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Women Aren't Carefully Taught
Remember the song in South Pacific? “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.” To be a racist. That was back in 1949, when liberals were luxuriating in their glorious campaign to end racism — and Jim Crow.
Not really, Oscar Hammerstein II, old chap. Hate and fear don’t have to be taught; they are basic instincts in all humans — and apes too, I dare say. It’s in the jeans; it’s about survival. But let’s take a look at the lyrics.
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
Back then of course, it was liberals who were taking the high road — except for the ones spying for the Commies. Today, not so much.
Be that as it may, as a sexist, I say that the South Pacific doctrine doesn’t apply to women. You don’t have to “carefully” teach them anything. Women believe exactly what they are taught and what they pick up from the Zeitgiest.
So when mental health counselor Josh Slocum, who is gay, says that “Men are fed up with female insanity,” I get it. Says he:
Men have a big problem these days: the women in their lives.
Simply put, their wives, mothers, sisters, co-workers, and other female friends have become unbearable.
Why is this? Because women have been taught to be unbearable. By the feminist culture and its “lived experience” and its “safetyism” its marginalization of men as “misogynists” and “patriarchs.” And there is no way to challenge an accusation of misbehavior by a female co-worker, not at the feminist dominated HR department.
Then there is the CEO of Bolt that fired the entire HR department.
Now I believe that men are hierarchical, as in: “lead, follow, or get out of the way.” But women are egalitarian, as in “she’s no better than me.” So when egalitarian women show up in the hierarchical world of work, they don’t like it. And the result ain’t pretty.
I say: “women expect to be protected.” But they don’t appreciate that protection means a macho man like Donald Trump. They live with the instinct that protection is already taken care of.
So what do we do about it? Nothing.
I believe that, in due course, women will decide that liberation, girl-bossing, careers, is not for them. Look for it to start in the upper classes. Career, after all, comes from the French “carrière” or racetrack. The upper-class snobettes will decide that domestic life, neighborhood life, committee life is where it’s at. And they will be right, because that kind of life fits much better with the feminine jeans.
Will we go the Muslim way, with women kept covered and indoors?
No. I have a faith that in due course, the arc of feminism will come back to Earth and women will say to their friends: “I can’t believe they said that” and women will revalue their instincts for love, for marriage, for children, and for community.
I go back to Georg Simmel and his century-old prophecy that women would transform the public square to suit a more feminine sensibility. I believe that the current public square has been transformed to suit a feminist sensibility rather than a feminine sensibility. And most women don’t like that.
They won’t have to be carefully taught. They will talk to each other and say that “my sister says” and “My friend agrees” and discover that they can’t believe what the feminists have done to them, and what’s the point of a career anyway.
| Wed, 27 May 2026 22:28:44 GMT |
A Brief History of the Educated Kidz
Over at UnHerd, a student at Columbia University just published a pro-Graham Platner piece, quoting the Nazi tat guy thus:
We are going to take back what is ours. Because for decades, they have taken. Piece by piece, store by store, hospital by hospital, home by home, they have taken... They took so much they began to think that we didn’t exist at all.
This, writes Nikos Mohammadi, is just like MAGA, only from the left.
Oh please! That was my first reaction.
But then I thought. Yeah. For decades the administrative state has been hollowing out the ordinary middle class. Now the administrative state liberalism of the educated class is finally bearing down on the youth of the educated class. That’s who’s voting for DSA candidates from Mamdani to Katie Wilson. The twenty-somethings of the educated class who are finding out that their woke degrees aren’t worth the paper they were printed on.
And yes, the young educated class has been screwed by the system. The lords of the administrative state have been expanding and expensifying education for the last century and more. We racist-sexist-homophobes have been pointing out the problems for decades, but the lords of the administrative state just kept on keeping on. After all, who would have thought that a whole generation of girls with stupid woke degrees would be practically unemployable? Inconceivable!
Going back to Marx and Engels, the left has always been saying: just do what we say, and a better society will result.
And all along young people in the educated class have believed. And they back a revolution, or cosplay revolution in “peaceful protest” believing that’s the way to get there.
And that’s the belief system, that a rational political plan can make the world a better place. And if it’s not happening then we protest. Or we spy for the Commies.
In the 1930s that was the most fashionable thing to do. That’s what the Brit Cambridge Five was all about, and that’s what our American Alger Hisses and Harry Dexter Whites were all about.
In the 1960s we had the radical left and the Vietnam War protests with terrorist bombings to follow.
Now we have AntiFa, pro-Hamas protests, Black Lives Matter protests, anti-ICE protests, and assassination attempts against Republicans and corporate figures.
I was realizing that this was all fake as I have been reading Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Now I happen to think that the idea of making humanity interplanetary with rockets to Mars is crazy cakes, and electric cars are silly, or at least temporary until we get nuke cars. But that fact is that Elon Musk has made electric cars happen with his Tesla that has completely changed how cars are made and sold. And he has created his Starlink satellite network to finance his interplanetary Starship system.
How did he do it? You really don’t want to know. Reading the story in Elon Musk is mindbending: the risks and setbacks, the whole culture of Musk’s approach to business. And yet he inspires: think of the cheering employees we saw on the recent Starship flight test.
Then I read a recent post of LHGrey on her Substack. She gives us “Chaos or the Last Man.” Yes, shé’s a Nietzsche adept and insists that the road to achievement and creation lies through chaos and suffering. Says she:
Post-traumatic growth research, dark-triad correlations with creative eminence, and flow-state studies all confirm the mechanism at the cellular level: optimal anxiety, controlled chaos, is the forge [of creation].
In other words, you need to be the impossible, one-of-a-kind Elon Musk. Otherwise
the sanitized self projects its chaos onto the Other, spawning purity spirals, cancel mobs, and ideological auto-immune disorders.
LHGrey is saying that notions that the educated class believes are all illusions. We cannot have a nice well-organized world where everything is tucked into bed by sundown.
Instead, Order follows Chaos, creation is a flicker of light in the dark night of the soul.
Nearly all of us just want to live a low-risk life and stay out of the underworld of the unconscious. I am one such.
But that means that you can’t complain if you don’t create wonders. the perfect life is not as Marx imagined it:
I can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner,
Just ask Elon Musk.
| Tue, 26 May 2026 22:32:07 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
The press is downstream from activism is downstream from the Cathedral is downstream from the political formula.
Men: “March toward the sound of the guns.” Women: “Shelter in place.”
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: The Double Revolution: in Physics and the Economy
