so far as to solve the problem of breathing.

We reach for these solutions as we lose confidence in our native ways and means, and they are promoted so relentlessly that our confidence wanes further and we scramble for the latest expert strategies and hardly recall how to catch our breath.

Knowing how to live: of all things what must be got rid of for the human landscape to be cleared of the characteristic self-reliance of vibrant cultures, and replanted with ever-updating top-down solutions for which we crave in our new dependency.

*

In a book from 1982, Ivan Illich claimed that there is one thing that all human cultures have had in common: gender.

In fact, according to Illich gender is what has made human cultures – whatever customs of dressing, working, eating, talking, playing, celebrating, dying have distinguished one culture from another have been gendered customs of dressing, working, eating, talking, playing, celebrating, dying.

The myriad ways in which men have been men and women have been women are the myriad ways people have known how to live.

Illich does not argue that this is how cultures should be, only that this is how cultures have been.

We need no longer wonder at recent decades’ concerted and relentless attack on gender.

To clear the world of human cultures as the vision of global governance demands – to reset human life as comprising uniform possibilities to be administered from above and on a massive scale – it is necessary to clear the world of what has made human cultures. It is necessary to clear the world of gender.

The mechanism for this clearance has been simple and apparently unobjectionable: promotion of the virtue of equality.

Appeals to equality reframe the gendered ways of vernacular cultures as regrettable instances of what is called ‘sexism’ – inequality based on sex.

But sexism is possible only where primary and secondary sexual characteristics are taken to be the most signficant difference between people. Already to allege sexism is to implicitly redefine people as primarily biological beings.

Human cultures throughout history have been the milieux of men and women, not of biological males and females. Human cultures, for this reason, cannot be sexist. To interpret them as sexist is to unsettle their foundations by obscuring the mode of being of their people.

Just amplifying the seeming virtue of sexual equality undermines native cultures, wrongfooting their people and readying them for subjugation by technical solutions.

And those solutions have followed fast, a veritable avalanche, as the vacuum left by manufactured contempt for gendered ways of life has been filled with technical and endlessly refreshed centralised strategies.

It turns out that the great epochal project of ending sexual inequality is hardly more edified than the project of making a society which has just been framed as sexist into a non-sexist society.

The first signal of the encroachment of technocratic control is the deliberate construction of problems that must then be given their solutions. The allegation and then mitigation of sexism is a calamatous example of this.

*

The second signal of the rise of technocacy is the splintering of deliberately constructed problems so that the requirement of finding solutions to them is multiplied without end.

It is in this context that we can place recent and ongoing dismantling of the biological categories of male and female.

Notwithstanding that openness to the so-called ‘fluidity’ of biological sex is abroad as an indicator of the liberality of our age, its effect has been to advance the subjugation of people through the further undermining of gendered cultures.

After all, if the enterprise of making the tasks, tools and talk of a society available and effective more equally for males and females is ongoing, then that of establishing equality for the many biological and quasi-biological orientations and identifications that are being named and claimed at bewildering pace is truly without end.

With the fragmenting of biological sex, the great project of equality is in the mode of permanent escape, wrecking the last vestiges of human cultures with artifical and transient solutions that are in the process of failing even as they promise success and that are clamoured for all the more helplessly as a result.

‘Progressive’ hyperinflation of the perception of sexual inequality is the enemy of cultures and the friend of technocracies.

And the ‘conservative’ push-back against it, which insists that there are only two sexes, only males and females, in fact buttresses technocratic control as actively as does the ‘progressive’ narrative.

What both ‘conservatives’ and ‘progressives’ obscure is that, before the reframing of human cultures as sexist, men and women were only tangentially defined by their biology; men and women were gendered beings, cultured beings, part and parcel of ways of life.

This vital historical fact is denied both by those who defend the binarism of biological males and females, and by those who argue that biology is fluid.

The ‘conservatives’ and ‘progressives’ fight it out on terrain that was marked out for them, and it hardly matters much who wins.

The real battle ought to be waged against the characterisation of people as primarily biological entities, against the remaking of human life as a technically convenient bare life.

How ready we are to line up against one another on either side of a line that was drawn for us. We should abandon this staged fight which is not of our making and does not serve our interest.

We are not biological beings. We are cultural beings. That is what has made us human. The assault on our culturedness by the promotion of sexual equality is a direct attack on our humanness.

It may sober our overheated flailing at the battle lines of technocracy to consider that it is this attack which makes us vulnerable to the technocratic endgame already seeking to realise itself and promising a dystopia the like of which we can scarcely conceive:

Certainly, the phenomenon of transsexuality has been a most effective tool of the technocrats, unsettling people’s implicit recognition of men and women on which their way of life has historically been founded with an explicit experience of hyper-biologised beings.

However, as ‘conservative’ and ‘progressive’ bickering over the plausibility of changing sex further embeds the remodelling of people as defined by their biology, the way is smoothed for another and far more significant mode of transition: transhumanism, when we are so reduced to our biological elements and processes that the introduction of robotic components is hardly a game-changer, when we are directly programmable and therefore totally under control.

*

For many years now, Ireland has been subject to a particularly intense cultural offensive. Why this should be so is an open question. It may be that Ireland is – or was, at least – more than usually culturally robust, an opportunity for the technocrats to really cut their teeth.

Among the many prongs of the offensive against Ireland, the assault on gender has been consistent and startling.
It is indicative that, during our Christmas visit, the country was full of talk of a man called Enoch Burke, a teacher who had been suspended from his job and was now in prison for refusing to use the preferred pronoun of one of his students and refusing to stop protesting against his subsequent dismissal.

As with so much of public debate of transsexuality, both the tos and the fros on the fate of Enoch Burke served only to buttress the base-line position of the technocracts, for whom people are tethered to their biology – whether fliud or not, it hardly signifies.

Meanwhile, with so much achieved in the decimation of Irish culture, the craven men in their Dail seats are emboldened.

On 8th March, the Irish government is to hold a referendum, in part to gain support for its removal of the terms ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ from Article 41 of the constitution.

It is of course not possible to summarize the complexities of a given culture, the infinite ways in which its men and women know how to live.

