The Crowhill Journal

Or at least one of them.

I haven’t followed her closely, but Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds like a bit of a loose canon. She reminds me of Sarah Palin — kinda mostly on the right side of things, but with a few screws that need tightening.

In a news conference where she is (correctly) calling attention to possible abuses by the Capitol Police, she made an amusing gaffe. See ‘Gazpacho Police’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Pelosi Spying on Congress in Scheme Involving Cold Spanish Soup.

Everybody who speaks in public says silly things from time to time, and it’s not right to distract from a legit political message by focusing on the gaffe. But this one was funny.

I liked this: Nature vs Nurture: How your genes shape who you are

As a general rule I believe the left tries to push the secularization angle a little harder than the constitition requires, but this is clearly over the line. (If the story is accurate.)

Christian Revival at School Prompts Student Walkout in W.Va.

A side note in the Spotify / Rogan story is the use of the word “unity,” which came up in a few of the twitter comments.

What does the woke left mean when they say “unity”?

I think it’s something like this: All Americans should be united behind fundamental principles of fairness and decency, and we should exert public pressure on people who don’t conform to those standards.

That sounds about right because it’s both a genuinely good sentiment and completely useless without more information.

Where is this list of fundamental principles? Shouldn’t we all know what those principles are? Who adjudicates it? How much pressure is appropriate when?

Is free speech a fundamental principle of fairness? Is allowing a speaker to speak without interruption part of fundamental fairness and/or decency? Is it fair or decent to try to get a person fired because you disagree with him about who should swim in the women’s swimming events?

To me, this illustrates one of the main weaknesses of wokeness. They take a grade-school level platitude, that everyone should agree with, but then they import a hundred other assumptions they won’t be honest about.

It’s like Twitter or Facebook with their “community guidelines.”

Tech: “You’ve violated our community guidelines.”

Innocent person: “Really? Which ones? How did we violate them?”

Tech: “We determine that, you peasant. Shut up.”

“Unity” is one of those values that only makes sense in a certain context, within prescribed limits. There’s a lot of unity under a tyrannical dictatorship, but we don’t want that kind of unity.

Wokeness requires a shallowness of thinking that’s unworthy of a sixth grader — which is why it’s catching on. Nobody’s learning how to think any more. Or if they are, they’re allowing undisciplined sentiment to have the upper hand.