Their Science. By David Strom.
It’s easy to roll one’s eyes at the sheer idiocy of academics, but it would be a mistake to dismiss their cultural power. The academia to established practice pipeline isn’t 50 or 100 years now, but a decade or less. …
The society we live in was first designed in obscure academic departments and became reality once it filtered through the MSM, Hollywood, corporate America, public schools. …
Who, even 10 years ago, would have predicted that we would be fighting a losing battle to prevent the mass sterilization and mutilation of a generation of kids? Did any of us expect to see a full blown pro-censorship movement being pushed by politicians and the MSM in America? I didn’t see it coming 10 years ago, although there were certainly hints. I assumed our culture could withstand the push, not collapse like a house of cards.
The COVID “emergency” accelerated everything, with the “Great Reset” coming out into the open. Surprising to me, again, was the collective shrug of the educated elite. I guess they figure it won’t be them condemned to eat bugs for protein.
All this, I believe, is at least partly the result of the credentialization of our economy. With few exceptions, entry into vast swathes of the American economy and climbing the societal ladder requires getting a college degree, and by definition getting a college degree requires submitting to the whims of academics. It is difficult to survive 4 (or more) years of college without at the very least mouthing the platitudes required by the institutional leaders. The DEI Stasi controls your fate, with expulsion from the economic elite if you dissent. …
It should scare you that the BMJ [British Medical Journal] — one of the most prestigious journals in the world — publishes this: …
I turn to queercrip as a way of defying a curative imaginary that dominates transplantation and in so doing examine the colonial, capitalist violence of present day living. …
This is, of course, pure nonsense. And as with all academic nonsense it is easy to dismiss. And doing so would be a mistake. That is exactly what we did when academics began deconstructing the concept of male and female — and doing so led us to the point where medicine became a principle tool for dehumanizing our children.
The article itself is hideously long, boring, borderline incomprehensible, and would have been perfectly in place in any number of critical theory journals a couple of decades ago.
But now it is in a medical journal. And not an obscure medical journal, but the BMJ. By itself the piece will have no impact, but as part of a movement to redefine what constitutes medical training it is significant. The goal is to undermine what we understand to be medicine, and more importantly the goal of medicine. When you make biology and bodies mere extensions of human will, personhood disappears. One becomes a mere social construct.
Their science is bought and paid for by their bureaucracy, which is paid for with compulsory taxes from us:
