Well said! Disgust at cheating and racketeering has been completely uprooted in California. Unless it is restored, the whole state… not just the usual subject big cities… faces ruin.
Josh keep speaking out. Those that can’t accept reality have this need to pissed off. As a Disaffected supporter I’m hoping that your voice becomes heard much louder in 2025. You’re speaking the truth and the woke nut jobs hate it.
"Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential." ~ Willard Gaylin
Due to changed personal circumstances, I now commute on our city's light rail system two days a week. The pitiful state of my cobalt blue city is on full display like nowhere else (not that it isn't displayed prominently everywhere else - except for the rich neighborhoods, naturally). Drug addicts with the shakes ranting and raving, narcissists listening to music and videos with no headphones, fat, smelly slobs taking up two seats, people who couldn't manage to change out of stained pajamas before going out in public, dogs taking up seats in place of humans during rush hour. The list could go on. If your reaction to such a state is NOT disgust then there's something wrong with you and you are part of the problem.
Incidentally "Noticing" is the title of a recently released collection of essays by the writer Steve Sailer, which I highly recommend.
I only heard of him a few months ago (his name was name-dropped in a podcast) and now I'm a big fan. (Among other things, he was onto the feminist and trans lunacy a good decade ago.)
Reading Sailer's collection actually made me think that Josh's writing would make an amazing anthology 10 or 20 years from now.
Excellent point about the need to understand and respect, and not undermine, our natural 'disgust' reaction.
In her research on 'Child Torture' Dr. Barbara Knox discovered that in EVERY case they studied a female was involved. Not always as the primary torturer, but frequently. There were NO cases which involved only male perpetrators. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213424004824
Similarly, in Munchausen's by Proxy the perpetrators are overwhelmingly female.
What I haven't seen discussed or considered is just how large a role 'disgust' plays in all of the above 'syndromes' infliction on victims nor the degree of harm that results: in all of the above, the victims are made to feel degraded and subjugated and imbued with overwhelming self-disgust. Inescapable degradation: feces, urine, vomit, blood, infection, dirt, filth, putrefication, rot, decay, (and often cold) are frequently forced on the child to live with as a matter of routine. (The same with seniors and the disabled, and animals, btw).
Nor have I seen much discussion of this amongst 'trauma specialists', even though if you speak with trauma survivors the element of 'disgust' is MUCH more damaging than pretty much anything they go through - including pain and physical injury up to and including maiming. The feeling of pain eventually goes away with time; the feelings of self-disgust does not - at least not without compassionate help.
The worst male offenders (e.g. sex torturers) use disgust as a weapon, but female abusers use it routinely. I can't believe that the modern push in our 'cluster B world' to override our sense of disgust is an accident. Genuinely caring people help victims overcome their self-disgust by helping them clean themselves, their environments, and their relationships. Abusive people who want to perpetuate abuse teach people (victims, abusers and by-standers alike) to pretend that their sense of disgust isn't important and that living like that is a good thing (when abusers and sycophants know that isn't true). Victims also know, deep in their bones, that that isn't true but have no societal supports these days to help them admit the truth and thus escape it.
This was very well-thought out and well-written. This particular dimension of passive cruelty is incredibly hard to speak and write about but you did an excellent job. Thank you so much for this.
Amen, Brother. Once it becomes critical, they will bemoan the scarcity of the kind of masculine strength which is willing to repel the unlovely, shun the disgusting, and shame the contemptible. Although I fear that by that point it will either be too late, or come at an appalling price...
My bf and I were talking yesterday about how we think it is rude/weird for people to film in public (TikTok dances, etc.) and he said that younger people probably don't feel the same way as they grew up with it. I said I would hope that rude is rude and that anyone can recognize it.
I am going to say something controversial. Since finding you and thinking about my own childhood emotional abuse/damage and it's role in choosing honesexual behavior and my interaction with peers in childhood, I think that intuitively they could sense the damage and that I was different. That manifested in difficulty bonding with boys in the way boys bond because on one level it emotionally fekt to dangerous. That carries over to the way that straight men bond which also feels aggressive, hurtful and dangerous.
Where am I going with this. The reactions people have are not necessarily culture they happen in young children who don't know culture. It is an intuitive disgust or aversion to someone damaged, someone not like them. It can manifest in ostracization but also scapegoating and bullying.
