Thank you to Mr. Lelievre for sharing his story. I wish him success in his future endeavors to counter the current narrative brewing on campuses. My wake up call came years before Covid when, after having other children successfully complete their degrees in higher education, my youngest daughter fell for the insanity and become a believer of the filth spewing from these institutions. She turned "trans" and there was no saving her until she woke up and exited the cult years later. It has been a slowly broiling frog on campuses for decades but with a captured media I was blindsided by this as are many parents. Youth are easily manipulated and traumatized allowing the monster to spin out of control. Today college entrance exams ask "gender questions," campus clinics dole out cross sex hormones, "wellness" assessments have morphed into data mining for gender identities, referrals are given to the local castration surgeons, and more. Please continue speaking out.
I have 4 daughters aged 6-13. I write to help me comprehend the dogma I’ve experienced in higher Ed and help my girls identify it at public school. How did your daughter wake up and extricate herself from trans ideology?
Your question is a good one but with what was an estrangement, I only know so much. I suspect in time I will learn more. I suspect it was love that ultimately brought her back. She also seemed to question many other narratives that are spinning today. I remember a female detransitioner who questioned others on this. They all came around after about 4-6 years. These though were late teens/ young adults when they began to dabble in this. What worries me the most is the young kids who never were permitted an adolescence. I think it might be different for them. They say in cults if people are not out in 10 years, they are less likely to extricate themselves. Then there are the families aiding and abetting this and this in the long run this can only tether someone to the lie it seems.
They also say there is commonly an 'aha' moment in cults and always questioning in the back of their mind. I would say read up on cults and propaganda. I spoke with our high school principal after this happened to warn her. This I was able to do where some places there is no chance of this. She listened and could not believe it either. But - she did believe that some people are 'trans.' That to me says a lot. The line will always move in favor of industry. Today the teachers are deciding who is 'trans.' I wonder if our conversation moved her in any way. A friend told me in her daughter's class at the same public high school years after mine had graduated that there were like 10 girls doing this. Becoming savvy on cults/ undue influence propaganda is helpful. And be very wary - cults do not discriminate.
Thank you for answering my question about such personal experiences. Love. Questioning the narratives. The more you learn the more you can love. I hear your point about teaching children such gender confusion. I agree. How our institutions (and their leaders) promote cultish untruths and exploit adolescence are what interest (and disturb) me. The normalizing of it. The partial answer is the education system promotes and rewards no assessment of poor ideas, of their effects. It’s like some districts can’t be burdened by the effects of harmful policies and bad ideas. To use basic logic and rhetoric to evaluate. The bureaucracy serves itself. Job security in the midst of this incentivized cult craze likely plays a role in any teacher or admin employee. With such a bleak picture, parental love seems a requirement and antidote for a child to discard the cultish craze and return to life.
My father was from Fort Colounge Quebec, though I grew up in Michigan. I did get to visit Quebec a few times, and have found through the last 4 years that a hand full of Canadians of conscience have been in the front line of standing up against movements that promote socialism. And all those truckers and supporters, as well. I applaud you all, with respect. As Dad said, repeatedly, 'Your freedom stops at the end of my nose'....now I see why he repeated it so often.
Dag, I can relate to this article. I am besieged by family & (friends long gone) who never hesitate to try to impress with their sheepskins as to the depth, length and breathe of their education, who never see the forest for the trees, to belittle if not from words then their actions or inactions, the disregard they have for a lowly high school graduate, like me. Crushed, by their own conceit.
I personally observe their lack of manners, a dead giveaway, in light of the fact they came from families who excelled in courtesy, warmth and generosity leaving no stone unturned in their endeavors to make one feel at home with all the hospitality you can imagine. All gone.
These college professors installed this superiority complex into dumbed down wannabes disallowed from having or even trying to express an original thought or idea, as tantamount to sacrilege. These Ivy Leaguers are stifling the very life of our future generations
I see it daily. Common sense, gone. Sanguine views, gone. Manners, gone. Cogent arguments, straight out of textbooks. Gray areas, nope, nonexistent. Could this be possible seen through a different lens? Nope, not possible, and I have a degree to prove I'm right. Even though that degree doesn't even come close to the subject matter, still nope. Mr Lelievre sees it better than me as he is living it. But I have engaged these folks for over 50 years now and it hasn't gotten much better, sorry to say. I met a graduate art student once who had no idea who Toulouse-Latrec was?????? Splain that to me like I'm a 4 year old.