But it is possible to observe at least this: if the Irish man, still lingering in the M8 tollbooth, was characteristically hardworking and playful, drawing people into the social fold with a dignity that derived from the effect it produced rather than the gravitas of its methods; then the Irish woman, typically in the home and mother to the kinship group, commanded a respect that is difficult to capture for us who are inured to the smear campaign that has dismissed domestic life as subhuman drudgery.

This Irish woman had a seriousness about her that in other cultures can be the preserve of men. She was in charge in a manner not always explicit, but present in the number of confidences she invited and received, and in the influence she held over the fate of young people.

The Irish government’s referendum seeks only to establish what has already occurred, that is true. The Irish mother in the homestead, support for all around, is as ailing a figure of Irish life as is the Irish man in his place of work effortlessly constituting a lively social scene.

Yet, there is something so objectionable in the openness now with which they pursue their agenda, in the boldness with which they act to erase men and women as shameful vestiges of human history…

…and then to promote men and women as garish exhibits in the theme park societies carelessly under construction on the ruins of human cultures…

Ireland has just enjoyed its first ‘Brigid’s Day,’ a new government-santioned holiday for the Irish people and the first national holiday named in honour of a woman.

‘Brigid’s Day’ has been hailed as a triumph for women’s liberation – ‘sweet victory for all Mná,’ as it is described by the organisation ‘Herstory,’ which ran the campaign for it with the usual virtuous catch-cries.

Silent while the erasure of the women of Ireland seeks to be given official flourish, ‘Herstory’ busies itself by selling back to their bewildered counterparts a glossy and inherently submissive version of what they have lost, putting in the service of Irish women skills honed by their CEO in her previous career advertising ‘iconic global brands.’

Poor Brigid, whoever she was, shamelessly pushed forward to distract from the evisceration of Irish women, whose faithful lives are to be hidden forever as a grotesquely rebranded ‘matron-saint,’ ‘pan-European triple goddess’ girl-boss, arrives on the scene to solve their problems.

Poor Brigid, if ever she was, coopted to remind us that we must ‘strive for equality,’ that we must ‘heal our inner feminine and masculine,’ exhumed to give a virtue-wash to the enslavement of her people, whose characteristic flesh and blood and heart and soul are recast as helpless clusters of hormones and secretions and neurons and synapses, to be administered by experts and instructed to feel freed.

*

Almost my last sight before leaving Cork at the end of the Christmas holidays was of the outside of a shop on Prince’s Street, a shop called Love Lisa.

Under typically soft Irish rain stood a forlorn young woman, overseeing the operation of a type of roulette wheel, hastily assembled and already beginning its collapse, to be spun by those about the enter the shop so as to determine the percentage reduction they would enjoy on the price of their puchases.

If the man in the tollbooth still peddles the appearance of a market place, though the market is rigged and the price and product don’t tally, the woman at the roulette wheel commands, if you could call it ‘commands,’ a casino. You don’t pay. You play. And, of course, the house always wins.

The man’s tollbooth is surely unforgiving – grey steel clouded in fumes, the inhuman infrastructure of an inhuman system.

But the woman’s jaloppy wheel hardly stands up or spins round, a cardboard sop to the analogue world, carelessly washed in rainbow tones. The real infrasructure of the casino is clasped in her hand, as it is in the hands of all the young women who enter the shop – the smartphone, hosting the tools that allow you to play…

…and the tools that prevent you from playing.

Betting is advertised everywhere now, with a fervour exceeded only by the promotion of applications to stop you from betting: technocracy on speed, tripping over itself in its eagerness to apply its solutions to problems it can hardly be bothered anymore to invent.

The clothes in Love Lisa are cheap. But the percentage off is still meaningful. In the spectacularly engineered ‘cost of living crisis,’ a ten percent reduction on €13.98 is not insignificant to young women with few means.
In reduced economies, playing to win takes on hues of playing to survive – will we notice when the music stops, and it’s no longer for fun?

And when it’s no longer for fun – in queues outside supermarkets, trading our digital ID not for ‘rewards’ but for rations – what of those tools they are so keen for us to download, the applications to ‘help’ us ‘press pause’? When all the world’s a casino, you can’t afford to press pause on play.

But, for the moment at least, it’s still for fun at Love Lisa, where your ten percent reduction will win you one stretchy garment or another as worn by the young women in the shop’s posters, clothing cut to accentuate bottom and breasts and accessorized with plumped lips, talon nails and eyelases larger than life.

How contemptuous, their biologising of people: young women, remade as garish constellations of inflated sexual tissue, spending their last pennies on cartoon versions of their lowest common biology, even surgically undergoing their own satire.

*

In 1990, Ireland elected Mary Robinson as its first woman president. In her victory speech, she made reference to Mná na hÉireann – the women of Ireland – who ‘instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.’

Almost all the women who heard Robinson’s speech that day had rocked a cradle in the past, would rock a cradle in the future, or were, at that very moment, rocking a cradle. We listened to the disdain of our woman champion, another globalist shill.

The women of Ireland do still rock cradles, though the birth rate is now below replacement – but they hardly know how to any longer. They are not supported to do it, as Article 41 of the Irish constitution pledges.

And, in between delegating the task to the usual institutions, they consult the usual guides – technocratic bibles – on mothering, parenting, weaning, toddlers, teething…, scrambling for expert advice on what they used to know.
As for rocking the system, the idea would be laughable if it were not the greatest of travesties.

Mná na hÉireann: consigned to playing a too-serious game for increasingly meagre crumbs of whatever crass solutions are advertised to them with the lazy hypberbole of a total regime; sublimating energies previously expended on things they knew how to do by remaking themselves in the image of one or other corporate mirage – sexed Lisa or saint Brigid, cheap or worthy, vulgar or virtuous.

It’s all the same when you’ve lost your way.

Sinéad Murphy is author of Effective History (2010), The Art Kettle (2012), and Zombie University (2017), and co-editor of Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns (2022).

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Hamish Dawson
Hamish Dawson
Mar 11, 2024 3:03 AM

Please, Off Guardian, post my innocuous comment on this article and unshadow ban me, I come to Off Guardian as a last bastion of free expression.

antonym
antonym
Mar 9, 2024 2:02 PM

EU = created by WEF globalist creatures who want to kill off its nation states for a homogeneous soup they can control better.

ariel
ariel
Mar 12, 2024 9:19 PM
Reply to  antonym

‘Eheu, Eheu’ The Roman lament. ‘ALAS,’ ‘an expression of PAIN.’

Alpine Observer
Alpine Observer
Mar 9, 2024 10:59 AM

Excellent article. It’s in the top 10% that I’ve read here since 2015.

KarenEliot
KarenEliot
Mar 9, 2024 1:23 PM

Agreed, all of Sinead’s pieces (and her books, the ones I can afford) are beautifully written and passionately argued.

“Human cultures throughout history have been the milieux of men and women, not of biological males and females. Human cultures, for this reason, cannot be sexist. To interpret them as sexist is to unsettle their foundations by obscuring the mode of being of their people.

Just amplifying the seeming virtue of sexual equality undermines native cultures, wrongfooting their people and readying them for subjugation by technical solutions.”

It is biologically inescapable that males with good hunter genes tended to be good at bringing home big feasts of meat, growing strong and mating with the healthiest females, and thus tending to father more strong, healthy, successful hunters and prime females. The less fit didn’t make it into the gene pool to the same extent. Cultural roles based on a sensible division of labour flowed from these sources.

In a land blessed with many native crops, fruits, etc perhaps less hunting was needed to sustain life and the females picked up a spear too, creating a different cultural idea of men, and women. The latter still birthed those sturdy children though.

Inherited wealth (which can be hoarded in ways that meat cannot) and success at taking more than you need, obscure all this in the hegemonic culture of the present day, having spooled forward many many generations.

But culture cannot fully obfuscate all this biology. Yes: Irishmen and Irishwomen, are similar to but not the same as Northumbrian men and the women of Wessex (for example). Striking out the ‘biological’ nouns is to step too far outside of the biological world. Determinism feels more honest and real than the clever trick of the technocratic transhumanist agenda. Erasing biology and substituting symbols and algorithms cannot fully succeed unless all men and women are rendered sterile . . . see PD James’s Children Of Men for a vision of that world.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 9, 2024 6:56 AM

A good piece. Well expressed.

The capacity to change one’s sex and subsequently one’s pronouns is a natural consequence of evolutionist thinking.

If one actually believes (as many do) that we’re just the product of a random explosion in space and billions of years of blind mutations, then what actually is the difference between a man and a woman anyway?

Just a different arrangement of atoms, which can equally well be arranged in a different manner. “Move fast and break things” as Silicon Valley’s motto states. The lego blocks can make their transition if they so wish and who are you to say otherwise? Male-Female ‘Equality’ becoming the equality of arrangements of inanimate matter – a lego-block-male not being superior or inferior to a lego-block-female.

By contrast, if the Universe was deliberately Created and men and women are/were intentionally designed to be different but complementary to one another, then that gives a completely different perspective on sexuality. We were always meant to be the way we are and you mess with God’s design at your peril.

Which isn’t to be completely anti Change (‘Conservatism’ taken to extreme) as some interpret it, but it’s to advocate “worthwhile Change from a fixed starting point”, as opposed to “any kinda change from no real starting point” (backward ‘progressive’ thinking taken to extreme). Anti some changes, but not anti others. Subsequent changes being in line with a view of ‘Providence’ (or directed change) and not just a random “we do it because we can”.

This then avoids an eternal war of Progressives vs Conservatives. A war of two flawed perspectives that Technocracy can indeed take advantage of through “divide and conquer”.

Hence, to properly oppose this potential Technocratic dystopia, it’s necessary to get to the roots and oppose Evolutionist thinking per se; defeat the 200-year old lie. Defeating Technocracy by chopping at the root of the tree, rather than chopping at the branches. And when there’s general agreement we can once again more move on to consider haute culture.

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 9, 2024 8:51 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

Time is a human concept. We invented it as a point of reference.

Show me a living breathing example of the past or the future. You can’t.
Only now exists.
Evolution is simply Life’s, or God’s way if you prefer, of continuous creativity.

That’s why we’re here, on Earth.
To Love, create and enjoy.

The Ghouls who rule have lost all sense and feeling of creativity. It has been buried under their learned ignorance, so they flail about using violence to fill their emptiness.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 9, 2024 10:00 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Thanks. Wouldn’t generally disagree. Continuous creativity is the essence of life.

Just that some forms of creativity may be better than others. And that ‘continuous creativity’ may be best facilitated by a belief in a Grand Creator, whom we subsequently copy (to some limited extent).

Also a good point about how loss of creativity (or being completely anti-change) leads inexorably to violence (to defend the status quo ad infinitum). Wouldn’t disagree with that.

Does time exist beyond human notions of it? I tend to think it does, although it’s a good philosophical question. Planets and stars move without our human intervention and yet it’s we humans that give such events significance.

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 9, 2024 11:29 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

As the Buddhists would say, albeit in slightly different terms: ‘The Grand Creator is as close as your breath’:
https://www.headless.org/experiments-home.htm

Cloudster
Cloudster
Mar 8, 2024 9:05 PM

This is excellent – a good point well made as they say.

sandy
sandy
Mar 8, 2024 8:49 PM

“‘Progressive’ hyperinflation of the perception of sexual inequality is the enemy of cultures and the friend of technocracies.

“And the ‘conservative’ push-back against it, which insists that there are only two sexes, only males and females, in fact buttresses technocratic control as actively as does the ‘progressive’ narrative.”

I think the author has missed what the Howard below has identified as the ruling class’, as needed, “straitjacket”. The straitjacket is always bracketed by a false binary. This multi false binary, men vs woman, identity vs self-identity, equality vs inequality, biology vs culture, hides the root false binary: individual autonomy and freedom of thought, speech and action vs state dictated behavior. It is freedom vs slavery.

