The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
So spending decades standing on stage and shouting about your twat leaves you Billy No Mates, does it?
Who knew?
The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
So spending decades standing on stage and shouting about your twat leaves you Billy No Mates, does it?
Who knew?
So, Eve is now V, eh? My puerile mind is now constructing a fantasy of her meeting Dennis and they can become…
I have been thinking about fascism long before I even knew I was thinking about it…
I wonder what is the specific psychological impact of Project 2025 – of knowing there are fascist forces who openly and proudly devised a 920-page “policy bible” meant to undo every hard-earned right, every safeguard that protects women, African Americans, workers, elderly, the infirm, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, Muslims – essentially everyone.
Leaving aside that this is a lie, and that Project 2025 is just a think tank, it’s laughable that she prtends not to know that the actual fascists – according to the fucking dictionary definition – is the party which controls the media, which is trying to control social media, which is using the law enforcement apparatus to target its political enemies, which spews lies and propaganda 24/7, and which is entwined with big business esp big pharma. And that ain’t the GOP.
You have it all wrong, Interested, they are doing it to save Democracy. No matter what the voters want.
@rhoda
They’re doing it to save our precious bureaucracy!
Meanwhile, without much (any?) debate, we’re just signing up to ‘the first legally binding international AI treaty’.
“This Convention is a major step to ensuring that these new technologies can be harnessed without eroding our oldest values, like human rights and the rule of law,” Britain’s justice minister, Shabana Mahmood, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, mothers are being denied bail while they await three and four year sentences for noticing immigration and expressing their concerns about it on Facebook. As we all know, not being allowed to disagree with the state and its minions is one of our oldest and most precious ‘values’.
https://archive.is/qb9nX#selection-1423.1-1423.230
“What happens to our hearts when we are encased in a field of malevolence and hatred that daily threatens our stability and peace?”
Dunno. But if you’re in a war zone, be grateful you still have a working computer.
What degree of self-absorption does it take to shed seven eighths of one’s name and think that one has reinvented one’s identity or that anyone else cares?
I have been thinking about fascism long before I even knew I was thinking about it.
She slipped off the seat and cracked her head.
“V for Vagina,” she thought, gesturing towards her dusty, stalactite-filled ladycave.
Steve
Genuine ROFL on that one
I’m intrigued by this article actually, especially given the fresh presence on the site of overt anti-semites as of yesterday.
I think of what Toni Morrison wrote of racism: “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.”
I’d agree with this – the constant cacophony of bullshit about ‘White Privilege’ and ‘White Supremacy’ which issues forth from every DEI seminar, and is institutionalized across all sectors is very wearing indeed.
I wonder what is the specific psychological impact of Project 2025 – of knowing there are fascist forces who openly and proudly devised a 920-page “policy bible” meant to undo every hard-earned right, every safeguard that protects women, African Americans, workers, elderly, the infirm, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, Muslims – essentially everyone.
Here’s Project 2025 in a nutshell:
Policies include:
– Secure the border, finish the wall, and deport Illegal Aliens
– De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
– Unleash American Energy production to reduce energy prices
– cut the growth of government expenditure to reduce inflation
– Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected president and congress
– Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
– Ban biological males from competing in women’s sports
If any element of the above is ‘fascist’ then you have devoided the term of any real meaning.
What happens to our hearts and our capacity for connection and trust when we are encased in a field of malevolence and hatred which daily threatens our stability and peace? To know people mean to harm us, that they have no shame putting that desire on paper. What does this do to our psyches? How do our bodies process such hate, violence and cruelty? Who do we have to become in order to survive?
I’d echo this – knowing there are groups from a certain religion who want to kill or subjugate me. That the administration under which I live tolerates and encourages them for narrow electoral considerations. The same for environmental campaigners, ‘Tax justice’ advocates, DIE Appointees, Militant trans activists who want freedom to molest children. I am horrified that such people are not only out there but seem to have the prevailing zeitgeist in their favour.
Indigenous people and Black people have lived for hundreds of years in this landscape of precarity, capture, terror and violence
Most slavery now is done outside the US. Maybe she wants to learn some more recent history
Now we are in late-stage patriarchy, where autocrats are being born and bred at the speed of light; where workers’ rights are being dismantled and child labor laws are weakened;
Whereas instead we subject children to Drag Queen story times and are on the verge of permitting post birth abortion beyond the 39 week limit. That’s how much we care.
‘Where diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory programs that protected civil rights are being annihilated;’
DIE and CRT are highly toxic, not least to the interests of people from minorities – they are evil in a way I’d previously thought hypothetical, which is why their abolition fills me with some small grain of hope
where women are being pushed back into the dark ages (the 50s) and all the regulations that protect the Earth, the air, the water are unraveled.
As opposed to being erased from existence by militant Trans campaigners who want access to their changing rooms and prisons
Overall it’s a pretty superb inversion of reality – rather like V for Vendetta except her and her ilk are the John Hurt character and his supporters, rather than the Hugo Weaving character.
VP – what is Eve Ensler trying to tell us?
Hannah Arendt wrote about loneliness in the Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951: “What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience.”
In 2023, the US surgeon general declared that loneliness was the most serious mental health crisis facing Americans. This loneliness is a form of existential dislocation. It creates persistent anxiety, depression, depersonalization and distrust.
She’s lonely because she fucked up her life by not having children. Now she’s 71 and terrified of dying alone.
Many such cases! Oy veh!
My children are smiling at me, Ensler. Can you say the same?
So, Eve is now V, eh? My puerile mind is now constructing a fantasy of her meeting Dennis and they can become…
Mutually repulsed?
I wouldn’t get within 10 feet of her without a can of Raid in each hand.
This loneliness is a form of existential dislocation. It creates persistent anxiety, depression, depersonalization and distrust. It is not unlike an ongoing, low-level collective panic attack. A constant buzzing of unrest. Enemies are lurking everywhere. The ecosystem in which we live, the culture feels poisoned and uninviting. We no longer recognize the world as our world. We become withdrawn, estranged, feeling helpless and abandoned.
Lol. She’s literally describing the effect of ‘diversity’ on both local communities and whole Nations:
We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335924797_Ethnic_Diversity_and_Social_Trust_A_Narrative_and_Meta-Analytical_Review
Jon – Diversity is cancer.
“meant to undo every hard-earned right, every safeguard that protects women, African Americans, workers, elderly, the infirm, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, Muslims – essentially everyone.”
“Essentially everone”, but doesn’t include men, white people, Asians, Europeans, American Amercians, Pacificists, pensioners, the young, the healthy, hetro folks, residents, citizens, Christians, Buddists, Shintists, Jews – essentially everybody.
“meant to undo every hard-earned right, every safeguard that protects women, African Americans, workers, elderly, the infirm, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, Muslims – essentially everyone.”
A remarkably unaware admission as to who counts (and who doesn’t) in her world.
What makes this statement all the more amusing is the unstated fact that she spends between little and none of her time in the company of conservative women, conservative African Americans, ghetto African Americans, conservative LGBTQ+ folks, “workers”, the infirm, immigrants (and by that she and I both mean illegal aliens) or non-Westernized Muslims. I doubt she could be more provincial in outlook if she tried.
Does she now wear the mask? does she need it?
TG – For you.
I have been thinking about fascism long before I even knew I was thinking about it…
I doubt it. Doubt if she even understands what it is. But she might get to see some in the real & raw, things carry on how they’re going. By then it’ll be a welcome improvement.
Apparently American single women are the only demographic group in which the majority vote Democrat. So she is actually correct that loneliness is a danger to democracy.