Tuesday, June 04, 2019

TNR And Dystopian Familial Abolitionism; Or: Why It's Probably Better For Me To Just Stay Away From Lefty Publications Right Now

This'd seem like a parody if it weren't so horrifying.
Oh TNR...how low the mighty have fallen...
It's important to remember that, among the many horrors on which the left's lines of argument converge, one is destruction of the family. That's a fairly consistent ideal, in particular among Marxists and feminists. The general idea, of course, is that humans must be changed--changed so as to be like the left wants them.
This is just one of many things that old-school humanistic liberals ought to find grotesque and horrifying. I really don't understand how people who are really liberals can find contemporary progressivism at all congenial or even tolerable.
Also: "queer feminist theorist and geographer." No comment required, I hope.
I've usually tried to read stuff from both ends of the spectrum. Currently, however, it's easier for me to retain some semblance of my objectivity if I stay away from the lefty press.
Finally, all this kinda crap inevitably brings to mind the following passage from The Abolition of Man:
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please. In all ages, no doubt, nurture and instruction have, in some sense, attempted to exercise this power. But the situation to which we must look forward will be novel in two respects. In the first place, the power will be enormously increased. Hitherto the plans of educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted and indeed, when we read them — how Plato would have every infant “a bastard nursed in a bureau”, and Elyot would have the boy see no men before the age of seven and, after that, no women, and how Locke wants children to have leaky shoes and no turn for poetry— we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. But the man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique: we shall get at last a race of conditioners who really can cut out all posterity in what shape they please. 

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