Guest Post by Eric Peters
Isn’t it insufferable?
The way reasonable aversion to the things being pushed on us – such as mRNA drugs – is framed as being “hesitant”? Implying a kind of doltish, obdurate, low-IQ reluctance to accept something beneficial.
Then there was “mask opposition defiant disorder” – the etymological effort to frame anyone who refused to pretend they were psychologically ill (i.e., a pathological hypochondriac) as psychologically ill!
The pathological specialize in such mind-fuckery. Objective reality is not just turned upside down, you are cat-called for failing to go along with it.
Similarly, this business of range and charge “anxiety.” It smacks of unreasonable timorousness. What are you afraid of? Of a piece with “transphobia” – implying (directly accusing, in fact) people who are annoyed by mentally disturbed men who believe they are women – and mentally disturbed women who believe they are men – are scared of them. So as to frame them as weak-minded and petty. So as to elevate mentally unstable people to a kind of aggrieved nobility,
And so it is with EVs.
“Anxiety” about the limited range of battery powered devices – about the fact that they require you to plan your life around recharging them and waiting for them – is nothing of the sort. It is reasonable aversion to wasting one’s time. Especially when it is not necessary. Especially when it is avoidable. Is the person who avoids a long checkout line in favor a shorter one “anxious”? Or is he just wanting to not stand in line for longer than necessary?
Is the person who object to being pushed into an inferior form of transportation a ninny because he dislikes the pushing? No, silly you. He is merely . . . “anxious.” He will come around in time. Cue gentle pat on the head,.
A key tactic of the pushers of things is to mock those who object to being pushed. It is not a new tactic. It’s been in use for decades. Are you someone who objects to paying your “fair share” in taxes? The shaming implication being obvious. You are wanting to deny others what it rightfully theirs. Never mind that that they didn’t earn it. You owe them a “fair share” of it. That is the predicate for criminalizing the not-handing-over of all of it.
Do you object to legally enforced – that is to say, institutional – policies that specifically favor people of one race over another? Then – assuming you are white – you are a “racist.” If you are black or some other legally privileged minority who defends/advocates such privileges for people who happen to be one color rather than another, you’re not.
“Diversity” works the same way. That is to say, one way.
Do you object to women being given special legal privileges at the expense of men, simply because they are women? Then you are a “misogynist.” You dislike women. As opposed to disliking the idea of giving them the preferential treatment because they are women that women used to object to when it was given to men.
What comes around does not go around.
Are you skeptical about assertions made that the “climate” is “changing”? Why, you must be a denier. With all the ugly connotations that carries.
And so it goes.
R. Emmet Tyrrell of the The American Spectator had a word for all of this. He called it the kultursmog – a neologism which means what it sounds like it means, with a German accent. The culture is awash in the etymological smog of the Left; this pollution of language is now so pervasive that it has become the environment in which we swim, without us even noticing we’re mired in it.
Note the way even the putative opponents of the Left regularly use the language of the Left when trying to argue with the Left or oppose Leftism. This makes it much harder to argue with the Left, having already implicitly agreed with the Left. As, for example, “your” mask. The one the Leftist insisted you wear. Well, it’s yours, isn’t it? So put it on! How about “our democracy,” the term currently being emitted by Leftists everywhere? It means their control of the apparatus of government, of course. But if you make the mistake of saying the words you have already agreed with the Left that America is a country in which the majority rules – rather than a constitutionally limited republic specifically designed to prevent the majority from lording it over the minority. 
How is a person born in the United States – whose parents and their parents were also born in the United States – who happens to black an “African-American”? He isn’t, of course. So don’t say he is. Just as you would not say a person who was born in the United States – whose parents and their parents were also born in the United States – who happens to be white is a “European-American.”
Call bullshit on bullshit being the lesson here.
And that goes double-plus good for the bullshit about range and charge “anxiety.”
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I prefer that you refer to me as central european caucasian american.
I prefer German, Dutch, Scotish, French American. Anf please use Sir when addressing me.
Just call me mutt
I identify as an attack helicopter.
I am Phoenician.
“Aggrieved nobility”
I remember suggesting that everyone had better find some victim group to join soon or else they will find themselves all alone as the oppressor.
Ridicule seems to be the theme of all the shaming, and it seems to be effective.
Well I think we learned threatening people’s jobs gets them to conform really well. I understand why for sure, but there you are.
Yes, it is probably the biggest means of control they have. Why I and others have pushed “tribal” solutions for so long. The independence and resilience it creates allows much more opportunity for noncompliance and forays into enemy territory, since you don’t have to worry so much about a primary breadwinner losing the whole shebang because they lose their income.
That is why they promote the single family, or worse now, single parent, household so relentlessly.
Hell, let’s not even get started on ‘mixed race’ and all the divisions of that the democrats had antebellum.
I met a guy in AZ who had a Rivian electric truck. He lives in Phoenix and sticks mostly to the interstate highways where there is easy access to charging stations. He wants to be able to do some overlanding and boondocking with the truck, but he said he has “range anxiety” and won’t go anywhere he can’t easily find a charging station. He is basically looking for the next charging station the second he finishes charging the truck.
Years from now, rusty old Rivians will be parked in farm yards with the pickup bed being used for a flower pot. They’re going out of business in my opinion. They’ve laid off much of their workforce and the stock has been massacred.
I can’t believe the author doubts the experts. They have said , ” we now know why you silly odd non conformist types act as you do……. ”
The vaccine ‘ hesitant ‘ don’t have myocarditis !
I would rather be doltish than dead.
I would love to start a mobile car charging service featuring diesel generators and staffed by giant, surly, disdainful rednecks.
Not sure if it would become profitable, but the YouTube footage would be priceless!
Charging Anxiety? That’s what I call living above your means! I prefer to pay as I go for my anxiety.
The Light Brigade had “charging anxiety” not these fools.