Is the Pandemic of Mass Shootings a Reaction Against Feminism and Multiculturalism?

Applying the insights of Jordan Petersen to Modern American Pathos

By

David Gottfried

“Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?”

Sarah Jeong, appointed to the editorial board of the New York Times in 2018

(See Footnote 1 for the source of this quote)

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As I write this, America is being showered with news reports about a mass shooting, at a Fourth of July parade, in a suburb of Chicago, and a few comments are in order.

MSNBC and CNN have been talking about the shooting non stop and most of what they are saying is of no value because most of the particulars of the shooting have yet to be discovered (they do not even know how many people were killed yet) but the media loves emotional agony as tears are always worth a treasure trove of bucks and so mindless narrators, oozing bogus and fabricated sympathy, are busy saying the same damn obvious things:  Isn’t this a tragedy (Actually, if they knew anything about Greek tragedy, they would realize that this very terrible occurrence doesn’t fit the precise definition of tragedy), we must find the shooter, and in the meantime, isn’t it fun to have a nice, expressive, and wholly impotent, crying fest.

In less than 24 hours, commentators and experts, dripping with pompousness and preening with their degrees, will try to tell us why America is besieged with violence. Professional liberals will tell us we need more gun control [And they are correct), but, being acquiescent, spayed and neutered weaklings they will, at best, enact the most tepid and half-hearted proposals (they will recommend one must be 21, and not 18, to buy an assault rifle) and most of the reactionary Senate, led by right wing phony Democrats such as Joe Manchin, will be aghast at what they will characterize as socialistic and tyrannical legislation.]

Professionals from the field of mental unhealth will be more boring than elevator music.   A few decades ago, psychiatry was, for the most part, under the thumb of a macho ideology which held that women should wear taffeta dresses and bake cookies and men must drink beer and play with guns.   However, psychiatrists and psychologists and social workers have made a violent 180 with the past, and now they want boys to dance ballet and munch on cucumber sandwiches.   (When I was young, I went to shrinks who considered gayness mortal sin.   Now, I see shrinks who have suggested that I go in drag to spice up our sessions.   Shrinks are a species of very crazy people who have the unmitigated gall to tell you that they can cure your craziness.)

Most professionals are captives of the reigning dogmas of their professions.  Since mental health has been colonized by dour feminists who ardently believe that all psychosexual differences must be eradicated, and since that belief has insinuated itself into all aspects of medical  care, they have been saying the same thing, ad nauseum, for decades.

Nowadays, more people than ever before are seeing shrinks, are taking prescription meds for their mental aberrations and what has this wrought:  The suicide rate is rising,  airline passengers punch stewards when they are asked to wear a mask, thugs invade the Capitol, gun violence spreads like chicken pox, and most colleges are becoming predominantly female because emotional illness is skyrocketing among young men.

What is the essence of disturbed behavior:   Using the same formulas to remedy problems that have consistently failed in the past.  I submit to you:   It is time to have the guts and the intelligence to analyze our problems afresh, without ideological blinders imposed to eliminate politically inconvenient thoughts.

I suggest that the ideas of Jordan Petersen might be instructive:

Petersen is a psychologist and social critic who has proved very appealing to young men.   He has said that the more political and psychological elites have tried to instill feminism and indoctrinate young people with the tenets of feminism, the more young people, and especially young men, have gravitated toward visions and dreams of fierce, violent unreconstructed macho. 

Peterson claims that he formed this idea on the basis of what he has seen in Scandinavia.   According, to Peterson, Scandinavia made a concerted effort to counter sex-role polarization, to encourage young men to adopt stereotypically female behaviors, and to inculcate butch behaviors among young women.  Peterson says that Scandinavian children rebelled against this and that young Scandinavian men have become more like the “blonde beasts” of Karl Jung. 

I have always been on the left, but sometimes the feminist gospel gives me nausea.

If America had been a politically correct, genteel nation of eunuchoidal, neutered non-entities, would it have ever had the gumption to defeat Adolf Hitler.  

I think young men are finding glory in violence because they don't want to be trained to be matronly grandmas along the lines of Nancy Pelosi.   

Every thesis generates its antithesis (Hegel).   The feminist point of view has stood at the helm of power in academia for decades.  In Eastern citadels of "scholarship," feminism rules with all the preening arrogance of a Joseph Stalin decked out in a dowager's pearls.   In some schools, the  student body is 60 percent female.  The young men are going nowhere.   And do the academics care about the problems of young men.  Of course not.  Young men are deemed "privileged" and so Academics apparently deign to see young men suffer.  If that remark seems hyperbolic, consider the epigraph at the commencement of this essay.  (The woman who uttered those quoted words also has some infamous put-downs directed at men)     

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Footnote 1:  The source of this quote:  

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/white-privilege-debate-elizabeth-warren/