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And Jordan Peterson’s take on the evolution of that primary tumour is well worth listening to here:
In sum: Why the hell are we subsidising revolution?
tdf
pete wrote:
This is one of the reasons (and I speak as a devoted Freud nerd) that I am deeply sceptical about the media orgasm over Prince Harry and his decision to seek professional help for his “mental health†problems. He suffered a tragedy as a child, and I feel deeply for him, as I would for any child who suffered a similar shocking bereavement. But I do not think he is mentally ill, nor do I think he is any more vulnerable than anyone else. I think he was unhappy and distressed. In other words, under the circumstances, completely normal.
Gushing incontinently in public about your feelings is not therapeutic. It simply encourages other people to imagine that their ordinary human adversities are mental health issues, when they are really ineluctable features of the human condition. We are mortal beings, after all. We will all suffer bereavements, we will all have to face our own deaths and we will all have to struggle with how to live decently and ethically with these unavoidable conditions.
This may seem like a digression but I think it’s an inherent part of the “vulnerable†assumption peddled by PC victimologists. Yes, we are all vulnerable to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. No one is immune. The much-derided stiff upper lip may actually help us outface them or at least endure them with dignity and hope.
The gushing about feelings, the assumption that tearful accusations of sexual wrongdoing should be presumed truthful from the outset, are part and parcel of the same emotive assault on reason, truth and justice. Paul Settle, Harvey Proctor, Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, Jimmy Tarbuck, Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini, Jonathan King – the list of falsely accused people simply continues to grow.
Granted the power (which of course will never happen), I would personally begin by withdrawing all funding from the primary tumour from which many of these malevolent and malignant tendencies have flowed: university Women’s Studies, whose numerically tiny vanguards have spawned pervasively pernicious myths like rape culture and patriarchal paedophilia. Pernicious myths which police officers appear to be have been indoctrinated into accepting.
The culture of victimhood fosters a form of self-idealising, self-indulgent narcissism which I believe makes its inherently paranoid devotees exceedingly vindictive and cruel.
Pete, inclined to agree with you.
If one were a conspiracy theorist, one might suggest that the Windsors' PR handlers have cleverly timed the 'Prince Harry's brave confession' story to take attention from a book recently published about Prince Charles.
pete
The official (mis)treatment of this decent and honest cop has been little short of wicked, while the treatment of disturbed and deceitful fruitcakes like ‘Darren’ and ‘Nick’ has been preposterously reverential.
How have we reached this terrible predicament, in which a thoughtful and experienced officer like DCI Settle has been subject to 15 months of hell at the hands of a lying fruitcake, while credulous, politically correct imbeciles like DS Kenny McDonald, the man who pre-emptively decided that the equally dishonest and possibly mad boy-rape obsessive “Nick” was “credible and true,” appear to walk away from this incalculably costly debacle unscathed?
I can only speculate. It seems to me that at least one generation of young people has been pressurised into believing that they are perpetually endangered and vulnerable creatures, in need of safe spaces and trigger warnings whenever a ‘microaggression’ is imagined to be approaching. They have not, in other words, been encouraged to grow up, a process which inevitably involves outfacing your aversions and fears and taking full responsibility for your own actions and beliefs.
This is one of the reasons (and I speak as a devoted Freud nerd) that I am deeply sceptical about the media orgasm over Prince Harry and his decision to seek professional help for his “mental health” problems. He suffered a tragedy as a child, and I feel deeply for him, as I would for any child who suffered a similar shocking bereavement. But I do not think he is mentally ill, nor do I think he is any more vulnerable than anyone else. I think he was unhappy and distressed. In other words, under the circumstances, completely normal.
Gushing incontinently in public about your feelings is not therapeutic. It simply encourages other people to imagine that their ordinary human adversities are mental health issues, when they are really ineluctable features of the human condition. We are mortal beings, after all. We will all suffer bereavements, we will all have to face our own deaths and we will all have to struggle with how to live decently and ethically with these unavoidable conditions.
This may seem like a digression but I think it’s an inherent part of the “vulnerable” assumption peddled by PC victimologists. Yes, we are all vulnerable to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. No one is immune. The much-derided stiff upper lip may actually help us outface them or at least endure them with dignity and hope.
The gushing about feelings, the assumption that tearful accusations of sexual wrongdoing should be presumed truthful from the outset, are part and parcel of the same emotive assault on reason, truth and justice. Paul Settle, Harvey Proctor, Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, Jimmy Tarbuck, Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini, Jonathan King – the list of falsely accused people simply continues to grow.
Granted the power (which of course will never happen), I would personally begin by withdrawing all funding from the primary tumour from which many of these malevolent and malignant tendencies have flowed: university Women’s Studies, whose numerically tiny vanguards have spawned pervasively pernicious myths like rape culture and patriarchal paedophilia. Pernicious myths which police officers appear to be have been indoctrinated into accepting.
The culture of victimhood fosters a form of self-idealising, self-indulgent narcissism which I believe makes its inherently paranoid devotees exceedingly vindictive and cruel.
JK2006
But not what British police bosses want to hear. "You will NOT be believed".
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