My theory (part of which I think Steve has mentioned way back when) is that transgenderism has huge support from corporations because these organizations have substantial liability for the explosion of transgenderism. Between hormone-disrupting toxins (and indeed actual hormones) leaching into the environment and the glut of new information stimulus fracturing increasingly destabilized minds, the companies shaping our society create products and byproducts that have a lot to do with the changes we’re discussing.

These changes are imperceptible to most people because they happen on a longer timescale than the average person can process. Even the explosion of transgenderism doesn’t really register to most. There were always transgender people, and that means that there were always exactly as many as there are right now, and also it’s great that we have more now, and the more we add the better.

Plastics used in soda bottles or aluminum can linings, birth control and psychiatrics chemicals in the water supply, and the dramatic increase in the speed, intensity, and content of information transmission are messing with people. In addition to benefiting from presenting themselves as Good Corporations, they’re also covering their asses. Fewer people are going to be looking for causes (which are admittedly hard to identify and prove because the small per-incidence levels of exposure and time scales involved) when the messaging is basically that the explosion of transgenderism is Good.

That isn’t to say that this is the only cause for the Power of Transgender. There are a lot of different angles coming together on this one, as with a lot of the trends that are documented on iSteve. Trying to narrow these things down to a single cause is usually a mistake and has probably impeded the progression of proper analysis and push back against what a lot of people here might object to.

Part of the growth of the Power of Transgender comes from groups that really do believe in it ideologically. If much of gay is defined in opposition to heterosexual or normative (a word thrown around a lot by our joyful academic class), then Transgenderism is in many ways Peak Gay and therefore Peak Good. I also suspect that Capital T Transgenderism has a lot of support in Silicon Valley because many of the higher ups at these companies are transhumanists. If we’ve already normalized men turning into women, then we’ve already removed a lot of the moral, psychological, and philosophical barriers to connecting your brain to whatever neural interfaces they have in the pipes. After all, isn’t it weirder for a man to be a woman than a cyborg?\

Noticeably all look to be heavy weed smokers with the possible exception of the black guy corner right.

It’s nice that you are still reading though.

I won’t get into all the ways your post shortchanges and is wrong about Steve. Plenty to be mad at about when it comes to boomer conservatives or boomers in general, but your post sucks.

Isn’t the actual issue is that none of it is organic in that sense? It can’t collapse under its own weight because it’s not actually the structure? I think we all pretty much get it at this point but we also occasionally make statements to the contrary because it’s hard to be pessimistic, dour, etc. all the time.

Is there a hidden message in the “Appealing to Jeff Bezos’s Humanity, American Patriotism, and Personal Identification as a White Heterosexual Male” genre of posts that I’m missing?

“We business types, of which I am, personally, do love hockey sticks.”

Apologies then. My reply was probably a bit snobbish. For the audience here, I think Steve’s post was good as a pithy distillation of what the BLM business is about, and potentially a useful one. I like the “they’ll take your stuff” messaging because it cuts to the heart of the matter. Some people refuse to get what’s happening no matter how much detail or explanation is presented, but they have a hard time not understanding someone taking their car or their wallet.

The way you post here like you’re doing some kind of great public service and “fighting the power” is pretty entertaining. Not the content, mind you, but the context.

Will the shock professed from Singals and Yglesiases as the revolution turns on them be real or feigned? Is it that it would never happen or that they were supposed to enjoy another 10 years minimum of social largesse and the opportunity to secure a bigger life boat and confirmation of a welcoming port?

Watching all this happen at breakneck speed may be the only satisfaction quietly afforded to those of us who “told you so.”

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Dr. Zaius.

Comedy as a public form may be dead or dying, but SNL, late night talk shows, and standup make clear that laughter is still a popular way to show that you’ve recognized a position you’re supposed to agree with.

It has been explained and illustrated in depth here and many other places as well. If you don’t think that’s the case, simply defer to the actual literature of BLM types or that of the Woke Academic Left.

You may be relatively new to iSteve, so the following may not apply to you, but the extent to which seemingly decent and intelligent people go to not understand things has become very frustrating.

Scott is a waste of time. He’s a man with a few good ideas and talents (most of them stuck in 2016), but he may as well not exist outside of his Brand. And lord, oh lord, that Brand. It is impossible to have any public facing discussion with him that actually resembles a discussion because his Brand is I’m Always Right and The Master Persuader. i hope he’s better in private, but i doubt it.

he secured a loyal audience by correctly calling the 2016 election but is wrong more often than not these days. many of his ideas, reads on situations, and predictions fall into the obscenely stupid category. it doesn’t matter how bad his takes or predictions wind up being, he’ll always be there to tell you he was right. part of it is a joke and self-aware meta commentary for the more discerning among his audience, but it’s also who he really is and it comes from a place of insecurity and weakness.

The idea that Bezos or nearly anyone else in the elite class has much affinity or regard for what happens to America seems pretty optimistic. To the extent that such affinity exists, it only does so in a manner that’s so self-centered and megalomaniacal as to be beyond comprehension for most of us. We are not billionaires, after all.

The actions of the Bezoses and much of the current hysteria and destruction we see in America probably have a lot to do with the UN Population Projection for this century, Steve’s Most Important Graph in the World. With artificial intelligence taking over an increasing number of previously human-driven functions, the need for workers in the traditional sense will diminish. What’s needed now are consumers and Bodies to generate data. The traditional conceptions of economy are falling by the wayside, and this trend will continue to accelerate.

America has no real sense of place to these people. It is an idea firmly planted as a stepping stone, and it can therefore be simultaneously used and derided because it is not The Next Big Idea. Stepping stones are things to be left behind, the thinking goes.

The Sum of All Smears