The Return Of Sanity Begins… “Polite” Off The Table.

Some things never change. Others change, but slowly. Then there is the brittle failure of a strong stiff support, where reality suddenly shifts and collapse follows.

Knowing which one is coming at you is essential to surfing the changes of time.

It is my contention that “society” and “culture” are most often prone to longer slow changes, but when pushed too far too fast, breaks in “brittle failure”. Rather like a Newtonian Fluid, they flow if pushed slowly, but pushed fast and / or too hard, will fracture and break down. I think we are in just such a moment.

For decades, the old order of “Be polite” and “If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything” ruled social order. I was raised with it. It is the foundation of the only really hard rule I have for “running the blog”: No insults to the person. You can disparage all the Public Persons and Political Folly that you like. You can call companies names and ‘talk dirt’ about them, but do not insult others visiting the blog. Related is a “try not to use hard curse words”, but that is sometimes let go. It isn’t a rule, so much as a desire to try to stay close to R rated or less…

But, some years back, The Left decided to weaponize politeness. “We” had to accept all sorts of offensive behaviour as “we” had to be polite about it. Yet the forced asymmetry of The Left declared that They could become insulting and even violent at the drop of a political hat and decry us as all sorts of evil. (Often in new phony insult label terms, like “transphobe”. I have zero fear of “trans” anything. I do find it offensive when shoved at children, or when it forbids humor.)

For a decade or two the society at large just flowed with this push. Conforming to the New Demands and trying not to cause trouble. Then Cancel Culture arrived. The “Do As I Demand OR ELSE!” Gestapo of The Left. Fear diffused through the culture for a couple of years. That, IMHO, was when The Left pushed too hard. And a brittle failure happened.

The bulk of The People rejected this. Look at Goya. They sold mostly a few varieties of canned beans in my local store when their founder said he supported Trump. The Cancel Culture Mob attacked. But a strange thing happened… We The People emptied the shelves of anything with the Goya name on it. (I went to buy a can of beans and found the shelf sold out…). Now? From about 4 shelf feet of beans, the Goya section has expanded into a dozen products over as many feet. I now have Goya Adobo and several other spices. Goya canned ham in my pantry. Goya beans, canned and dried. Even Goya Pigeon Peas in a can (even though I don’t know how to use them…)

The scent was in the air, and ANY company where The Left announce a “boycott” was immediately met with a “buycott”. (I now own 2 or maybe 3 “My Pillow”s… and his product line expanded to sheets, slippers, and more.) The break had happened. Still being mostly polite about it, but “No!” was being said loudly with the wallet.

The Left didn’t catch the clue…

So yet more Trans-Crap was shoved at folks. We were herded into lock downs and home schooling as the schools closed. About 1/4 to 1/3 of folks refused the forced medication with an experimental mRNA jab (and I quit working part time supporting my dentist when his upstream Government Regulatory Body demanded a jab – something that was hard to do to someone I’d known as a friend for 40 years… first met at Karate Class…) The PUSH was on, and a lot of folks did not comply.

The hard core of resistance separated from the soft body of conformance and brittle fracture happened along that line. WE would not comply. The Newtonian Fluid had stiffened on one side. That line of stiffening has spread outward and is moving the line of fracture further every day. Even traditional Democrats are saying What The?

And at that moment, Budweiser stepped in it. The stresses in society were already full on. The Newtonian Core was hardened. The fracture line was showing, but not yet broken through. And just one tiny bit further bent, breaks the rod. I can’t think of a company better positioned to offend more people all at once than what had been THE largest beer brand. Yes, Disney was well on their way with their Woke Crap and people were “staying away in droves” (Disney Plus losing 4 million subscribers in one go); but they were pushing children & Moms – folks who are expected to be quiet and / or polite. But rough guys don’t need to be polite… and Momma Bear when pushed too far goes balistic.

