Hank Monk

Great page.
Well, rather than laughing, it makes me feel a chill running down my spine, I think.

I didn't think you were one for these kinds of listens :)

Sure! Please provide the text you'd like me to translate.

Never followed them too closely, but in the beginning, they had that something that reminded me of Pavement that I liked. Since they switched to that kind of indie electronic sound, I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm really allergic to those vibes.

Beautiful review.
I had never thought of interpreting the title that way. I think you are right all the way through.

For the end of childhood, everyone has their own moment.
As for me, I don't know if it coincided with the discovery of my own non-immortality. I’ll have to think about it.

I take the liberty of responding to hopeless's comment, more for myself as I find myself becoming more conservative in recent years compared to mainstream progressivism, and I would like to understand if the disease of Nazism is affecting me :).

I’ll start with a monomaniacal preface to justify my underlying doubts and also because I reread the comments I wrote the other day from my phone, and they make no sense :)

1. On the economic/social issue, I have always been very interested. I often discuss it with people who work in macroeconomics, all much more socialist than I am (who am not a Marxist). For anyone dealing even marginally with these issues, it is evident how the progressivism of “we're all together in a single super-European state, peace love, and 70 years of peace" has been the Trojan horse for imposing anti-social policies. Globalism has always been opposed by certain socialism that has always reminded us how a world without borders is the dream of capitalism because it makes people rootless stateless commodities (okay, I’m simplifying). Great forced unions (the USSR being the most recent example, which I believe was not painted very differently from the EU in Russian propaganda) have never been democratic. Conversely, since after the war and with the easing of tensions in certain parts of the world and the increase in democracy, there has been an increase in nation-states. Because true freedom is self-determination, possible in a world with fair market rules. Well, this economic system, which is passed off as false progressivism, has a whole ideological and propaganda apparatus that also affects schools (I provided some examples above).

This preface is to say: is progressivism always positive? Can it be used as a Trojan horse to impose policies that are, in fact, ultra-conservative and detrimental to the community? OR OF COURSE.

Well. Therefore, I completely understand those who fear that a rethinking of the very concept of family or a "liquid" society could be "pushed" to break the very core of society and make it even more individualistic (my generation compared to that of my grandparents is Abyssally more "fluid" and individualistic under the pressure of consumerism) and manipulable. Then there are Christians who will have their fears due to their beliefs.

Does all this have to do with gender issues? With the recognition of people's identities? No.

And this is precisely what makes the gospel of certain figures like the one you mentioned dangerous. And it is EXACTLY so because starting from a founded fear, it then unleashes its hatred towards a minority. Mixing topics on different levels is what really makes certain positions dangerous.

This is why I have become disgusted with the blind progressivism of our times, which is equally responsible for the possible drifts of society, just as much as certain characters. Because even that ignorant progressivism that justifies anything muddles arguments on various levels and planes, speaking more to the gut than to the brain, and mixing identities and sacred civil rights with others that are not recognized as rights by any statute (like the right to be parents, for example; I gave the same example some time ago with the right to economic migration).

And so it finally leads one to ask: those who throw smoke bombs like this, from both sides, are they not playing on the same team? On this particular issue, I don’t have an opinion since these are not problems I have ever reflected upon (I just go vote in referendums that one time in my life), but on other issues, like the examples I mentioned, I am certain that yes, they are playing on the same team.

(excuse me, I always make a mess and can’t write in a single post)

...BUT it also has many flaws (socialism identified issues related to consumerism, for example, and there’s the issue of patriarchy which surely has contributed to the perpetuation of etc. etc.).
So, to conclude, that "the gender issue" CAN influence the order of things is not at all a nonsense to me (rather an obvious truth).
Therefore, a reflection on "gender issue" related to "how can this progress change the order of things?" I find entirely legitimate.

Then, of course, if the theme of the book was: The reptilian Martians want to subjugate us through the gender issue SO let’s burn and discriminate AGAINST everyone who isn’t heterosexual well, it’s clear that’s a delusion worthy of being kicked in the mouth.

Then, to be honest, I also have doubts about stigmatizing the cited article regardless.
IN THE SENSE (don’t label me a Nazi right away)
- it’s obvious that the family, as a social and economic cellular nucleus, is also a part that contributes to the social order of things (I said social, not natural, see? :)). Everyone has discussed this, starting from socialism.
- so it is indeed TRUE that the "gender issue," in itself, going (as a consequence) to change interpersonal relationships, making them more fluid (? well, that depends and isn't strictly related to the gender issue) also acts on the concept of family.

And this is a reflection that makes perfect sense to be considered (and has indeed always been considered), and it’s also true that it is not at all linked (exclusively) to the gender issue. The "Christian family" has many advantages for social and economic consolidation (grandparents passing down their truth to children and grandchildren, who are therefore less manipulable by a propagandistic school system, grandparents supporting children and grandchildren with pensions and vice versa, etc., etc.)

a bit of a silly thing but I didn't mind it too much. It's light and goes by quickly.

Touching story that reminds me of Roth's "The Human Stain." Always great.