The Post-Partisan Emporium

  From Bestiality to Beatification: How Depravity Is Sanitised Virtue-Signalling the Vile Thoughts from the Shire One of my first ever Substack articles was titled  Kink covereth a multitude of sin,  it was three years ago, and had four recipients. It was written in response to a moment of televised absurdity, when a man stripped naked on prime-time television and played the piano with his genitals, only to be lauded as “stunning and brave” rather than treated as any other man exposing himself in public would be. Kink Covereth a multitude of sins Thoughts from the Shire · December 1, 2022 Read full story The point then was simple: what would be unacceptable, indecent, and arrestable for an ordinary (non queer/kink) bloke suddenly became art, once it was wrapped in the language of kink and transsexual identity. That was 3 years ago, however this week I saw another story, even more depraved and disturbing. In January 2023, a well-known drag queen in Cardiff was found dead i...

  Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I put up on the final Wednesday. Sometimes most of my readers vote for a single theme, sometimes there’s a quiet little contest among an assortment of themes. Then there was this month, where three topics broke from the pack early on, a lot of people who rarely or never vote in these contests flung themselves into the fray, and all three of the leading topics got more votes than most winning topics do. Since I have the best as well as the most eccentric commentariat on the internet, I decided promptly enough that the only sensible thing to do was to do posts on all three. This week’s post, accordingly, is on the topic that nosed ahead in the final days of the contest and won the contest. Some weeks ago, in the course of the ongoing discussion of Situationism on this blog, I noted that the...