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Thoughtful Reader's avatar

You (Jenny) get stronger every day. We’re not just saving culture from itself - we’re saving it from the “realkulture” that has suffocated it.

We’ve understood “realpolitik” since Otto Avon Bismarck, the late 1800s. According to the Financial Times, realpolitik is “politics about power, about maneuvering coalitions, about social forces and their capacity to influence politics, and about the power of ideas in shaping political possibilities.”

Realpolitik is leaving ideals, morals and ethics behind, in favor of power. Realpolitik justifies *anything* - lockdowns, war, unlimited destruction - in pair of its voracious hunger for power.

I’d suggest that realkuture is simply the same thing, but spawning in the culture.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

Thank you, as always, for your kind words. Also, "realkulture" is a fantastic concept, you are onto something with that.

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Delightful Dissident's avatar

I love this essay and it was awesome meeting you in NY. I find the leftist push to infect everything with trans ideology to be the most destructive and disturbing phenomenon- it makes me feel completely crazy. I just CANNOT believe that this is where we are as a society.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

Thank you and it was great meeting you too!!

This stuff does make us feel crazy, and that's the goal. It's really stunning to see what is happening. I just keep telling myself that every sane interaction, no matter how small, is a victory, albeit a small one. So thank you for your work, too!!

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Susan Vonder Heide's avatar

It would be hard to deal with a lot of what is going on in the world today without being informed by the Bible, which warns us to stand against the devil's schemes and says that our struggle is not against "flesh and blood" but against "the powers of this dark world and against the forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12). It continues by telling us how to put on the full armor of God in order to stand our ground. And it tells us to pray.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

As a still not-religious person, I agree with you. Everything that is going on right now points in the same direction: the edicts and rules of religion were there for a reason, and they contain truth. Truth is the antidote. (I'm still working on the belief part - be patient with me! 😀)

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Susan Vonder Heide's avatar

Continue on the journey. C.S. Lewis didn't believe either, until he did.

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Hesperado's avatar

I think the sexual/family destabilization is a penultimate goal, not part of their ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to bring down the West and replace it with a globalist totalitarianism. When assessing their activities & motives, we have to distinguish between those that reflect their ultimate desires and those that relate to obstructions they perceive are in the way of realizing their ultimate desires. The West stands in the way, so they are destabilizing it in order to deconstruct it. But a civilization -- particularly one as massive, sophisticated, rich and powerful as Western Civilization -- can't be disassembled like an Ikea table. It would take decades of complex unscrewing and unriveting and rewiring. Not to mention that they likely don't want to merely destroy the West and rebuild atop its smoking ruins, but rather wisely they plan to use its complex networks of infrastructures, as a parasite colony might take over an animal's abode or carcass. This is not to say they don't desire some of the features & components of their penultimate goals (e.g., sex with children unencumbered by customs, laws, families); but we would be thinking too narrowly and prosaically if we thought all they want is to revel in body-painted chaos, like technocratic hippies or something.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

Yes, you could say the attack on sexual boundaries and the family unit are the tactic and the strategy is to create a global totalitarian system with the ultimate goal being full spectrum control.

When you say "It would take decades of complex unscrewing and unriveting and rewiring" -- I agree, but that's what has been happening under our noses since at least the '60's. We are at an advanced stage of that deconstruction now. No?

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Hesperado's avatar

Yes it seems so. Covid (the psy-op masquerading as a pandemic) really helped accelerate their timeline. I can see Schwab facepalming himself: "Vy didn't vee zink of ziss beFORE...!!!???"

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“Do women get a free pass to say whatever they want when discussing their rights? Would you oppose an anti-abortionist woman if she came to your town to argue that women should have fewer rights?” He asked on Twitter

Bragg is also indulging a conflation typical of Leftists -- "oppose" has in their lexicon come to mean "silence". People could oppose this hypothetical anti-abortionist woman while letting her speak & write. You know, by that strange human activity Leftists have forgotten, called "debating".

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Jenny Holland's avatar

They hate debate because they are cowards. Total cowards. As all liars are.

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Sara Bush's avatar

Everyone knows this is true, but the people who understand science and psychology are not in the majority. Also, it is such an extension of group-think that it’s very difficult to convince anyone on the Left that what they are promoting is incongruent with science and society.

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Loren Dean's avatar

This is a touchstone post.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

Thank you!!

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SW's avatar

So it’s just about power, right?

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Sam McGowan's avatar

First, there is no such thing as an "important tweet." Second, the reason you don't remember such authority coming from the right when you were younger is because it was coming from the left, as it has been since the 1770s when French intellectuals decided THEY should be authorities and anyone who disagreed should be guillotined. The current LGBTQ controversy is just the latest in a long war in an attempt to take control of the world in a new social order.

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Susan Vonder Heide's avatar

Yes, I remember when the "moral majority" was big, and the accusation was that conservative Christians wanted to establish a "theocracy". That obviously remained in the fantasy world of the left, but leftists are doing their best to establish a "theocracy" of their leftist "religion" today, and not just through government but also through academia, corporations, K-12 education, etc.

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Hesperado's avatar

"...shamefully retweeted by GC advocate Emma Nicholson..." -- Billy Bragg

GC?

GC definition: George Cross (a Brit award for bravery) ?

(metrology) Symbol for gigacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 109 coulombs ?

GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin ?

gas chromatograph; gas chromatography ?

In molecular biology and genetics, GC-content (or guanine-cytosine content) ?

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MarkS's avatar

gender critical

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S. Anderson's avatar

I'm not sure the other ideologies have to fall if trans falls, but I do think these are all astroturfed movements to some degree or another, and somehow the various actors behind them have managed to invade all "leftish" organizations and media. This piece on the turn Vice media took after accepting outside funding is illustrative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqSYl5u3cW4

I have to wonder if Billy Bragg is receiving some outside funding.

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Jenny Holland's avatar

Thank you!

I heard Mary Harrington use the term 'meat Lego' in reference to the butchery of young people under the spell of transgenderism. It's a fantastic phrase. Because you are right, this is Frankenstein level craziness.

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