On this International Women’s Day, I utterly and totally agree with women demanding economic and social status equality in public life. No human being or institution should have authority over another to decide the conditions of their life. The last 5000 years have been an age of rulers vs obedients. Kings, royalty and the rich over the poor, the peon, the serf, the slave. Then came the FAKE modern republic version of the above, FAKE appointed rulers over FAKE consenting ruled. In the 21st century, Humanity’s 5000 year old Rat Class yearns for the old days of absolute control that is slipping from their grasp. They have assumed a Bad Parent rule over Bad Children, dictating not just some, but all behaviors to make sure the peons stay out of their lane. What the author points out here is merely an aspect of the new total straitjacket the ruling class has laid out for us to put on, to consent to.

Humanity is on the cusp of assuming the freedom to be autonomous free human beings in a rulerless, anti-authoritarian world of self respecting adults in an Adult society. Individuals must have free choice in everything, without laws, dictates or mandates over behavior, thought or speech.

Emily Durron
Emily Durron
Mar 8, 2024 7:55 PM

I got nowhere near understanding this article, which was written by somebody from Dublin that knows nothing about Ireland outside Dublin.

The first thing you need to know about Ireland is that the lazy racism of the population is universal. Waaaay beyond anything you would encounter in other western European countries, but similar to Romania and Bulgaria. Not as bad as in Ukraine.

Secondly, given that you have written what I am about to quote, then you are denying the long, noble, tortuous and incomplete road to female equality:

We are not biological beings. We are cultural beings. That is what has made us human. The assault on our culturedness by the promotion of sexual equality is a direct attack on our humanness.

I think you can piss off.

May Hem
May Hem
Mar 8, 2024 10:05 PM
Reply to  Emily Durron

Emily, perhaps the author meant the corruption of the women’s liberation movement, and did not mean to criticize the early aims of the important and crucial women’s liberation movement.

Like all the fine ‘movements’ which ordinary people have started, when their groups grow and begin to have some influence and power, the corruptors move in. e.g. greenpeace, friends of the earth, the greens political party, and many others.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Mar 8, 2024 10:08 PM
Reply to  Emily Durron

I agree with your point re the quote, but you should fulfill and explain what you mean by female equality?

There is only one fight: The social fight!
Meaning all particular “rights” or particular “equality” dont exist other than the universal.
Men and women is one and have the same social struggle.

Howard
Howard
Mar 8, 2024 4:30 PM

Very very true that all societies have been gender based…because all societies have straightjacketed their members into rigidly defined prototypes of what will best benefit those societies (i.e., will best benefit the “rulers” of those societies).

When the ruling class needed bodies for both war and commerce, women were defined as mothers, whose primary function was to birth and raise offspring. As the ruling class came to need fewer bodies, women were (if begrudgingly) defined as independent entities fully capable of joining the working force.

Now, when the ruling class needs almost no bodies for its enrichment, women are being re-defined yet again – this time as non-existent entities who might just as easily be male as female.

The one thing, however, which has held true throughout all the gender shifts has been the straightjacket.

Sunface Jack
Sunface Jack
Mar 8, 2024 1:15 PM

Ireland has been a target for destruction for many years. Its a disgraceful development. We were always proud to have Irish blood. My great grandfather was Andrew Trimble of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons.

I Exist Without Consent
I Exist Without Consent
Mar 8, 2024 12:44 PM

There is no ‘transgender programme’ – only trans people. Just as there was never a ‘gay agenda’. The same violent rhetoric that was used during the 1980s is being recycled. Why? Because it’s a successful divide-and-rule strategy that shields the ruling class by preventing class consciousness.

Trans people who’ve transitioned (at great personal cost) are so rare that most people have never met one. This is the genius of the ruling class’s current strategy – it means that most people learn everything they know about trans people from the Murdoch press.

It was a revelation to me when I met and chatted with a trans woman at work several years ago. She was the butt of office jokes and ridicule but after chatting with her for ten minutes I realised that she was human like everyone else. All preconceptions and anxieties evaporated. I had been lied to. Prior to that, the only other trans person I knew of was a trans woman who killed herself because she couldn’t face the transition process. It is ironic that she looked very feminine and dainty but she died slowly over several days from a paracetamol overdose.

Capitalism is in crisis, so the ruling class media are working overtime to scapegoat – but it’s much worse than that –

A Handmaid’s Tale future is planned for the whole world. We should be afraid. This proposed world of strict sex-defined roles will feel more akin to a prison than a utopia. See The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. Men must wear beards.. women must obey their husbands and remain quiet at all times unless spoken to.. dissent will be punished, etc. This is Christian fascism and the only obstacle in the ruling class’s way are LGBT people – hence why they’re under attack.

mgeo
mgeo
Mar 9, 2024 5:28 AM

-There is no conclusive evidence that “gender reassignment” benefits the subjects -US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2016
-Every subject of such surgery is likely to require hospital visits thereafter for life. -Jonas Alexis 2023
-One cause of the poor quality of related research is the loss of contact with many subjects. -Hayes Inc. 2014
-10 to 15 years after the surgery, death from suicide is 19.1 times higher among the subjects than among comparable peers, while death from neoplasm or heart disease is 2.0-2.5 times higher. -Cecilia Dhejne et al. 2011

I Exist Without Consent
I Exist Without Consent
Mar 9, 2024 9:38 AM
Reply to  mgeo

And the suicide rate has nothing to do with the discrimination that trans people face in daily life.. Have you ever met a trans person by the way? I doubt it. Nothing has changed since 1930s Germany. Humans are primitive creatures that will hate whoever the ruling class teaches them to hate. Hence Off-Guardian’s role. Not surprised by my downvote.

There have always been trans people and gay people throughout human history. They existed in ancient Egypt. Native Americans called trans people ‘two spirits’. What we have now is a toxic remnant of white Western colonialism that wants the Handmaid’s Tale, or Project 2025 as it’s now called.

judith
judith
Mar 9, 2024 12:37 PM

THANK YOU!
This whole “trans agenda” conveniently erupted over the past few years. Mixed in withe covid nightmare, Ukraine, political divide, and every other made-up, divisive agenda.
No one was up in arms about the “trans agenda” in 2020.

