If you are interested in how a mind virus can take over whole societies, the insanity of transgenderism is a perfect case study for understanding that.
I was incredibly honored to be included with two amazing thinkers in a series of interviews done by the great Brandon Showalter over at the Christian Post. Jennifer Bilek is a phenomenal investigative journalist who has followed the money of transgenderism, or what she more accurately terms “the synthetic sex industry.” Dr. Miriam Grossman is an eminent pediatric psychiatrist who saw the hand writing on the wall many years before Americans even heard the word “transgender.”
You can listen to Brandon’s streamlined 30-minute podcast here:
Meanwhile, yours truly is a former intelligence analyst with a focus on propaganda and censorship. I look at how social pressures breed social conformity and social contagions like the transgender craze. And just like Jennifer Bilek and Dr. Grossman, I have been following it for a very long time.
Identifying such trends early is really just a matter of training yourself to detect cues and patterns in changing social norms. We must all develop curiosity about such things. And understand that any dangerous ideas that might seem fringy today can become mainstream tomorrow if not kept in check.
If you listen to my segment on Brandon’s podcast, you’ll hear me talk about an incident at a Los Angeles party in the mid-1970s where I predicted that there would come a time when taxpayers should expect to pay for what we then called “sex-change operations.” Everyone laughed at me for stating something that seemed so absurd (yes, even in 1970’s L.A.!) But my point is that my focus on gender ideology –as well as other social contagions and the cult mindset--goes way back.
Brandon decided to interview the three of us because we were all tracking these trends when they seemed hidden to the public at large. But we all know that they didn’t just pop into the mainstream with the Vanity Fair story on Bruce Jenner back in 2015. The “trans-agenda” began infiltrating all our institutions decades ago. Dr. Grossman attests to the corruption of medicine and the war on children. Jennifer Bilek makes plain the industrialization and big money behind the movement.
And I zero in on the effects of what I call the weaponization of loneliness that causes people to go along with it out of fear of cancel culture. As people feared being rejected as "transphobes" by the media and other institutions, they self-censored and thereby allowed it to happen.
I hope you'll listen. Brandon did a fantastic job editing our interviews so that all of the main points are covered in that doable timeframe.
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