It is probably a common thought among many, and one I held until today, that the wave of absurdity, incompetence and willful ignorance is a recent phenomenon fueled by, as the great Maha Rushie (PBUH) used to say, “young skulls full of mush.”
If that is true, how can the downfall of our learned and trusted institutions be explained?
For example, the CDC was once the unquestioned gold standard of public health research and information – and it isn’t run by people the same age as Sam Bankman-Fried. The people there are highly credentialed, multi-degreed doctors, researchers, and scientists.
Look at the ages of some of the cast of characters:
Anthony Fauci - 81
Rochelle Walensky – 53
Francis Collins – 72
Deborah Birx – 66
How about in woke ESG based finance? It is the same, these are not freshly minted MBAs running around telling everybody what they are doing wrong and trying to change everything:
Larry Fink (Blackrock) – 70
Mortimer J. Buckley (Vanguard) – 53
Ronald P. O'Hanley (State Street Capital) – 64
Full disclosure – Vanguard has pulled back on ESG – like within the past 24 hours.
How about operating companies in corporate America?
Rodney McMullen (CEO of Kroger) – 62
Jeff Bezos (Amazon) – 58
Jim Farley (Ford) – 60
Ginni Rometty (IBM) - 65
So, no spring chickens by any stretch. You would think they and the boards of directors greenlighting such stuff would know better.
Why would seasoned executives, all with long careers in capitalist economies, suddenly decide that men can be women if they want it bad enough, everybody and everything is racist, the most important things kindergarten kids need to learn about are transsexualism, dildos and butt plugs and their investors and customers are the enemy?
What possible rational self and company interest drives such behaviors?
And I’m only slightly exaggerating.
Well, I’m just spit balling here, but we have heard of mass formation psychosis, sort of a form of mass hysteria, so why couldn’t we call this phenomenon “mass formation narcissism”? Wouldn’t that seem to fit?
These are all people who apparently want the love and respect of their peer group so much that they are willing to put their careers and companies at risk to get them. That’s the only explanation I have for so many educated, seemingly normal people jumping at the chance to commit Hari-kari in the most absurd of ways.
But one can go too far trying to sit at the cool kid’s table.
Serial lockdownist and Ukrainian education expert, Randi Weingarten, tweeted “What a great relief!!! Extraordinary news, a basketball star, but also a gay, black woman is released."
Never mind that U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan, who had been sentenced to a Russian prison for 16 years on espionage charges and has already served 4, is white, heterosexual and not a WNBA player.
Weingarten’s tweet shows just how far they will go to be in Club Narcissium. They are so eager to be in so they can be protected by the other narcissists.
Anyway, that’s the only explanation I have.
Oh, wait. There is another explanation.
They are all Democrats.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
"de-population"
The arms dealer has more chance to cause more deaths which de-populates.
With odumbo my mantra was to preface every decision with "what's worse for America?"
But we're past that now. Now you can preface every decision with "what accomplishes the most chance at de-population?"
Go ahead, just use that preface and with every decision biden has made, all the woke stuff, covid and the trans stuff.
It all moves the needle towards "de-population".
Once again you have misspelled Dimocrat.