House of Eratosthenes

How she says this stuff, is more interesting to me than what she says. Things like “I’ve had the work reviewed by people who are experts — or at least extremely knowledgeable — in biology and genetics, and I’ve received confirmation that it all works out.” It’s like you can make certain things happen just by writing a manifesto or two about it, maybe shooting a YouTube video, and being really, really, really, super-duper sure about it.

But of course, if it’s all going to happen for sure, there wouldn’t be any need to do anything.

Militant leftism has so many identifiable attributes to it that aren’t found in the dictionaries. Manifesto-writing, conclusion-first-and-learning-last, the idea of guiding reality by being super-sure of one thing and absolutely rejecting some other thing. The identification of these special, loathed classes — men, in this case — and targeting them for reduction, breeding-out, loss of influence, or just good old-fashioned extinction.

I watched this and a bit of some other videos attached to the account, and it comes across more as performance art than an actual movement. The incongruously pretty, feminine, southern belle persona of the speaker, the highly stylized effects at the beginning of this video and throughout other videos, the artistic color palette, slick production values all combine make me think it’s not intended to be taken literally — it’s an elaborate put-on, like the famous lonelygirl video series.
- cloudbuster | 08/19/2014 @ 06:39
Well we know she can’t be completely serious, since as I pointed out there is a logical incongruity in these many statements that it’s definitely going to happen and don’t waste your time fighting it. But, the same is true of global warming; why emit all the carbon for sake of raising awareness, when everyone is already aware. It’s difficult to assess if an advocate of an idea takes the idea seriously, when the advocate of the idea doesn’t take seriousness itself seriously.

Oh well. Read up, and form your own opinion…
- mkfreeberg | 08/19/2014 @ 06:49
Oh, they’re serious about “raising awareness,” all right — because “raising awareness” allows one to preen and pose and pat oneself on the back for one’s superior moral sensibility, all without having to, you know, do anything.

[One of my great joys in life comes at the many “AIDS Awareness” activities we still have around here, because this is a college town and the kids all still think it’s 1992 (the professors, Marxists all, think it’s 1892). I tell them, “yo, I’m as aware of AIDS as I can possibly be. And since I don’t do needle drugs, don’t have unprotected gay sex, and didn’t have a blood transfusion in the late 1980s, I can honestly say my risk factors are near zero. What, specifically, do you want me to do to combat AIDS?” Never once have I received a coherent answer].

I will note for the record, though, that “X is inevitable; we must all do everything we can to bring about X” is as old as Marx. His opponents, and Lenin’s, had jolly good fun pointing out that their theories proclaimed the Revolution inevitable, so what was the point of living like a dirty commie? And then Lenin shot them all, and now nobody asks that question, but they never did get around to answering it….
- Severian | 08/19/2014 @ 07:12
It’s kind of painful to read that site. You know who she reminds me of? Stefan Molyneux — perhaps that’s it. It seemed like parody to me, because, like him, she is totally engulfed in this worldview of hers and has an elevated sense of her own importance and the inevitability and urgency of her cause.

What makes me think that, at least at some level, it’s a parody is videos like Kill all men and Why I Oughta that just seem too self-consciously over-the-top to be real.
- cloudbuster | 08/19/2014 @ 07:16
How is what this bubble-headed-bleached-blonde espousing any different than what Hitler or Himmler put in motion?
- bammit | 08/19/2014 @ 08:43
I am wondering how much of this (All men must die) is driven by fear. Women need Men a lot more then Men need Women. Note the many, many articles about “men-children” etc. Lots of worries about men not playing the game, none (that I have seen) about women refusing to play the game. Lots more men hermits and homeless, etc. Women seem to need community in a way that Men do not. Which means that it would be much easier to turn women into dumb (unable to speak) breeding stock then it would be to do so to men (calming down male animals to make them better pets involves removing certain parts, yes? You can have a pet or you can have breeding stock……). And turning women into pets by “pre-birth” manipulation would still be kinder then what the women have been doing to babies…… Perhaps the women saying these things to forestall the Kzinti future they have made likely?
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 08/19/2014 @ 08:49
The nice production values don’t mean that this person isn’t 100% in earnest, cloudbuster. It may be “performance art” but the performer may well believe it as fervently as a Baptist believes in Jesus, but still throws some theatricality into the altar call.

Or, of course, you could be completely right.

There’s one side of this current cultural divide that cares a lot more about the truth of the message than the other – it’s an inevitable side effect of their having sold out (literally in many cases) to relativism and Zeitgeist. It makes it difficult to pin down exactly what any of these manifestos mean. Or, to say it more accurately, when you show the manifestors what their manifestos do, in fact, mean, they reject it, and turn out to be quite as deluded as someone who thinks that they are free to add two and two while refusing to get four.

As George MacDonald said to the narrator in CS Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”, trying to understand the mindset of Hell is hard because it is so nearly nothing… subtracting all the common sense, proportion, humor, logic, and observation out of a person doesn’t really leave much left except appetites demanding satisfaction, at any cost – including, ultimately, the ability to be satisfied. The ego will feed upon its own substance and leave no self left at all.

So, is she serious? Perhaps as serious as she can be. There’s two ways you could fail to throw a ball – either by having a ball to heavy to lift and toss, or by having no arms. She’s lopping off large hunks of her mental capacity, so is it a case of simply not being capable of serious thought, or is the thought itself so deflated and incoherent that it can’t be expressed seriously, much less taken so?
- nightfly | 08/19/2014 @ 09:28
Nightfly,

you’ve nailed it. Leftism fails because its epistemology rests on a contradiction — the fact that there’s no such thing as a fact.

Jeez, I hate being the “it all comes back to Marx” guy, but really — it all comes back to Marx, who said, “It is not consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” Since our consciousness is our only tool for perceiving Truth, it follows logically that by changing a man’s “social being,” you can literally change the Truth for him.

In the meta sense, of course, this is obviously false. Marxism is the clearest possible illustration of the Ishmael Effect — if it were true, we couldn’t believe it, because Marx himself would have his consciousness dictated by his social being just like the rest of us. But when it comes to cases, Marx’s statement works well enough. Look at these chicks. They’ve inserted themselves into a social world where two and two make five, and anyone who questions the obvious rightness of this is a wrecker with a sinister patriarchal agenda. It’ll take a lot more than mere logic to bust them out of this trap, because you can’t reason someone out of a position they were never reasoned into.

Unfortunately for us, chicks like this are so insulated by privilege and money money money that by the time reality’s giant pimp hand is slapping them, the rest of us will have been Beyond Thunderdome long since.
- Severian | 08/19/2014 @ 10:45

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