As IF Times

Source: Female athletes crushed by ‘women who were once men’

It’s not as if we couldn’t see this coming from awaaaay off on the horizon.  When the most fundamental aspect of nature becomes a matter of subjective opinion rather than objective fact, you know that all paradigms of normality are at risk.

In any case, the blurring of lines as to whom is eligible to compete in what category of sports is but one of the many bizarre problems facing society.  If you can’t even determine the line separating the sexes, then what chance do any other societal norms have? As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, having any categories of separation in sports will soon be obsolete if present trends continue.  The good news is that there will be a drastic re-ordering of professional and amateur sports.  At the Olympics for example, the entire 2 week spectacle can be reduced to just a couple of days of intense competition since the male/female categories can be eliminated.  Of course, it’s only a matter of time before legitimately X-X chromasomed females decide that this arrangement effectively edges them out of all sports.  In that case, that would give rise to a possible 3rd category of participants….sort of like New Coke.

The greater problem, is the increasing acceptance of wishful fiction as fact. The phenomenom of men emulating women is already on full display if anyone paid any attention to what’s happening in the political realm.  Rather than politicians acting boldly and decisively for their constituents, they now display the  drama queen hysteria and pettiness classically seen in high school mean girls.  Now, nattering over the most picayune things, name calling  and cartoon characterizations of their rival politicos passes as political discourse.  The chest beating histrionics of neurotic actresses such as Streep, Dunham, Streisand and Judd, joined by the questionably chromasomed Baldwin, Colbert and Moore influences politicians to behave in the same hysterical way.  They have travelled so far into their world of delusion that they are unable to even recognize that they’ve lost the path back to reality.

It’s clear that some of the basic constructs of a civilized society are being denied or ignored by those that choose to live in their own reality, which would be fine, except that they insist everyone must also live in it.  It’s as if your crazy aunt with the 17 cats and bathes only in months that end in a ‘y’ wants to re-order how things are because well, the cats told her so.  Historical notions of law and order, science and logic are eschewed for notions more current and fashionable.  Instead of relying on precedent and education, they go with Al Gore’s famous explanation of ‘it’s like gravity, it just is’ type of logic.  In another time, these people would be coaxed nicely into a suit with extra long arms that tie at the back.  These days, we elect them to make laws.  The fact that we allow such people to create the reality for others is truly bizarre.

Source: Venezuela seizes bakeries amid bread shortage | Miami Herald

In 1957, Ayn Rand published what would become her most famous, (if gratuitously overwritten) work of literature depicting a dystopian scenario in which productive people are stripped of their ability to control the product of their industriousness.  Instead, the state decides what levels of production are appropriate, by whom and even to the detriment of the producer because  the “public good” trumped the needs of the productive individual.  As time goes on, innovative and productive endeavours stop, industries fail and the country spirals into poverty.

The cautionary message conveyed by this fictitious scenario in Atlas Shrugged has been lost on many societies since the appearance  of the now 70 year old classic novel.  The situation in Venezuela with the commandeering of bakers….bakers, could be lifted directly from the pages of the book.  Venezuela is blessed with an abundance of economic potential by virtue of ample oil resources.  Oil prices soared from under $20 dollars a barrel to over $120 at their peak before declining to the present $50 a barrel level.  This bounty of revenue should have created a windfall of wealth for the nation.  Yet, thanks largely to the ill advised adventures of their socialist ex-president Hugo Chavez,  the nation is barely solvent, with a crushing national debt while poverty and shortages plague the people there.  The government is restricting goods and services of all kinds and have now taken to policing bakers on their production.  It’s as if they were lottery winners that blew the windfall on booze and trinkets.

By comparison, we may observe that a couple of other nation states have managed to not just survive, but thrive economically with virtually no benefit of available commercial natural resources.  In the case of Israel, they have somehow turned  a few acres of arid sand, surrounded by permanently hostile neighbors, into an oasis of economic activity.  In the case of Japan, a bunch of islands bereft of natural resources, they are nevertheless among the world’s pre-eminent industrial nations.  In neither one of these two examples are the poor, the elderly and the sick, pushed into lives of desperation and poverty.  Oddly, we only see this type of poverty and desperation in nations that subscribe to centralized control and planning as the form of government.  Think Cuba.

In fact, throughout history, there are no examples of successful, centrally controlled, collective societies. None. Think of that.  We never hear of people risking their lives to get into nations such as Cuba, or Venezuela. Yet somehow, the notion that a benign and altruistic central authority represents the ideal form of government continues to be pushed to this day.  The historical failure of this mindset hasn’t quelled the ambitions of those that push for this dystopian oppression on an even larger scale.  Frighteningly, we see this impetus for  ‘world government’ coming from today’s ‘globalists’.  And therein lies the entire problem with people who have no sense of history and too much faith in unicorn theory.  They are like the slow kid in school that still answers 5, when asked the sum of  2 plus 2, despite having been told the correct answer 14 times.  In the absence of any successful precedent for their visions of a theoretical central bureaucracy manipulating the affairs of a nation-state, they cling to the idea that this time, it’s different.