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Apr 16Liked by Unbekoming

I was a Harvard undergrad from 1986 to 1991, spending most of my time in the English dept due mostly to its wide-ranging course of study. I found myself in Lit Theory courses as a result of my longing to understand more deeply exactly how language might be used to approach ever more closely those liminal experiences one might best call Art. But - Ha!- the joke was on me - bc the department was fully in the post-modern thrall. As a young student I naively understood these "tools" of "reading text" to be some kind of pretend nihilism game which was ultimately meant to bring us toward a better, more inclusive sense of reconstructed and stable truth. In my sincere-and-so-serious youthful optimism, I wrote silly papers which tried out these tools to "deconstruct" things like contemporary music lyrics --- but then to *reconstruct* them into familiar archetype and *culture-affirming* stories. I had almost forgotten all that - but in these last few years the penny has finally dropped as to why that one professor in particular had no use for my accidentally irreverent input... Now I understand how deadly serious they all were, and ultimately how dangerous. Now I cannot unsee what I missed at the time and what now is in front of us all: like Baric's Frankensteined monster that lurched out of Wuhan, Foucault's many post-modern, Marxist monsters have also blundered over the ivy covered walls of the thought labs at the elite Universities and are wreaking havoc both within them - and of course on the larger world. One can only hope that our collective cultural immune system will overcome the infections.

Please keep up your work! It is helping us all to build this collective immune response, one exposure at a time

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Clearly, society has turned against the absolute truth of our creator. God, Almighty.

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Yep. The root cause is a spiritual one.

"...they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools," (Romans 1)

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Childhood innocence was recognized long before the concept of 'psychology' or function of 'psychologist' was invented.

Parents never needed 'psychologists' to explain "developmental milestones' or 'age appropriateness' or tell them how to protect their children from predators.

The way to raise normal, healthy children in intact families was passed on from generation to generation without outside intervention from self-appointed 'specialists.' Children who departed from the norm were redirected and assimilated by natural social measures that taught them how to survive.

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The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Old Testament Prophet. Seems these queer types have rode hard in the lane of corruption so that now they are precursors to the conditions present in ancient Israel during the reign of Ahab and his pagan wife Jezebel. Read what Elijah had to confront during that fateful time and the remedy he employed. He dealt a blow to the entire corrupt culture with death by fire. Jezebel ended up in the steeet being eaten by dogs. To a Mr Lee Edelman(?). With all due respect: Fuck you.

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Add blue light into the mix, which disrupts hormones and to which children are exposed to the most via screens, and you've paved the way to them being programmed:

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/techmyth

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Terrific read as always. What comes to mind for me when I consider this whole bizarre queering scene is a tribe of primitives examining a modern engine or other complex piece of machinery. In their impotent frustration to understand, or in their naive arrogance, they decide to pull the whole thing apart to learn what makes it “go”. When they learn that this completely destroys the item, they cry and wail, by then still dream of reassembling the item into something that fits their image. It’s broken beyond repair, but now suits their own primitive frame of reference.

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WOW! try juxtaposing the contents and context of this here discourse with the Thunder Perfect Mind Poem to grasp how language can be perniciously "queered" . . . "f*d up" incrementally like the frog in the boiling pot analogy!

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In this article, https://www.medscihypotheses.com/abstract/index/idArt/907698 Professor Vithoulkas explains his observations of treating 1000's of people. The healthiest people were frequently born of parents who had their first sexual encounter during their conception. He stresses that if we could discourage youth from "experimenting" with sex and waited until they were ready to commit to someone, they would have healthier offspring.

Which flies in the face of experimenting in the queer space first.

Religious paths always look at sex as the means for procreation. The above article proves this to have sound scientific reasoning.

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