It astounds me that so many, most, of the people on this side of the fence (medical freedom) have been so virulent on the attacks against transexual people.
How and why do peole buy into this obvious maneuver to yet again divide and conquer.
I know two trans persons, who, at great personal cost (like many of us over the past four years) chose to live their own truth. In spite of the that cost, they are very happy with their choice.
They are not dressing as drag queens reading story books to kindergarden kids.
They are not grooming the world’s youth.

All of the hoopla about injecting gender changing hormones, and all the rest of it that is in our faces every day is MANUFACTURED to hate a new group of people.
Transgender are living their lives the same as we are. And they have that right.
And if some transgender people regret their choice to transition that is not a blanket denunciation of all who make the choice.

How someone chooses to live their truth is a personal freedom.

Whatever one might think about altering one’s gender, to not recognize what is going on with this push to vilify yet another group is really astonishing.

I am very disappointed in the alternative media journalists who have jumped on the bandwagon.

In the past four years I have not run into one transgender person who told me to pull the mask over my nose, get vaxxed or I would die, get vaxxed or I could not enter the building; that i was a selfish, murderous, infectious, deluded, tin foil hatter.

And i will still come back to the irony that it is OK to change your hair color (with dangerous chemicals that harm the environment), slice and dice any and all body parts – eyes, ears, forehead, nose, lips, chins, cheeks, neck, breasts, stomach, butt, thighs, vagina, penis, knees, feet, as long as it’s a heterosexual.

Apparently it’s OK with God to change some of God’s perfect work, but not all.

KarenEliot
KarenEliot
Mar 9, 2024 1:39 PM
Reply to  judith

Those are excellent points.

Two colleagues in a work team I was part of, of seven members, transitioned male to female in the late 2010s. Quite a while before the madly exaggerated divide-and-rule, flags and logos and pronouns nonsense was yelled, repeatedly, at us.

I would certainly argue that for two out of seven people to discover their gender dysphoria, both inside an eighteen-month period (approximately) there must have been mimesis. In other words, person two (formerly presenting as a gay male) found the transition easier in the wake of the journey of person one (formerly Andy, latterly Amy).

Similarly there is mimesis at work, but also something much more sinister, in the apparent prevalence, or increased visibility, of trans people who seem to be so astonishingly similar in their exaggerated flamboyance, flippancy and dislikability. TikTok etc are the vehicle for elite tactics that I Exist Without Consent skewers very accurately.

divide-and-rule strategy that shields the ruling class by preventing class consciousness.

Why all the reflexive downvotes . . ?

Lizzyh7
Lizzyh7
Mar 9, 2024 6:01 PM
Reply to  judith

The problem is not trans adults who made their decisions of their own volition. The problem is teaching small children to question their own sexuality before they even know what sexuality really is. The other problem, the elephant in the room if you will, is the relentless pushing of trans as somehow being the answer for all that adolescent angst, an angst that is indeed produced by the very same capitalist profit driven owners of this world who do indeed seek to divide and conquer.

I have NO issue at all with someone deciding, FOR THEMSELVES, that they wish to transition their gender. What I do have a problem with is telling kids that you must be another gender if you like to do things that other gender supposedly desires to do, so you then must submit to a life long program of drugs and surgeries. And if you aren’t willing to do that, then there is either something wrong with you, or your parents are outright abusers and the state should come in and save you. Please.

As to the suicidal issues, do we not think all of those miraculous “anti-depressants” might have something to do with that? We know damned well those things cause that from the commercials some of us see on the boob tube every single day. And of course those are prescribed for those undergoing gender angst, or whatever other angst the owners can gin up so they can “cure” it. Depressed? Take a pill. Overweight? Take a pill.

There is definitely an “agenda” behind the trans push, and it has NOTHING to do with equality or caring about the real feelings of real people, including trans people.

As for the changing hair colors and plastic surgeries, that too seems to be part of the initial softening up of the idea that there is something inherently WRONG with being human and not being as “beautiful” as one could be. That most definitely plays into the profit motive and always has.

And at the end of the day, NONE of this is really the fault of trans people, NONE. The pushing and manufactured confusion, the violence and the endless arguing and hate is all brought to us by the same people who’ve been doing that for eons. Quit blaming those who see some of the problems with these things but can’t quite yet articulate just why those things seem to be part of something bigger, and realize that even “those people” who you so easily label as simply hateful bigots, may indeed have a point.

judith
judith
Mar 10, 2024 3:50 AM
Reply to  Lizzyh7

I did not refer to anyone as hateful bigots. Absolutely did not.
Everyone is free to believe what they wish.

I only voiced my own opinion about what I consider a huge manufactured agenda to divide, and my utter astonishment and disappointment that people who I would have thought would see THROUGH that agenda are buying it.

And part of that stupid ridiculous agenda is mainstream media making everyone think that transgender people are running around telling all the kids to question their gender and sex. I think that is just nonsense. It’s like making everyone think that a virus killed millions of people all over the world all of a sudden and if you don’t wear three masks it will kill you, too.

I’m not blaming anyone but the entities who are spewing this propaganda.

And by the way, I have no objection to reconstructive surgery. To each their own. I just find it hilariously ironic that not being content with exactly how God made you, and doing something about it, is OK as long as it is heterosexual.

Geo Martin
Geo Martin
Mar 12, 2024 2:16 PM

Is this the best AI can produce?

red lester
red lester
Mar 8, 2024 11:48 AM

Off topic, but the NHS are going to keep your personal data in case there is a batflu enquiry:

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/high-risk-shielded-patients/shielded-patient-list-transparency-notice

Note that the shielded patient list got no advantage. It just got a lot of letters about jabs. It did not, for example, give benefits or pay NI to those whose work had been closed.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 8, 2024 11:25 AM

On the topic of the transgender programme I’ve been looking in in the inimitable Kellie-Jay Keen and especially her reviews of how this programme has been smuggled in on unbelievably crass entertainment productions. Here is a hilarious guide:

https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker/status/1765754841278844995

And here is a pertinent comment on the connection between “infotainment” and legislation:

https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker/status/1766034593138749646

“A work of fiction influenced the making of the GRA. How strange!”

It is of course not strange at all. The fiction is supplied by Coronation Street, a soap which can be left to grind out its cyclic anodyne banalities uninterrupted for most of the time. But clearly something a little more directive was required as we approached the millennium. The great cull was in the pipeline and ready for its launch.

