Autistic Barbie
But Mattel’s blurb gives the game away – ‘Every child deserves to see themselves in Barbie.’ Children with autism cannot see themselves. Children with autism cannot see Barbie. Children with autism cannot see themselves in Barbie.
But Mattel’s blurb gives the game away – ‘Every child deserves to see themselves in Barbie.’ Children with autism cannot see themselves. Children with autism cannot see Barbie. Children with autism cannot see themselves in Barbie.
The “reign of quantity” (Guenon) helped set the Great Reset agenda in motion. The human body—that sacred temple of spirit, that privileged site of the sovereign freedom of the individual person—was mercilessly reduced to sets of numbers.
It is all the more imperative that, instead of shrinking back in fear when we behold the nightmare, we confront it. The act of doing so openly instead of ignoring it, effectively denying its existence, is an act of resisting it.
Appreciation of structures and arrangements requires precisely the same baseline aptitude that is required by appreciation of thoughts and feelings – and it is this baseline aptitude that autistic people lack.
One of the pernicious conceits of our age is the idea that by declaring oneself irreligious, one is immediately freed from the longings for transcendence that have fueled religious practice among humans since the beginning of our experience here on earth.
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We must systematically educate lawyers and judges so that they can rule fairly in lawsuits related to psychiatry. Judge Picard’s biases and lack of courage in this verdict were one of the causal factors that led to Nathalie’s suicide.
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Parity’s intentions were compassionate. Its effects are corrosive. The answer is not cruelty but correction: fund recovery, not lifelong maintenance; support communities, not bureaucracies; reward healing, not helplessness. Addiction is a detour, not a destiny.
A population filled with defensive, hyper-sensitive, and fear-corseted young is the tyrant class’s fondest dream. One made up of young people possessed of a sense of their essential worthiness is that same group’s biggest nightmare.
Every teenage girl convinced that her emotions are symptoms is being severed from power that terrifies those who would control us. Every dose of SSRIs is a vote for a world where human intuition is replaced by expert opinion.
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The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at one point or another in their life, come to realize is their own cosmic insignificance.
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In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.
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