A Culture of Unreality

 Our social milieu is delusional in so many ways, largely by design. Yet the toxic seepage from Bizarro World Academia into social media, schools, government, non-profit orgs, and overall culture cannot be overstated. People under 20 are probably the most influenced, but so are those in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and up.

If social media is any indication, what these cohorts have in common is an apparent total disconnect from nature, and from reality overall. They can’t tell the difference between fact and opinion. They’ve never learned to watch or question their own thoughts, thereby learning that much of what they think is fleeting and unreal. They never learned critical thinking or to challenge themselves.

They don’t have problem-solving skills because most of these coddled children never had to solve any. Someone always rushed in to do that for them. They didn’t get free play, especially outside, with kids of their own choosing. Unlike the baby boomer cohort, they never got to decide what to do with other kids, like make up games and the rules for those games, and together solve the problems that arose, or learn how to deal with the problematic kids. In person, face to face.

They didn’t build forts together with found materials, or play in the woods, pretending to be explorers or pioneers or Native Americans (all of which would now be considered very BAD, a violation of critical social justice theories and therefore akin to VIOLENCE). Besides, what woods in towns are even left now?

These kids played in adult-organized sports league teams, and in some cases there was no winning team or losing team, so the kids didn’t learn how to deal with disappointment and loss, or develop the qualities of good sportsmanship and behaving with dignity when things didn’t go your way.

So their earliest years, a critical time for free play and exploration, was given over to parent-arranged activities, with frequent adult input, and adult-selected playmates, adult-imposed solutions.

 These people as parents seem to have little if any grasp of developmental psychology or biology. They don’t seem to get how the imagination is a huge feature of early childhood, or the fact that the child’s brain is still actively forming and developing, and it will be years before they are capable of adult-level thinking. Years before the frontal cortex is finished at age 23-25.

There’s a reason children are not allowed to make their own legal and medical decisions. Why they’re not allowed to vote, operate complex machinery, or drive, even if they could do so without being able to reach the pedals.

When young children announce “I’m a horse”! Or "I'm Superman"! It doesn’t mean they’re expressing a wish to be implemented permanently for the rest of their lives, and for which they have no ability to even begin to comprehend what that means.

It’s NORMAL for young children to pretend they are someone they are not – it’s a key feature of the young child’s development. A little boy announcing he’s a girl, or Wonder Woman, or some other female, a little girl pretending she’s a boy because she likes to play with the cool “boy” stuff, is a normal developmental event. It does NOT mean the child is “trans”, or was “born in the wrong body.”

And what is the agenda of those asserting such nonsense, and hiding behind their professional titles to do so? Attention? Funding? Peer approval? Or something more insidious?

The acolytes of this cult of gender woo have wormed their way into every level of public life, especially public schools. The NGOs promoting this unproven theory have an open door to present this ludicrous storyline from the preschool level on up. They are misleading children, and confusing children with concepts that are beyond their ability to evaluate and question.

Young children generally believe adults without question, or try to, to the best of their abilities. Hence the push from these acolytes to access the youngest children possible.

Gender ideology, while claiming to support people “being who they are”, is in fact based on the oldest and most tired sex-based stereotypes of human behavior: Blue is for boys, pink is for girls. Toy trucks and tractors are for boys. Dolls and easy-bake ovens are for girls. Boys like building things. Girls like pretending to be mothers. Boys are strong and aggressive. Girls like to look pretty and cheer them on. And some of that can be seen in children’s play, but what seems to be ignored are all the kids who also like to play and pretend things outside these limited stereotypes.

But according to gender ideologists, any child not conforming to these limited, rigid sex-based stereotypes is possibly someone who should be evaluated for social “transition” as soon as possible. And of course what follows THAT? Medical transition, with puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones for life (and the attendant serious side effects, sterility, and inability to ever orgasm), and/or surgery. 

This. Is. Nuts.