House of Eratosthenes

From the time I could talk, I have driven people to distraction by treating the unknown as, you know, the unknown. Like a little kid — but why? Why this? Why that? I’m sure for people who don’t welcome it, it’s quite tedious. There hasn’t been any enigma worth leaving as an enigma. This is not to say I’ve managed to figure out everything — far from it — but at the very least I’ve always wanted to make a lasting footnote out of whatever story was incomplete, whatever mystery couldn’t be cracked. Just in case some new information came my way, at a later time, that could answer the question…

Right up until these fucking pink pussy hats.

“I am unhappy with Trump winning the election” has something to do with wearing a knitted facsimile of a woman’s vagina on your head…how? I’m at the point where I don’t give a shit anymore. Past it, rather. Yes it’s got something to do with this hot-mic debacle on the bus with “grab ’em by the pussy,” that part I get. But what’s this supposed to be on your head? Another woman’s vagina? Your own? You’ve got pussy on your mind? You’re offering up your hat for Donald Trump to grab? You want him to grab your head?

The core message seems to be one of: I really wanted that scandal to decide the election so Hillary would win, and since that didn’t happen it makes me unhappy. Okay, so you learned the hard way the country overall isn’t that hung up on this stuff. Now you wish to repeat the message, in the form of knitted head wear, that you’ve learned through experience doesn’t work. And toward that end you want to spend real money, make a big show out of spending the money, encourage others to spend money on this thing you know doesn’t work. I don’t get that part.

It’s like the desire went one way, reality went the other way, and what you wish to advertise is that you elevate your desires above conflicting reality. Well right. That’s part of what makes a liberal a liberal, “feelz above realz.” Well yeah, we knew this about you guys already. For quite awhile. If you could put what’s real above what your feelings were about it, and in so doing acknowledge reality even when you find it uncomfortable, you wouldn’t be liberals. So what else are you trying to say?

Pink Pussy Hats The official website says it is a

social movement focused on raising awareness about women’s issues and advancing human rights by promoting dialogue and innovation through the arts, education and intellectual discourse.

No it doesn’t do that. Not unless you count eyeball-rolls as “dialogue” and wearing a lady-parts reference on your head as “intellectual discourse.” There is slippage here. I know I’m the one reading things too literally, and there’s a “wink wink nudge nudge” going on that I’m supposed to…you know…just get. Like and stuff. Well no, I don’t get it, it eludes me.

I see some other lefty activists, it turns out, don’t like the hats. This comes as a surprise to these people who are much smarter than I am, who can just-get-it. Looks like they didn’t get something: “…that they [the hats] might not include trans women or nonbinary women or maybe women whose (genitals) are not pink.” Alright so maybe this is a fail anyway. But what was it trying to say? The questions above remain open.

Or…maybe not. Unlike the many, many other things I haven’t managed to get in my half century on the planet…and I’m including in that, things like “Why doesn’t Ziggy wear pants?” and “How does the roadrunner disappear into a tunnel the Coyote painted onto the rock?”…with this one my patience is at an end and I don’t care anymore.

The hat wearers themselves, apart from displaying execrable judgment, don’t know. And don’t care.

That’s like George Lucas not knowing or caring why “Han shot first” at Darth Vader at the dinner table in Cloud City, when he didn’t shoot first with Greedo back at Mos Eisley. Or for that matter, Darth Vader sitting down at a dinner table. If he’s ignorant & apathetic and he’s the one putting together this universe, that means there’s no answer. I think we’re at that point with the pink hats. The thing that would make it all make sense, is out of view, but since it’s out of view, I’m ready to seriously entertain the possibility — now a likelihood — that there’s nothing there at all. I can’t prove it. But this time, perhaps for the first time, I’m ready to enshrine that without any further evidence substantiating that it’s so, as an article of belief.

It’s an incoherent message. End of mystery.

Somebody once said that American politics only makes sense if you assume that the real decision makers in any organization are actually deep-cover agents of their worst enemies. Lord knows this has applied to the Republicans for years — if you swapped out Paul Ryan for Nancy Pelosi, could we really tell the difference? — but it seems increasingly to apply to the other side, too. I didn’t think it was possible for me to take SJWs less seriously…. but then they started wearing those things around.

(PS I suspect it’s actually only a few idiots who all gather for the same photo ops. I still have lots of friends in the ivory tower, and nobody I know has reported seeing one — if they were in wide use, surely there’d be a few on campus).
- Severian | 10/14/2018 @ 16:25
Yes, I didn’t mention it but there’s definitely something fishy going on there. OTOH, Linda Sarsour’s protest on the day after Trump’s inauguration successfully elevated the P.P. hat to iconic status, as an emblem both representing resistance to Trump, and purporting to represent all women.

I say “purporting to.” I get your point, that an attempt to speak on behalf of everything & everybody female does not necessarily represent success in doing so; many wise chicks are not on board with this; a page is not a book. Well be that as it may, if the P.P. hat doesn’t represent activist women, or even liberal activist women, it has achieved premier status among the symbols of the “knock civilization into the dirt so we can build it up again” left, at least in this chapter of our nation’s history. The very latest out of many.

Klavan had the thought that I find most intriguing: That this is not the beginning or the middle of something, but just maybe the end of something. As you know, I’m writing a whole book around that idea. I like it a whole lot.
- mkfreeberg | 10/15/2018 @ 02:58
I’ve said as much myself — somewhere deep in the RC archives is a bit about Obama’s election looking like the Left’s final triumph, when in fact it was the last twitch of the corpse. The Left has been toast since they abandoned actual Marxism for Cultural Marxism. Alas, the wheels of History grind slow and exceeding fine — cf. Western Civilization, which committed suicide in 1914, but the corpse kept twitching into the 21st century.

It’s going to be hilarious, watching Science’s BFFs proclaim science to be irredeemably racist here in the next few years, and start getting back to The Ancient Soul-Essence of Peoples of whatever they’ll end up calling it. Remember, today’s SJW is tomorrow’s obergruppenfuhrer – you just have to give it a few years.
- Severian | 10/15/2018 @ 10:33

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