Six items to outline the zeitgeist for June 23rd, 2023

1. While its true that the underwater adventure company had a tragedy that cost the lives of the owner and several people who paid a quarter million to be onboard, we can all take comfort in the fact that the company recently decided to stop hiring experienced middle aged white guys and go for a proper diversity hire.

2. James Lindsay on why corporations are going along with the Woke agenda. Personally, I think the take away from this is the end game is to have the public take apart corporations through boycotts due to these same corporations being forced to take part in woke BS by the NGOs they are indebted to. In other words, we destroy our own culture and choices for them.

3. Fundamental rights are now gifts of the state

4. A Pediatrician’s Manifesto for the Modernization of Gender Medicine

[…] This is the paraphrase of a real conversation that I overheard. I am a pediatrician specializing in the care of hospitalized children. One of the most common reasons a trans-identifying teenage female becomes hospitalized is due to attempted suicide through medication overdose. My seven years of rigorous training in medical school and pediatric residency were steeped in the principles of Modern medicine. However, I’m increasingly confronted with the sense that my profession is drifting away from its modernity. I believe medicine is being “queered,” or Postmodernized. Let me clarify.

There exist diverse metanarratives about health and healing globally. The mainstream form of allopathic medicine, typically referred to as “Western Medicine,” presumably stands in contrast to “Eastern Medicine” or other alternatives. This categorization suggests parity between “Western” and “Eastern” or “alternative” medicine, implying all these different metanarratives are equally valid. However, I would contend it is more accurate to place medicine as practiced around the world into three categories: “Premodern,” “Modern,” and “Postmodern.” The distinction should be based on underlying philosophy rather than incidental geography or ethnicity.

Examples of Premodern medicine would encompass practices such as attributing illnesses to witchcraft, consuming tiger penises to increase virility, or cannibalizing albino people’s body parts to gain health and good fortune. These practices, rooted in superstition rather than empirical evidence, were once common worldwide, including in the Western world, and they still exist in various forms today. On the other hand, Modern medicine, typically practiced at your local hospital or clinic, is a product of the Enlightenment, prioritizing reason, science, and individual sovereignty. It transcends geographical boundaries and ethnic divides, benefiting humanity globally.

Postmodern medicine seems to have a particular foothold in the West, especially in the United States, where it has become institutionalized. It is relatively new but is embedded in multiple American medical societies and medical schools. While it leverages the same technologies as Modern medicine, thereby superficially resembling it, it fundamentally seeks to dismantle Modern medicine’s underlying philosophy. While Postmodern medicine is being propagated across American medical schools through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bureaucracies, nothing exemplifies Postmodernity more than the gender ideology that drives the American “gender-affirming” model of care.

(This article is very good. Someone who actually gets and explains the gestalt of it well. The only argument here would be is this postmodern medicine, or is it dialectical medicine. The answer is both of course. Much of the theory behind the gender stuff comes from postmodern thinkers who would be better described as psychopaths determined to take pleasure in the suffering of the most innocent and adepts at justifying and spreading that practice. It is also used to move the culture and state ever leftwards with the children increasingly under the control of the state and any attempt at parental determination of the children’s life decisions is criminalized. The children belong to the state now to the extent that the state can through its most minor agents like a kindergarten teacher, cause your children to turn themselves into monsters and there is bugger all you as a parent can do about it.

5. 41yo model and Hollywood actress Katerina Pavelek ended her life at an assisted suicide clinic in Basel, Switzerland on June 17, 2023, due to COVID-19 vaccine booster injuries (ME, CFS, ALS)

6. BREAKING: Hunter Biden text says Joe Biden was in the room when he demanded cash from Chinese oligarch

(And the oligarchs seek to humiliate us on top of the injuries they do, as this information gets out, and nothing will be done about any of it or worse, a transparent bit of political or legal theatre will be done to remind us all of how punishment is only for peasants, and how very little we matter)

As part of whistleblower statements made public on Thursday, it has been revealed that Joe Biden was allegedly in the room when Hunter Biden was demanding money from China.

The WhatsApp message, obtained by whistleblower Gary Shapley and his team at IRS Criminal Investigation from July 30, 2017, was between Hunter Biden and CEO and President of Harvest Fund Management Henry Zhao, who has ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith:

“Recurring unjustified delays pervaded the investigation, including authenticating a WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden demands payment from Chinese officials, noting that his father is in the room.”pic.twitter.com/xWDDeFHBzZ

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 22, 2023

(Stories like this remind me of an old Wizard of Id comic from the 70s or earlier. In it, the king asks the Wizard, “I am thinking of creating a new tax that would allow me to attach a lien on the property of the vassals if they don’t pay their taxes. What would we call such a document?” The punchline writes itself. Except today, we won’t even get the benefit of a lubricant.)