Pro tip: Refuse to believe absurdities.
Don't ever let anyone hijack your ability to think - it's kinda imporant.
On the 3rd episode of Haman Nature, the Porcupine and I had a whole lot of fun talking about Vegas, gambling, and the way scarcity, effort, and risk shape our lives - and always have.
But early in that episode, we also launched the first (of many) fun segments we will be using to spice up the show. This one was called, “Hey hero, your fly is down!” and was dedicated to the great Dave Smith of the Part of the Problem podcast.
Dave off-handedly remarked that the trans issue (specifically, men competing against women in swimming) was unimportant compared to the other crimes of government (wars, inflation, cronyism, etc).
That’s why he doesn’t focus on the issue, he said. Not important enough. There is a hierarchy of sins committed by government, and this one doesn’t even move the needle compared to the others. Dave insists this issue is completely irrelevant. Doesn’t even register.
I took issue with that.
Sure, men competing against women in sports isn’t the biggest problem we are dealing with now, but that doesn’t mean the trans activism insanity isn’t important. It’s deadly important.
Not because of what happens in the pool, necessarily. Or for how twisted and cruel it is to female athletes (not to mention the soft sexual assault of demanding girls not complain when a “fellow swimmer” flashes his genitals at them in the changing room.
No, the issue is important because trans rights activists are hard at work obliterating the very concept of “woman”. Ask them if they have a word that means “adult human female” and they will have a meltdown. Word-salad will come spewing back at you.
They will insist that women accept the prefix “cis”. This isn’t a clarification, it’s a slur. They insist not only that it’s okay for men to compete (dominate) in women’s sports, but that these men are actually women. Like, for reals. Just like your mom, wife, or sister. No difference. No distinction. They’re all “women”.
This is insane.
It’s the kind of concept-obliteration that George Orwell so famously described in his novel 1984. Lies are truths. Facts are malleable. History isn’t fixed. The citizenry is compelled by force to hold contradictory “truths” in their head at all times.
This wipes out a person’s ability to think - and therefore to resist. Who can stand on the courage of their convictions against the crimes of the state when they have been trained to have no convictions?
And if they can make you swallow, without objection, the absurdity that a man is actually a woman, what on earth will you object to?
The difference between a man and a woman is one of the most obvious truths our species knows. It’s basic. It’s fundamental. It’s obvious. Abandon that aspect of reality and you forfeit the ability to even perceive reality.
I love Dave Smith. He’s the man, truly. But to insist that this issue isn’t important?
Hey hero, your fly is down.
I thought I made the case pretty well in that Haman Nature episode, but I want to leave you today by emphasizing the point with a form of persuasion second in power only to memes.
Who needs logic and persuasive rhetoric when you have quotes?!
“We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld, or CNN.” — B.W. Powe
“Men’s minds, once unbalanced, are ready to believe anything.” — Tacitus
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire
Thanks, as always for reading, watching, and listening.
Naturally,
Adam