The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Gender Nihilism and the Revolutionary Impulse Why the breakdown of meaning and an embodied identity fuels extremist violence. About the Author Brooke Laufer, Psy.D. is an independent scholar, writer, and clinician with a group practice in Evanston, Illinois. She works from a Jungian orientation and applies depth psychological perspectives to contemporary sociopolitical issues. The nature of political violence has changed. What once looked like moral struggle—however misguided—has increasingly given way to something more chaotic and disturbing. Among many young adults, a powerful “revolutionary impulse” has taken hold: not just the urge to protest, but the belief that one is personally called to carry out sweeping, often violent acts in the name of social change. In a growing number of cases, individuals drawn toward extremist violence also identify as transgender. This is a pattern that warrants careful examination rather than reflexive dismissal. To be clear, identifying as tran...

  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...