Monday, May 01, 2023

Insanity is being normalized

Insanity is being normalized - DAVID STROM 
  • What if you destroy the norms and definitions that give shape to our lives and our basic understanding of the world?
"...You work with what you have and what you know and make the best decisions possible. 
It’s how we must navigate the world.
  • So what happens when you dump something like “critical theory” into everything?
The whole point of critical theory is to take simple and understood concepts and turn them into a jumble of gobbledygook in which your normal understanding of what things are and how things work into a total mess. 
  • That mess is created, actually, with a purpose...
  • Your understanding of how the world works becomes destroyed. 
It is paralyzing.
How can you make any rational choices if your understanding of how things work and what things are is completely undermined?
  • Basic concepts like “man” and “woman” become meaningless. 
You are literally prevented from using categories necessary to living life in a sane manner because your common sense–and that sense has to be common or we cannot even communicate–has been stripped from you.
Nothing in the world is what it appears, the critical theorist argues. 
  • You must submit to my superior understanding.
So you get this: 

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