Despite being only a High School graduate, I employed some critical thinking, enough to know not to succumb to the experimental inoculation. I was stunned at how other, more highly educated than I, ran in haste to get in line for it, most of whom do not ever bring up the subject now of course.... not a mention of the hardship I lived through as a result of my 'outlandish' decision, nor the betrayal of our Government here in Quebec.
Luc is a fine example of tenacity and good character...a person I strongly admire after reading about his trials and tribulations. Immense respect !
Good comment Wendy, I was right there with you. I can't say it was that difficult for me because I was prepared to stand my ground. I fought my way thru the 1st 2 years, too many confrontations, cops called, spent a night in jail, but I never complied with anything. And you're right about these "gifted" ones who seem to be shamed about taking the shot, now that the gig is up and the truth is known. If you open your eyes and ears. And that is critical thinking. We have it.
I was merely a quiet non complier ....was most incensed when they cancelled New Years Eve somewhere around noon on December 31 ! As our family had always gathered to celebrate, we decided to ignore the 8 pm curfew and gathered anyway through the evening up till about 10 pm which suited us well enough. One of the guest friends needed a lift so I volunteered to drive and thought, oh well, screw it ! Off we went. Streets were deserted ! I could hardly believe NO ONE out and about on such an occasion. Reached our destination and then I travelled back home without a care.
Really ! No police patrolling around as they somehow knew that everyone would obey. And so they were right ! Annoyingly right....it was like driving around on the moon. Damn it. Completely deserted.
You see things others do not, and therein lies the rub, for me. There is always ONE thing that stands out, completely devoid of common sense, that which if all would have done, would have crippled the narrative, which is not to say they wouldn't have come up with something else to cover that huge blunder, and that one thing was masks. On that issue, thru my experience of using one just one time, made me non-compliant. I simply could not breathe behind one.
Can you imagine how much better off we all could have been if all the Doctors had stood up against this one forced indignity they put us through that held no scientific validation ! I wore one where required just because I'm a law abiding citizen but feel angry and duped now...and when I think of them forcing masks on children at the time, I am incensed.
I am in the unique position of having BOTH an academic dropout's view of life AND an academic drop-in's view of life! I was never very much of an intellectual. I do not hold a candle to Luc and neither to many others on Substack. However, starting in 1980 and then again around 2001 I entered into some intellectual inquiry. So now I am both persons simultaneously. I slided (oopps! "slid") right through the undergraduate level with no major problems. But then, when I signed up for "the graduate program" it was Economics and I found out that Economics was all math. So I dropped out. Then, in Sept. 2001, just a few days before that great airplane event crashing into New York and D.C. and Pennsylvania I got an original idea in Economics. So two things happened in early Sept. of 2001: the violent event and my peaceful, intellectual event. Since then I have been somewhat intellectual. But the smart-ass high school punk is never very far!!!!#
I doubt you're a punk. I could never consider myself an intellectual. I just read, take notes, and read some more. My epiphany came on 9/11 albeit I lived thru extraordinary events in the 60's & 70's that put me in libraries a great portion of my life since the news media at that time was as bad as now and my gut was screaming out, NO, that can't be, makes no sense. Generally, I cut thru the pedantic with Occam's razorblade, otherwise I'd go blind reading all the BS put out there. But, once in a while, I can't suppress the urge to jump into a rabbit hole.
The thoughts and words of Hannah Arendt have never been more important than now. Your mention of the lockdowns and the deleterious effects they had on life and on freedom will be felt for decades (or until with West is defeated in the Final War). It reminded me of how one of Biden's DEI choices. Jennifer Granholm, determined that it was unsafe for Michigan peasants to leave their homes or to buy gardening supplies (while at the same time approving her husband's desire to be the only person in Michigan allowed to go fishing). Of course, Granholm is not the worst of Biden's insane choices. Sam Brinton comes to mind. So does Rachel Levine, Pete Buttigieg, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Needless to say, the most dangerous placement in the Biden Crime Syndicate is the assassin Kimberly Cheatle. She now has less than three months to complete her mission to murder President Trump.
