Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
The New York Times staffers wanted to change the paper’s longstanding motto, All the News That’s Fit to Print, to something more cutting edge, more of-the-moment, more congenial with the crypto-gnostic social justice impetus to change human nature in order to make the world a better place.
My personal suggestion was All the News That’s Fit to Print for Angry, Hysterical Women and Their Intersectional Allies, since The New York Times is now an advocacy rag, but the staff choice apparently is The Truth is Worth It — or perhaps The Times paid some Madison Avenue logo engineers for that.
And one is prompted to ask: worth what, exactly? If “truth” actually amounts to “lived experience,” as The Times insists, then truth can be whatever you say it is — the bedrock ethos of all tyrannical political movements. To me, The Truth is Worth It sounds suspiciously like The Ends Justify the Means, and anyone following the so-called Resistance the past three years may have noticed that’s exactly how it operates.
For instance, Resistance team captain Elizabeth Warren referred the other day to the 2014 “murder” of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri “by a white policeman.” Of course, Ms. Warren was speaking her “truth.” Now, it happens that the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder (this was the Obama administration) determined that it was not murder, as did an inquiry by the State of Missouri — rather that Mr. Brown was shot after attacking officer Darren Wilson in his police car and attempting to grab his gun.
Did Senator Warren not believe former attorney general Holder? Was there some other authoritative opinion she was referencing? Or was she just making shit up on-the-fly to juice an audience? Could she have had any other purpose than to provoke racial animus? Is that what this country needs? More tension between blacks and whites? More reason for suspicion and hatred? Is that where you want leadership to lead you?
Senator Warren’s remark pretty obviously demonstrates the Resistance’s tenuous relationship with reality. Her rival, Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted out substantially the same thing last Friday. Do they actually believe what they are saying, or is it simply a tactical move because it’s worth it to stir up racial animosity if you want to become president? The media gave both of them a pass on that ploy.
A few weeks ago, podcaster Dave Rubin had “spiritual teacher” Eckhart Tolle on for a chat, and Mr. Tolle made the surprising remark that the current sorrows of the world were due to an excess of yin and not enough yang, meaning, he went on to explain, too much of the female principle in operation and not enough of the male principle. This crack made Dave Rubin blink a few times, especially coming from the most serene celebrity on the planet, a fellow far less excitable than the Dalai Lama, and a demigod to the yoga pants and Chai tea crowd. Too much yin! He said that? Really?
Mr. Tolle is onto something. Just take, for instance, a recent column by The New York Times’s op-ed writer Gail Collins: How to Torture Trump. Could she have put it more plainly? Does she not sound like a woman who has gotten advice from an unscrupulous divorce lawyer (excuse the redundancy)? In fact, the USA is looking like a really bad marriage. The yin of America is stuck in an hysterical rage at the yang. Cis-men whose lived experience includes marriage may be familiar with this stratagem. The prudent men often opt to not engage with the hysteria, which almost invariably amps up the hysteria.
The aim of the national matrimonial hysteria is to make sure that whatever conflict is at issue remains unresolved. The melodrama goes on for its own sake. It’s fun living on the verge of a nervous breakdown. That is exactly why the US political scene is so disordered and distressed. That is why the Democratic Party can’t find any credible male candidates. And that is how come the country happened to elect an imperturbable Golden Golem of Greatness.
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Tried to get the “two wolves” image because it is such a good one… which wolf wins? The one you feed the most.
If the feminine is dominant, perhaps she’s been overfed. I think I saw a good example of that at Walmart today.
https://images.app.goo.gl/vbjrrtKgS1K6rs3T7
Does anybody ever, ever talk of toxic femininity?
No because in the current paradigm it is an inconceivable concept.
Thanks Jim.
The “How to Torture Trump” article (referenced & link-embedded above) was an NYT opinion piece by a woman triggered over Trump’s bragging that his large crowd broke Elton John’s record at the same arena in Manchester, NH.
On August 16, Trump tweeted:
Of course, no one believed it, until….
Fire marshal says Donald Trump’s boast that he smashed pop star’s attendance record at MAGA arena is TRUE
But, guess what? It’s all another rerun. From July 2018 (over a year ago) :
Trump Crowds Have Definitely Not Broken ‘Elton John Records’
Hey! Did you hear Jeff Epstein really did hang himself?
” I dont have a guitar or an organ”. Gee, I wish he said “I don’t have a guitar or a piano.”
Organ might have been a secret message for the Q-followers. Probably about the Antifa riots in Portland.
I get it. Portland, Organ.
you either laugh hysterically or else begin weeping uncontrollably….either that or say ‘ah fuck it’ and go wash the car and later have a beer and then early to bed so the following day’s bullshit can start all over again….Epstein jumped while his guards were sleeping and so on….
How about “All the News that’s not fit to print” because it is fake.
I get the feeling Harris really has no guiding principles, just whatever works at the moment, whereas Bernie and Warren are true, committed socialists. You want to see where this culture is being subverted to?
Look at the Gucci ad on the back cover of the Sept issue of Vanity Fair mag.
Gee, I recycled my sept Vanity Fair already. How about a link ?
How about:
All the fake news that fits we print.
It wouldn’t make that rag any better, but at least it would have an honest motto.