There is an idea floating around right-wing circles, popularized by Rod Dreher in The Benedict Option, that normal families will need to strategically withdraw into intentional communities as mainstream culture continues its decline. I’ve been skeptical of this idea, having lived all my adult life in big cities, and have maintained a belief in engaging with the broader culture and fighting back where I can.
But after yet another massacre inflicted by a “person in a dress,” I am coming around to this idea of re-tribalization and expect elite society to increasingly revert into gated, high-trust enclaves. We are witnessing the very beginning of an epidemic of trans violence, which will accelerate this trend, because there’s little one can do to safeguard one’s children outside of a full retreat from mainstream society. I’m not thrilled about this, but your calculus changes when you have kids of your own. And the math is not looking good.
After Tumbler Ridge, Nashville, Minneapolis, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and others, so-called experts are still saying the uptick in trans violence is a myth. And although a relatively large portion of the mass shootings of the last few years have been perpetrated by trans-identifying people on a per capita basis, it’s overall still a small number. But I suspect this trend is going to get harder to dismiss over time.
The trans mass shooter is a confused, lonely loser who’s had his brain discombobulated on a cocktail of sissy hypno porn, digital grooming, and experimental pharmaceuticals with irreversible effects. Everyone in his world (doctors, teachers, parents) is telling him he’s normal because, throughout the West, it’s de facto prohibited or, in some places, even unlawful to say otherwise. Everyone has to affirm and support his decision to take powerful hormones and drugs to feel normal, but he can never seem to quite achieve that elusive state of normalcy, so anything that punctures the delusion is perceived as an existential threat. A genocide, even.
Many of the kids who start down this path are realizing too late that there are no takebacks, and a dozen or so have already followed it to the bloody conclusion that we’re seeing splashed across headlines.
If you don’t have kids, you may not yet realize how much worse it’s going to get. But unlike today’s extremely online shooters, the generation just now becoming teenagers came online, often without any adult supervision, before they knew how to walk or talk.
Hellbound and Down 