The trans angle was one of the more unlikely programmes owing to its sheer stupidity. But never underestimate the effect of carefully modulated sentimentality or the gullibility of the soap viewer.

Though it should never be automatically assumed that the viewers are as compliant as the media portrays them to be, considering that the media obviously has an interest in boosting its achievements. And we should certainly never trust these frequent self-congratulatory “documentaries” on “how our tv programmes reflect our changing attitudes” when the influence goes in the opposite direction.

In any case, the entire theatre of “helpless” and “vulnerable” trans people started its fermentation here. And Kellie-Jay has perceptively noted how this soap representation of a “trans women” was craftily played by an actual woman.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 8, 2024 11:07 AM

What is so intensely stupid about all this modern nonsense is that the concept of being ‘transphobic’ is centre stage, but the concept of trans-sexuals being violently ‘hetero-phobic’ is cancelled by the media.

I don’t care if someone is trans-sexual, what I do care about is a very small minority of deeply non-median people trying to say that the vast majority must completely change their ways of life to make trans-sexuals feel powerful. It’s not about them feeling wanted or needed, it’s entirely about them feeling powerful.

There’s also something very, very different about trans-sexual ‘women’ i.e. men who have transitioned into being women as compared to real women. The genetics is irreversibly different as there is no way of replacing every cell’s Y chromosome with another X. No way at all. There’s also no way that a body soaked in testosterone for many years can be the same as one soaked in estrogens.

As soon as trans-sexuals say that that true statement is ‘transphobic’, they have demonstrated that they are intolerant, lacking in basic understanding and playing a deeply hypocritical game to try and acquire power.

If trans-sexuals equate acknowledgement of biological differences as an implication of inferior ‘value’, then they need counselling to right their emotional wiring dysfunctionality.

No-one is saying that the intrinsic human value of trans-sexuals is reduced by their different reality, but what trans-sexuals can’t say about the vast majority of normies is that they should somehow be ashamed of being attracted to the opposite sex, being driven to breed with the opposite sex and committed to bringing up the next generation as loving parents.

By entering into a transitioning process, trans-sexuals are basically saying they don’t want to breed. Unless of course, they transition at a more advanced age, after they have actually bred.

It seems strange to me that people whose animal instincts led them to breed normally then claim that their whole emotional wiring contradicts that.

But who am I to trump real-life experiences of others, eh?

Howard
Howard
Mar 9, 2024 5:12 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

What exactly is it that trans-sexuals want the rest of us to change our lives to become or to believe? And, damn it, why have I never been approached by a trans-sexual to change into something more to their liking? Is it because I’m getting old so I don’t count?

Aha! So that’s where you and McGeorge can get them: Age Discrimination!

davetherave
davetherave
Mar 8, 2024 11:00 AM

When I was a weelad,

The Irish (who was being invaded by the British)
where called Terrorists.
This was pre Moslems, Chicom, Palastians, Russians, anti vaccers era.

Do you remember those IRA 30 minutes telephone warnings to a certain phone which warned of a Terror attack..?

The news that night. like a scene from Casualty Tv series. (ER it is called in the states).
Blue lights, Fire brigade, Sirens, People screaming, Ambulances.

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 3:29 PM
Reply to  davetherave

Yes; and all settled by wonderful Mo Mowlam, a woman Labour Minister, who unfortunately died of cancer and did not get her just credit for healing one of those lingering bloody sores caused by ethnic divisiveness.

news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hi › uk_news › politics › 4126986.stm
‘Remarkable’ Mo Mowlam dies at 55 – BBC News
“‘Remarkable’ Mo Mowlam dies at 55. Former Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam has died, aged 55. She was admitted to hospital following a fall at home …”

Edwige
Edwige
Mar 8, 2024 9:20 AM

“In 1990, Ireland elected Mary Robinson as its first woman president.”
Mary Robinson, wife of the second highest Freemason in Ireland. Ireland was the second nation in the world where Freemasonry openly declared itself after England. The parliament is situated in a “former” masonic lodge. Irish Freemasonry is organised on a whole island basis – no partition for them! C18th Freemasonry was full of Irish Catholics. They claimed not to know that Freemasonry and Catholicism were supposed enemies. The United Irishmen who launched the 1798 Rebellion were freemasons. The rebellion failed abysmally and 30,000 poor Irish ended up dead. Funny how that sort of thing kept happening to them. The next “great” Irish leader Daniel O’Connell was also a Freemason. See Christopher Fogarty for the real story of the so-called potato famine.

As for transgenderism, the Scarlet Blake case has been exposing some of the realities behind the term. The body in the UK that makes it into a reality is the Tavistock Clinic, it doesn’t “just happen”. Tavistock? Hasn’t that name cropped up somewhere else?….

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 8:22 AM

Ireland to vote in ‘women in the home’ referendums amid apathy and confusion

What appeared to be relatively low-stakes amendments could turn into embarrassing defeat for government

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent, The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/ireland-to-vote-in-women-in-the-home-referendums-amid-apathy-and-confusion

Anthony Murphy
Anthony Murphy
Mar 8, 2024 7:45 AM

Interesting context here is Sinn Fein and the Provos. As they emerged to pick up the gauntlet of Patrick Pearse and use ‘armed resistance’ against British rule in 1970 – thereby squashing the civil rights movement….they proceeded to embody Catholic resistance and ‘Irish’ identity. Move on to 2024 and Sinn Fien have made it policy that in the 8/3 referendum says ‘no’ they will re-run when in Government until the Irish say ‘yes’. Whatever happened?

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 8:27 AM
Reply to  Anthony Murphy

[If] “the 8/3 referendum says ‘no’ they will re-run [it] until the Irish say ‘yes’.”

Sounds like they will get on well with the EU Commissian, who have the same notion of what a referendum should mean.

Zbyszek
Zbyszek
Mar 8, 2024 7:35 AM

One of the feature of Cultural Revolution in China started by Mao, was to blur difference between men and women. Same cloths, same hair cut, no distinctions. When ppl are “the same”, they loose interest to create strong, mutual relationships.