They didn't do it because your gay, they didn't even understand gay or sexuality on a personal level. It's an innate response, something the gay community and civilized adults don't want to recognize or acknowledge.
Yes. This just captures the ugly dissonance and barbarism on various levels which is heralded as self-expression and individuality. Honest people can see that this is the truth. Noticing it doesn’t mean that you don’t want do something about it, or indeed, that you don’t want something better for people. However, a lot of other people in this mess will need to decide that they want something better for themselves…
I lived in liberal utopia cities for most of my life and it’s hard to find anything to disagree with in what you’ve written here and previously. This goblinopathy is rather everywhere, sadly.
Disgust and intolerance, applied rationally, are essential to healthy society. When a large segment of the population works to suppress them, we have chaos.
Not my area of expertise, but from what I’ve read this is likely glucose poisoning, and probably also fructose poisoning if the lungs are squashed up. See the book ‘The Rosedale Diet’. These are symptoms of following the old fad in which healthy fats were claimed to be harmful and energy intake from glucose was preferred. Faddists believed in the food pyramid and even believed that the only energy source used by the brain was glucose. Now a debunked fad, yet some dieticians still adhere.
IIRC, you don't really need to consume glucose, because the liver can manufacture glucose out of thin air as needed. Provided, of course, that the insulin signal isn't messed up.
Yes, gluconeogenesis from breakdown of proteins or by building from parts of triglycerides . And I believe the poisoned person is on a slippery sugar slope drawn down by the call of sugar-hungry gut bacteria, and by ever-reducing sensitivity to insulin.
Yep. The social engineers/perception managers have been hell bent for decades now working to shame the plebes for their normal reaction of disgust to all manner of perverse and purposefully, provocative deviancy. Degradation is the name of the game. Give up and submit is the hope.
Well said! Disgust at cheating and racketeering has been completely uprooted in California. Unless it is restored, the whole state… not just the usual subject big cities… faces ruin.
Josh keep speaking out. Those that can’t accept reality have this need to pissed off. As a Disaffected supporter I’m hoping that your voice becomes heard much louder in 2025. You’re speaking the truth and the woke nut jobs hate it.
It's not fear. It's disgust.
"Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential." ~ Willard Gaylin
You committed the unforgivable sin of noticing.
Due to changed personal circumstances, I now commute on our city's light rail system two days a week. The pitiful state of my cobalt blue city is on full display like nowhere else (not that it isn't displayed prominently everywhere else - except for the rich neighborhoods, naturally). Drug addicts with the shakes ranting and raving, narcissists listening to music and videos with no headphones, fat, smelly slobs taking up two seats, people who couldn't manage to change out of stained pajamas before going out in public, dogs taking up seats in place of humans during rush hour. The list could go on. If your reaction to such a state is NOT disgust then there's something wrong with you and you are part of the problem.
Keep it up, Josh.
Incidentally "Noticing" is the title of a recently released collection of essays by the writer Steve Sailer, which I highly recommend.
I only heard of him a few months ago (his name was name-dropped in a podcast) and now I'm a big fan. (Among other things, he was onto the feminist and trans lunacy a good decade ago.)
Reading Sailer's collection actually made me think that Josh's writing would make an amazing anthology 10 or 20 years from now.
There is a concept labelled "Wrongful noticing" that I learned of here:
https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk/p/updating-the-template
I'm pretty positive I've seen Josh's comments there so he is aware of that great source.
Excellent point about the need to understand and respect, and not undermine, our natural 'disgust' reaction.
In her research on 'Child Torture' Dr. Barbara Knox discovered that in EVERY case they studied a female was involved. Not always as the primary torturer, but frequently. There were NO cases which involved only male perpetrators. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213424004824
Similarly, in Munchausen's by Proxy the perpetrators are overwhelmingly female.