Thank you for your frank discussion of your experiences while seeking to obtain a PhD. have been in higher academia since about 2005. What has transpired in the last 20 years is very disheartening. I can only hope that there will be increasing pushback against illiberal and censorious elements that currently have ascendancy. My heartfelt sympathy over the unfair and unethical treatment you received.
I read: See.... Spot.... Run.... speed so I will have to piecemeal the interview or play it in the background.
The preamble alone brought me to the steel I-beams between the eyes of the abject filth that academia is.
- I fell across the work of Gilbert Ling whose work on the human cell is unparalleled and interfered with and covered up at the highest levels. The Sodium/Potassium Pump as taught to me first in 1974 is an abject FANTASY that cannot work therefore the ENTIRE scope of biology is useless.
- I met a grad student at the University of ILL Annoyed who was studying cancer. I asked him "What CAUSES cancer." He said "We don't know" I asked, "If you don't know how can you CURE it?" he said "We're not looking to make it a managable disease."
- I read the first ten pages of Lida Mattman's textbook on Cell Wall Deficient Organisms and lost 45 years of academic 'knowledge'. The biggest problem for a musician is learning how to play improperly. When it becomes muscle memory you can't retrain youself to play the right way. I live in an academic shitzophrenia where everything I was taught was wrong, I taught myself all of the things that are right, but they constantly have headon collisions like the Keystone Cops and the two locomotives turning to scrap metal.
I can certainly tell anyone who asks "What is a woman?"... It is a human being with two "X" chromosomes... Period! And that is nothing more or less than elementary/middle-school biology.
Thank you to Mr. Lelievre for sharing his story. I wish him success in his future endeavors to counter the current narrative brewing on campuses. My wake up call came years before Covid when, after having other children successfully complete their degrees in higher education, my youngest daughter fell for the insanity and become a believer of the filth spewing from these institutions. She turned "trans" and there was no saving her until she woke up and exited the cult years later. It has been a slowly broiling frog on campuses for decades but with a captured media I was blindsided by this as are many parents. Youth are easily manipulated and traumatized allowing the monster to spin out of control. Today college entrance exams ask "gender questions," campus clinics dole out cross sex hormones, "wellness" assessments have morphed into data mining for gender identities, referrals are given to the local castration surgeons, and more. Please continue speaking out.
I have 4 daughters aged 6-13. I write to help me comprehend the dogma I’ve experienced in higher Ed and help my girls identify it at public school. How did your daughter wake up and extricate herself from trans ideology?
Your question is a good one but with what was an estrangement, I only know so much. I suspect in time I will learn more. I suspect it was love that ultimately brought her back. She also seemed to question many other narratives that are spinning today. I remember a female detransitioner who questioned others on this. They all came around after about 4-6 years. These though were late teens/ young adults when they began to dabble in this. What worries me the most is the young kids who never were permitted an adolescence. I think it might be different for them. They say in cults if people are not out in 10 years, they are less likely to extricate themselves. Then there are the families aiding and abetting this and this in the long run this can only tether someone to the lie it seems.
They also say there is commonly an 'aha' moment in cults and always questioning in the back of their mind. I would say read up on cults and propaganda. I spoke with our high school principal after this happened to warn her. This I was able to do where some places there is no chance of this. She listened and could not believe it either. But - she did believe that some people are 'trans.' That to me says a lot. The line will always move in favor of industry. Today the teachers are deciding who is 'trans.' I wonder if our conversation moved her in any way. A friend told me in her daughter's class at the same public high school years after mine had graduated that there were like 10 girls doing this. Becoming savvy on cults/ undue influence propaganda is helpful. And be very wary - cults do not discriminate.
Thank you for answering my question about such personal experiences. Love. Questioning the narratives. The more you learn the more you can love. I hear your point about teaching children such gender confusion. I agree. How our institutions (and their leaders) promote cultish untruths and exploit adolescence are what interest (and disturb) me. The normalizing of it. The partial answer is the education system promotes and rewards no assessment of poor ideas, of their effects. It’s like some districts can’t be burdened by the effects of harmful policies and bad ideas. To use basic logic and rhetoric to evaluate. The bureaucracy serves itself. Job security in the midst of this incentivized cult craze likely plays a role in any teacher or admin employee. With such a bleak picture, parental love seems a requirement and antidote for a child to discard the cultish craze and return to life.