As Mathias Desmet says, once a person loose real relationship to others, it is ready to create relationship with a party, idea, guru, state, dictator or a cult.

So breaking relationships is important in order to create anything that is invented on the top and must be imposed to down.

The second important role is to push ppl, to deny their own senses and internally agree that the reality is what they are being told that it is.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Mar 8, 2024 7:13 AM

The author asks why Ireland is being subjected to technocratic meddling?

I would suggest that it is one of the testbed nations selected around the world for social experimentation.

It seems that population size and population density are two of the keys, the other being physical isolation (being an island).

Good examples – during the Plandemic – were Australia and New Zealand, both countries with small populations and very low population densities which are also islands. One could not leave easily and in both cases were locked down from the outside world. Canada another country subject to draconian measures also has a small population with a very low population density.

At the other end of the spectrum was Sweden where lockdowns were not used but it has a generally compliant, trusting population, again with a small population and a low population density.

Then there was Sri Lanka and the disastrous switch over to organic farming more or less overnight through the banning of chemical fertilizers. A country largely self sufficient in food saw crop yields collapse in a matter of months. Although, it has a relatively high population density, it is an island with only around 23 million inhabitants. Perfect, to test out the effects and reaction of the population due to the creation of economic hardship, food and fuel shortages.

On to Ireland: Ireland among EU countries is the only island nation (even if it shares a border with Northern Ireland which is part of the UK) and has the lowest population density excluding the Baltic states and other former Eastern bloc countries.

Up until the late 1990’s its population remained more or less stable at 3 – 3.5 million but has grown significantly due to immigration to reach the current 5 million. It also was until 1990’s more or less a homogenous country with a strong religious (Catholic) underpinning to its society. It was a society based on family values, tradition and ‘conservatism’ .

Therefore, Ireland had a good mix of the social and cultural values that are an anathema to the technocratic controllers. An ideal case for them test out different strategies to break the nation’s spirit. Strategies that, if successful, will no doubt be rolled out to other countries with larger populations and population densities.

Also, because its constitution requires referenda on certain issues, it can be analysed to see how ‘nudging’ effects voter outcomes.

There is a ‘Right to Housing Bill’ that has to be put to the Irish electorate that is currently on hold. This bill if it becomes law will give all Irish residents (not just citizens) the right to a home. It refers to homes as ‘housing stock’, the implication being that these are the state’s assets rather than private property. The bill will be used to requisition second and holiday homes for the ‘greater good’. It will then be most likely extended to spare bedrooms. Again, a perfect testbed, to then be rolled out across other nations in the West suffering – like Ireland where it is particularly acute – under the extreme burden of housing shortages, high rents and property prices.

Ireland is certainly a country to watch carefully.

rechenmacher
rechenmacher
Mar 8, 2024 10:55 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Well spotted. A test bed indeed. The smoking ban in pubs and bars etc. was first rolled out in Ireland and Italy. I had somehow hoped the Irish would go along with this but I was wrong. (I quit smoking more that 30 years ago and had no cards in this game but I hate State sponsored Puritanism.)

Michael
Michael
Mar 8, 2024 10:08 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

So’s Gaza.

May Hem
May Hem
Mar 8, 2024 10:23 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Good points, RR.

KarenEliot
KarenEliot
Mar 9, 2024 1:44 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

While Canada has the Francophone population, all of those testbed countries are English speaking. It must really piss off the WEF (or whoever is steering this whole thing) that they couldn’t enrol South Africa. I’m not sure they’ve stopped trying though.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Mar 9, 2024 4:25 PM
Reply to  KarenEliot

Yes, I too had noticed the English language commonality. All are “Anglo” countries, except the Republic of Ireland where the people tend to consider themselves Celtic.

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 7:10 AM

“And, in between delegating the task to the usual institutions, they consult the usual guides – technocratic bibles – on mothering, parenting, weaning, toddlers, teething…, scrambling for expert advice on what they used to know.”

When our first child was born my wife and I consulted the Spock Bible. Strikes me now that we might have done that because we had migrated 6,000 miles away from the child’s two grandmothers. Part of modern life.

A propos “the Irish losing their way” after gaining Independence, there is an old saying: Be careful what you wish for: you might get it. Clare Daly is a valuable asset to Irish (and EU) politics but she speaks to an empty House. There is a disconnect between the Freedom that people think they are yearning for and the Organization that people think will cultivate the garden of freedom.

mgeo
mgeo
Mar 9, 2024 6:17 AM
Reply to  NickM

Another old saying: It takes a village to raise a child. The manipulators had other priorities, such as clearing people from rural areas, getting more women into the workforce and reducing everyone’s wages.

– Until the 1940s, Western parents spanked or scolded their children to enforce disciple and keep them from becoming spoilt or uncivil. Then experts convinced the parents to show only affection. Purportedly, spanking makes children more aggressive, and criticism destroys their self-esteem. Are today’s children less aggressive, more self-confident or happier? If anything, the opposite is true. Perhaps human nature is more robust than most people give it credit for, and children resist whatever their parents do to them. There are indications that aggression is partly driven by genes. – Judith Harris 2000
– Beyond their genes, parents have no influence on a child’s personality, intelligence, or behaviour outside the home. By evolutionary design, offspring demand more than they need. In trying to meet such demands, modern parents exhaust themselves and loose control. -Judith Harris 2006

NickM
NickM
Mar 11, 2024 5:39 AM
Reply to  mgeo

From a trip to Holland by Jerome K Jerome, circa 1890:

Dutch houses are surrounded by dikes, and there is great danger of children falling in. I asked a Dutchman what emergency measures are taken when a child falls into a dike.

“We pull them out”.

“I mean, what measures do you take to ensure they don’t fall in again”.