In a flash, the incipient crack became a fracture moving through the whole body politic. The fluid portion reduced to a minor corner and the bulk of The People broke off from Woke Crap. Transweiser Bush became a meme, a butt of jokes, and they destroyed their brand forever. NO real guy will want to be seen drinking “tranny fluid” or holding a Gay Beer. Momma Bear found out what was being taught to her kids in school and showed up at School Board Meetings (and the FBI declared her a “terrorist”… marking the FBI as “enemy #1 of The People” and untrustworthy – something they have confirmed in hiding the Hunter Biden corruption)… Schools telling kids to have their genitals cut off is NOT why Mama sends her kids to school…

The thing about brittle failure is that not only is it sudden, but it is not “undoable”. A bent metal rod can be bent back. A glass rod bent too hard just fractures and there is no going back. You can only re-make it from scratch with a full melt and molding. It is a one way change to the future.

So where are we now?

Well, The People have suddenly realized they are not alone. That THEY are the large majority. The Left is just a squeaky annoying minority of too loud and often obnoxious turds. Best laughed at and ignored. How do I know this? Comedy has returned.

In this report, The Quartering shows a comedienne doing a show that “offends” some from The Left. They take offense and leave. BUT: The bulk of the audience is not offended, and laughs about them. The People have decided several important things:

1) We are not alone.
2) We are by far the majority.
3) The Left being offended is their natural state and irrelevant to me.
4) We Do NOT Care about them anymore.
5) It is FINE for us to be rude and impolite about it. This is war, after all.
6) To do good for most of us, we need to make a few enemies among the evil ones.
7) Laughing at insanity is OK.

This is clear from the way the comedienne handles the offended ones, and from the audience reaction.

There’s some quotes from one of the better thinkers in history that apply here.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay_%28author%29

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
[…]
Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.

We never did “go mad”. We just knuckled down to try and ride out the insanity. Now we’ve figured out most folks are like us, and it is the herd of the insane that is just making a lot of noise. THEY will need to recover “one by one”. Like Tom Hanks having shifted sides, or RFK Jr. coming out with sane ideas. One by One The Left leaning will need to remove themselves from the goo of the soft flowing amorphous left and come to the right side.

In the mean time, the bulk of society has stiffened up and formed up into a solid core of sanity. The Herd that stampeded off to Woke Land was largely the political and Uber Manager classes along with their organs of influence (like Teachers Unions and Universities). They will have in-group cohesion to overcome to one by one return to reality. All while the bulk of the 4-wheeling, boat driving, and Mamma Bear types are busy having a Reality Party (with anything but Butt Lite…). The party is on, and we are not playing by their rules anymore.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. … You’ve been a coward in the fight.

It is not “disinformation”, it is lying.
It is not “malinformation”, it is propaganda.
It is not “misinformation”, it is being wrong.

Saying I’m speaking “misinformation” makes it harder to say “NO, I am speaking truth. What I say is RIGHT as opposed to WRONG”. Saying “I am wrong” invites the response “No, I am right, here is my evidence.” Do NOT let THEM change your language. Do not embrace their madness.

It is not “Pride Week” (or is it a month now?). It is “Buggery Week” as that is what they are celebrating.

It is not “being intolerant” (they can do what they want in private) to insist on keeping sexuality (of all kinds…) out of grammar schools. It is recognizing the need for an innocent childhood.

It is not “transphobic” to want children left intact until AFTER puberty. It is natural. Similarly there will be no girl’s or women’s sports if biological men are allowed to dominate them. Guys with penises and balls ought not be in “women’s spaces”. That’s “creepy” and “threatening” not “transphobic”. Do not let “transphobic” justify or replace “perversion”.

Finally, one big surprise. I’ve stated a few times that modern Russia is a European Christian Nation. I’d known that Putin rebuilt churches across Russia. I did not know the magnitude of it. This video has excerpts from a speech Putin made about Christianity in Russia vs perversion in the West. Note the Orthodox Clergy in the audience.

But now I know why the GEBs want Russia destroyed. Putin is busy preventing their perversion from corrupting Russian culture. I’d like to find the whole speech somewhere, but I’m not sure where to start looking. Maybe after breakfast ;-)

So bear in mind that there are many large countries that have rejected the GEBs Woke Crap. Russia, China, India, and a lot of the Global South (Hispanic Catholics for example). Realize that the Euro-GEBs are strongest in the Anglo-Saxon West (even having trouble in European nations like Hungary, Italy, and others).

A large part of the world is “on our side” in the culture war to preserve natural sanity. Keep a “Tidy Mind”, laugh at the insanity, enjoy the memes, and make a few selected enemies in all the right places. It’s OK ;-) and it’s getting better.