My father was from Fort Colounge Quebec, though I grew up in Michigan. I did get to visit Quebec a few times, and have found through the last 4 years that a hand full of Canadians of conscience have been in the front line of standing up against movements that promote socialism. And all those truckers and supporters, as well. I applaud you all, with respect. As Dad said, repeatedly, 'Your freedom stops at the end of my nose'....now I see why he repeated it so often.
Dag, I can relate to this article. I am besieged by family & (friends long gone) who never hesitate to try to impress with their sheepskins as to the depth, length and breathe of their education, who never see the forest for the trees, to belittle if not from words then their actions or inactions, the disregard they have for a lowly high school graduate, like me. Crushed, by their own conceit.
I personally observe their lack of manners, a dead giveaway, in light of the fact they came from families who excelled in courtesy, warmth and generosity leaving no stone unturned in their endeavors to make one feel at home with all the hospitality you can imagine. All gone.
These college professors installed this superiority complex into dumbed down wannabes disallowed from having or even trying to express an original thought or idea, as tantamount to sacrilege. These Ivy Leaguers are stifling the very life of our future generations
I see it daily. Common sense, gone. Sanguine views, gone. Manners, gone. Cogent arguments, straight out of textbooks. Gray areas, nope, nonexistent. Could this be possible seen through a different lens? Nope, not possible, and I have a degree to prove I'm right. Even though that degree doesn't even come close to the subject matter, still nope. Mr Lelievre sees it better than me as he is living it. But I have engaged these folks for over 50 years now and it hasn't gotten much better, sorry to say. I met a graduate art student once who had no idea who Toulouse-Latrec was?????? Splain that to me like I'm a 4 year old.
Despite being only a High School graduate, I employed some critical thinking, enough to know not to succumb to the experimental inoculation. I was stunned at how other, more highly educated than I, ran in haste to get in line for it, most of whom do not ever bring up the subject now of course.... not a mention of the hardship I lived through as a result of my 'outlandish' decision, nor the betrayal of our Government here in Quebec.
Luc is a fine example of tenacity and good character...a person I strongly admire after reading about his trials and tribulations. Immense respect !
Good comment Wendy, I was right there with you. I can't say it was that difficult for me because I was prepared to stand my ground. I fought my way thru the 1st 2 years, too many confrontations, cops called, spent a night in jail, but I never complied with anything. And you're right about these "gifted" ones who seem to be shamed about taking the shot, now that the gig is up and the truth is known. If you open your eyes and ears. And that is critical thinking. We have it.
Well, you were certainly braver than I.
I admire your courageous defiance !
I was merely a quiet non complier ....was most incensed when they cancelled New Years Eve somewhere around noon on December 31 ! As our family had always gathered to celebrate, we decided to ignore the 8 pm curfew and gathered anyway through the evening up till about 10 pm which suited us well enough. One of the guest friends needed a lift so I volunteered to drive and thought, oh well, screw it ! Off we went. Streets were deserted ! I could hardly believe NO ONE out and about on such an occasion. Reached our destination and then I travelled back home without a care.
Really ! No police patrolling around as they somehow knew that everyone would obey. And so they were right ! Annoyingly right....it was like driving around on the moon. Damn it. Completely deserted.
I fear for the future every day.
You see things others do not, and therein lies the rub, for me. There is always ONE thing that stands out, completely devoid of common sense, that which if all would have done, would have crippled the narrative, which is not to say they wouldn't have come up with something else to cover that huge blunder, and that one thing was masks. On that issue, thru my experience of using one just one time, made me non-compliant. I simply could not breathe behind one.
Can you imagine how much better off we all could have been if all the Doctors had stood up against this one forced indignity they put us through that held no scientific validation ! I wore one where required just because I'm a law abiding citizen but feel angry and duped now...and when I think of them forcing masks on children at the time, I am incensed.