“We spank them”.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Mar 8, 2024 6:38 AM

Its difficult to extract what you really wanna say. But maybe its the same song as it has been for too many years: https://youtu.be/Ku7cdorMa78 😉

There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.
Then I heard the wind
Calling from over the sea
Saying, “Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”

This land I go to when I’m tired
And need to see and walk in green.
The people who can laugh and drink
And see things others have not seen.
Then I heard the wind
Calling from over the sea,
Saying, “Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”

There is another side to this pure land,
A side of blood and guilt and pain
A side of enemy and friend
And sorrow at the hearth side stain.
Then I heard the wind
Crying from over the sea,
Saying, “Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”

There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.
Then I heard the wind
Calling from over the sea,
Saying, “Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”
“Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free ?”

bob
bob
Mar 8, 2024 3:53 AM

the Irish as well as the Scots and Welsh ‘went’ a long time ago and the English can’t even play cricket anymore – Cabal 100 not out – the Rest nil

Paul Prichard
Paul Prichard
Mar 8, 2024 1:15 AM

Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2024-03-06. CV jab Can Affect Menstrual Cycle- “I hope we don’t discover something really bad”, widespread infertility https://twitter.com/paulrprichard/status/1765520575819075663

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 7:27 AM
Reply to  Paul Prichard

Not surprising to find that injection of Covid-19 Spike Protein RNA can disrupt the Menstrual Cycle and cause infertility. Because Con-19 is a GMO Spike Protein which was genetically engineered in a Bio-warfare Lab to attack Human Blood Vessels. The whole process of Mammalian Child Bearing depends on the ability of the female uterus to generate blood vessels with which to nourish her fertilized egg.

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 7, 2024 11:32 PM

“There is no such thing as society” proclaimed Thatcher.

Presciently and ominously she was right.
Especially when all the foundations of our society are removed. One by one.

DavidF
DavidF
Mar 8, 2024 6:21 AM
Reply to  Johnny

But Cameron had his Big Society – Believe In Government !!

nima
nima
Mar 7, 2024 9:44 PM

Referendum, really.
Kind government woke up one day and said hey you the elector people have spoken we will do a Referendum for you.

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 7:14 AM
Reply to  nima

Was it not to the Irish that a Brussel Eurocrat first said: We shall keep giving you a referendum until you give us the answer we want?

May Hem
May Hem
Mar 7, 2024 8:50 PM

What an absolutely brilliant article! It gives me much to think about.

The Irish government is to hold a referendum, in part to gain support for its removal of the terms ‘woman’ and ‘mother’”.

This is the hidden purpose of the ‘great reset’ – to destroy the power of Women and Nature, to replace it with a world of control by machines. The enemy of the frightened cabal are human feelings, intuition, creativity, fun and real diversity. They want to emasculate both men and women and somehow pervert Nature.

I knew immediately, years ago, that the hype about women having ‘penis envy’ was just the opposite, a fear in some men of women’s power to give birth. These frightened men want to create babies with machines. They will continue to fail but with much destruction and chaos along the way.

brian of nazareth
brian of nazareth
Mar 8, 2024 6:32 AM
Reply to  May Hem

As humans become more robotic and robots/AI attempt to become more “human”, clear distinctions of gender are being deliberately eroded. As robots/AI do not have a gender, they will more easily merge with a human population where gender distinctions have been removed. I agree that there is push to pervert the natural state of humans and my response to this is to sing, dance, tell jokes, do random acts of creativity, talk of love and passion, play music, grow and cook good food, etc.. basically, do stuff that makes us truly human.

Raoullo
Raoullo
Mar 8, 2024 11:41 AM

All that narrative about ‘singularity event’ and merging with machine is nonsense. Perhaps Kurzweil and the Proponents of transhumanism don’t know it, but this seems to only point to the extinction of humanity. You don’t replace or improve on the perfection of natural design with approximate patchwork of synthetic and biological material! There’s no evidence anything thus produced could survive in vivo for any length of time!

brian of nazareth
brian of nazareth
Mar 8, 2024 1:11 PM
Reply to  Raoullo

While the actual fusion of humans and tech may be a kurzweil/harari fantasy, many humans are already behaving like robots. Daily life is increasingly defined by interactions with high tech systems and most people have a computer in their pocket. So one could argue that a merging of humans with tech is already underway, “we” just don’t see it as such.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Mar 8, 2024 11:20 PM

I would turn it around and say merging tech with humans. Fusion of tech with humans.
Because it is some kind of a cold steel rape of warm blooded humans.

And when humans behave like robots, the IT folks can claim why do we need humans here if they cant compete with a simple robot, but just follow orders from a stupid robot.

Raoullo
Raoullo
Mar 9, 2024 7:22 AM

There’s still a fine line between adopting robotic behaviour, using computational tools and actually ‘merging’ man and machines. If one’s after efficient automated behaviour and increased productivity above all else, it really makes no sense to be encumbered with a human element at all. This is why, I surmise the goal would rather be to eliminate as many humans as possible, as oppose to augmenting and comforting them.

ariel
ariel
Mar 8, 2024 7:38 PM

Robots are not trying to do anything. They are being controlled to do it, just like the robotic humans. And ‘yes’ the reflection of each other as the two types are pushed together.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Mar 8, 2024 11:22 PM
Reply to  ariel

The few robots I have met, have all been liberals. Dont try to tell me they are not up to something, they are!

May Hem
May Hem
Mar 8, 2024 9:54 PM

Couldn’t agree more brian.

NickM
NickM
Mar 8, 2024 7:34 AM
Reply to  May Hem

“These frightened men want to create babies with machines.”

Well said. Rightly art thou called May Hem, for only by mayhem shall we correct those frightened men (and women).

May Hem
May Hem
Mar 8, 2024 9:59 PM
Reply to  NickM

Thank you NickM. Its important to remember that the small number of men (and some programmed women) who are trying to impose their plot, are really terrified of the power of women and nature, and all that is natural.

How pathetic they are!

KarenEliot
KarenEliot
Mar 9, 2024 1:53 PM
Reply to  May Hem

This trope is reinforced, of course, by the notion that the planet is turning on us with global warming/climate crisis or whatever it is called this month. I don’t deny a great deal of evidence suggests this really is the case but there’s evidence and there is evidence. The fact that every natural calamity (and much besides e.g. forest fires) is the stuff of headlines and hysteria and shrieking is a pretty big clue. Are we being conditioned for a future existence as Morlocks..?

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Mar 9, 2024 7:18 PM
Reply to  KarenEliot

Would this not be depending of ourselves. Being conditioned. Being dragged by the nose. Being the victims?