I’m running a bit behind this week, so I’m reposting this from Twitter (July 2021). We could talk all day about prohibited and compelled speech, the campaign to undermine liberal science, defamation, disinformation, preference falsification, chilling effects... But what’s really been on my mind lately is something more basic: smothered intuition.
I must be more conservative than I think, because I have never lost touch with my intuition. And sometimes my intuition tells me that something is so wrong that I start thinking I am prejudiced.
I never believed that prostitution wasn't corrupting and damaging to female prostitutes. However, that doesn't mean that I believe that adults shouldn't be able to practice it if they want to. Undoubtedly, the women who go into it are damaged and desperate, but it is still their right.
What I find interesting, however, is that male prostitutes don't always feel exploited. In fact, many of them enjoy their work. This relates to the differences between men and women. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it has always struck me about women that they are protective of their bodies where sex is concerned, probably because they face the risk of becoming pregnant. It also seems to me that women have a mothering instinct that (for most of them) doesn't allow them to be as promiscuous as men are. I'm gay, and I have been with male prostitutes (hustlers) on just three occasions, and I can tell you that the hustler was in control of our interactions much more than I was.
So I'm a firm believer in sexual freedom, but I don't believe that everything that people do with that freedom is a positive thing.
Simply put: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984, Orwell
And from the opposite side of the political spectrum, similar sentiment:
"Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ’controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see." - Enoch Powell
I must be more conservative than I think, because I have never lost touch with my intuition. And sometimes my intuition tells me that something is so wrong that I start thinking I am prejudiced.
I never believed that prostitution wasn't corrupting and damaging to female prostitutes. However, that doesn't mean that I believe that adults shouldn't be able to practice it if they want to. Undoubtedly, the women who go into it are damaged and desperate, but it is still their right.
What I find interesting, however, is that male prostitutes don't always feel exploited. In fact, many of them enjoy their work. This relates to the differences between men and women. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it has always struck me about women that they are protective of their bodies where sex is concerned, probably because they face the risk of becoming pregnant. It also seems to me that women have a mothering instinct that (for most of them) doesn't allow them to be as promiscuous as men are. I'm gay, and I have been with male prostitutes (hustlers) on just three occasions, and I can tell you that the hustler was in control of our interactions much more than I was.
So I'm a firm believer in sexual freedom, but I don't believe that everything that people do with that freedom is a positive thing.
Simply put: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984, Orwell
And from the opposite side of the political spectrum, similar sentiment:
"Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ’controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see." - Enoch Powell
Very much the Bernays method of propaganda: creating carefully-calculated associations between the subconscious fears and desires of individuals...
It's not always covert or the "soft sell", that they use to get you to ignore your intuitions.
Some of their biggest cudgels are Money and Threats...the carrot and the stick.
Matt Walsh reveals how Vanderbilt openly uses both in the 2 videos clips below in his twitter feed.
Both are disturbing, but the second video should scare the hell out of you and piss you off, simultaneously.
Remember,, this is just the two incidences that caught at one Med college.
This is just the two cockroaches they saw scurrying around the kitchen floor...there are thousands of incidences like this happening RIGHT NOW.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392