I am in the unique position of having BOTH an academic dropout's view of life AND an academic drop-in's view of life! I was never very much of an intellectual. I do not hold a candle to Luc and neither to many others on Substack. However, starting in 1980 and then again around 2001 I entered into some intellectual inquiry. So now I am both persons simultaneously. I slided (oopps! "slid") right through the undergraduate level with no major problems. But then, when I signed up for "the graduate program" it was Economics and I found out that Economics was all math. So I dropped out. Then, in Sept. 2001, just a few days before that great airplane event crashing into New York and D.C. and Pennsylvania I got an original idea in Economics. So two things happened in early Sept. of 2001: the violent event and my peaceful, intellectual event. Since then I have been somewhat intellectual. But the smart-ass high school punk is never very far!!!!#
I doubt you're a punk. I could never consider myself an intellectual. I just read, take notes, and read some more. My epiphany came on 9/11 albeit I lived thru extraordinary events in the 60's & 70's that put me in libraries a great portion of my life since the news media at that time was as bad as now and my gut was screaming out, NO, that can't be, makes no sense. Generally, I cut thru the pedantic with Occam's razorblade, otherwise I'd go blind reading all the BS put out there. But, once in a while, I can't suppress the urge to jump into a rabbit hole.
The most fun thing about academia is that the definitions are made out of vanishing silly putty.
The thoughts and words of Hannah Arendt have never been more important than now. Your mention of the lockdowns and the deleterious effects they had on life and on freedom will be felt for decades (or until with West is defeated in the Final War). It reminded me of how one of Biden's DEI choices. Jennifer Granholm, determined that it was unsafe for Michigan peasants to leave their homes or to buy gardening supplies (while at the same time approving her husband's desire to be the only person in Michigan allowed to go fishing). Of course, Granholm is not the worst of Biden's insane choices. Sam Brinton comes to mind. So does Rachel Levine, Pete Buttigieg, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Needless to say, the most dangerous placement in the Biden Crime Syndicate is the assassin Kimberly Cheatle. She now has less than three months to complete her mission to murder President Trump.
Thank you for your frank discussion of your experiences while seeking to obtain a PhD. have been in higher academia since about 2005. What has transpired in the last 20 years is very disheartening. I can only hope that there will be increasing pushback against illiberal and censorious elements that currently have ascendancy. My heartfelt sympathy over the unfair and unethical treatment you received.
This is the fundamental reason why it happened:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/IKkV7CYJmnmN/
Thanks for your reply, but the link hooked to a story on Monkeypox. Must be the homepage of this publication?
Thanks.
- Luc
Not particularly religious, but I do often find interesting items to ponder in the Book.
"For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie"
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Wonder if one could find an obvious trail of Paperclips?
Luc sent me here.
I read: See.... Spot.... Run.... speed so I will have to piecemeal the interview or play it in the background.
The preamble alone brought me to the steel I-beams between the eyes of the abject filth that academia is.
- I fell across the work of Gilbert Ling whose work on the human cell is unparalleled and interfered with and covered up at the highest levels. The Sodium/Potassium Pump as taught to me first in 1974 is an abject FANTASY that cannot work therefore the ENTIRE scope of biology is useless.
- I met a grad student at the University of ILL Annoyed who was studying cancer. I asked him "What CAUSES cancer." He said "We don't know" I asked, "If you don't know how can you CURE it?" he said "We're not looking to make it a managable disease."
- I read the first ten pages of Lida Mattman's textbook on Cell Wall Deficient Organisms and lost 45 years of academic 'knowledge'. The biggest problem for a musician is learning how to play improperly. When it becomes muscle memory you can't retrain youself to play the right way. I live in an academic shitzophrenia where everything I was taught was wrong, I taught myself all of the things that are right, but they constantly have headon collisions like the Keystone Cops and the two locomotives turning to scrap metal.
I can certainly tell anyone who asks "What is a woman?"... It is a human being with two "X" chromosomes... Period! And that is nothing more or less than elementary/middle-school biology.
"The Darkside of Academia: How truth is suppressed" by the Secret Professor, published 2021 is a book that looks at this issue.
An alternative for further study mentioned in the book is
https://www.truthuniversity.co.uk/
Thanks for sharing.
Yes!