It’s not often nowadays that I read something which makes my old rebellious heart beat a little more strongly, but this is one of those things:
The Great Un-Karening has begun, and decades of cultural engineering have finally run into something their architects cannot fucking control: human nature.
For years, the helicopter-parenting crowd, DEI bureaucrats, ideological school administrators, and professional grievance merchants have worked to remake childhood in their own miserable image. Courage became recklessness. Masculinity became toxic. Independence became neglect. Every hurt feeling became an emergency, and every whining control freak acquired a fresh excuse to interfere. They built entire systems around rewarding fragility, policing behavior, and teaching children to view the world through the narrow lens of identity, victimhood, and institutional permission.
Yeah, I know. I think someone wrote something on a similar topic a while back, even using a Bad Trigger Word in the title. However:
And now the machinery is encountering resistance. Kids are reportedly refusing school Pride Day activities. Parents are defending their children’s right to adventure. Twenty to forty neighborhood kids organized their own nighttime pursuit game, complete with strategies, head starts, and a mile-long course. Some neighborhood hall monitor called security. The kids kept playing.
Fucking beautiful.
You can say that again. I want to see a whole lot more of this, at every level and in every organization of our American society.
Because it’s not gonna work anywhere else — Over There, you can get arrested for posting something “hurtful” online (to give but one example).
Nope; this rebellion has to grow, and nowhere better than in a nation whose very foundation was based on telling the controlling powers that be just to fuck off. Yeah, they did it in polite terms (until the bullets started flying, of course); but in today’s world, the powers that be — especially the non-elected, self-appointed sort — had better get used to it.