Then there is the whole hidden world of sexual abuse by females (sometimes but not necessarily involving proxy abuse by males), plus the whole feminist treatment of unwanted children as, basically, vermin (abortion, infanticide, organ harvesting). Also, for those in the know, many types of hoarding - both animal and 'objects' (meaning, including 'people'). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233641473_Normalizing_Passive_Cruelty_The_Excuses_and_Justifications_of_Animal_Hoarders
What I haven't seen discussed or considered is just how large a role 'disgust' plays in all of the above 'syndromes' infliction on victims nor the degree of harm that results: in all of the above, the victims are made to feel degraded and subjugated and imbued with overwhelming self-disgust. Inescapable degradation: feces, urine, vomit, blood, infection, dirt, filth, putrefication, rot, decay, (and often cold) are frequently forced on the child to live with as a matter of routine. (The same with seniors and the disabled, and animals, btw).
Nor have I seen much discussion of this amongst 'trauma specialists', even though if you speak with trauma survivors the element of 'disgust' is MUCH more damaging than pretty much anything they go through - including pain and physical injury up to and including maiming. The feeling of pain eventually goes away with time; the feelings of self-disgust does not - at least not without compassionate help.
The worst male offenders (e.g. sex torturers) use disgust as a weapon, but female abusers use it routinely. I can't believe that the modern push in our 'cluster B world' to override our sense of disgust is an accident. Genuinely caring people help victims overcome their self-disgust by helping them clean themselves, their environments, and their relationships. Abusive people who want to perpetuate abuse teach people (victims, abusers and by-standers alike) to pretend that their sense of disgust isn't important and that living like that is a good thing (when abusers and sycophants know that isn't true). Victims also know, deep in their bones, that that isn't true but have no societal supports these days to help them admit the truth and thus escape it.
This was very well-thought out and well-written. This particular dimension of passive cruelty is incredibly hard to speak and write about but you did an excellent job. Thank you so much for this.
thank you
I'm glad to see this follow-up essay. Thanks for always having integrity and speaking the truth.
Amen, Brother. Once it becomes critical, they will bemoan the scarcity of the kind of masculine strength which is willing to repel the unlovely, shun the disgusting, and shame the contemptible. Although I fear that by that point it will either be too late, or come at an appalling price...
My bf and I were talking yesterday about how we think it is rude/weird for people to film in public (TikTok dances, etc.) and he said that younger people probably don't feel the same way as they grew up with it. I said I would hope that rude is rude and that anyone can recognize it.
I am going to say something controversial. Since finding you and thinking about my own childhood emotional abuse/damage and it's role in choosing honesexual behavior and my interaction with peers in childhood, I think that intuitively they could sense the damage and that I was different. That manifested in difficulty bonding with boys in the way boys bond because on one level it emotionally fekt to dangerous. That carries over to the way that straight men bond which also feels aggressive, hurtful and dangerous.
Where am I going with this. The reactions people have are not necessarily culture they happen in young children who don't know culture. It is an intuitive disgust or aversion to someone damaged, someone not like them. It can manifest in ostracization but also scapegoating and bullying.
They didn't do it because your gay, they didn't even understand gay or sexuality on a personal level. It's an innate response, something the gay community and civilized adults don't want to recognize or acknowledge.
Yes. This just captures the ugly dissonance and barbarism on various levels which is heralded as self-expression and individuality. Honest people can see that this is the truth. Noticing it doesn’t mean that you don’t want do something about it, or indeed, that you don’t want something better for people. However, a lot of other people in this mess will need to decide that they want something better for themselves…
Here's a video (shamelessly, it's mine) on disgust. Perhaps people will find it useful.
https://www.zephyrwellness.org/emotional-functioning#disgust
I lived in liberal utopia cities for most of my life and it’s hard to find anything to disagree with in what you’ve written here and previously. This goblinopathy is rather everywhere, sadly.
"goblinopathy" ... love it!
Disgust and intolerance, applied rationally, are essential to healthy society. When a large segment of the population works to suppress them, we have chaos.
Not my area of expertise, but from what I’ve read this is likely glucose poisoning, and probably also fructose poisoning if the lungs are squashed up. See the book ‘The Rosedale Diet’. These are symptoms of following the old fad in which healthy fats were claimed to be harmful and energy intake from glucose was preferred. Faddists believed in the food pyramid and even believed that the only energy source used by the brain was glucose. Now a debunked fad, yet some dieticians still adhere.
IIRC, you don't really need to consume glucose, because the liver can manufacture glucose out of thin air as needed. Provided, of course, that the insulin signal isn't messed up.
Also, ketones.
Yes, gluconeogenesis from breakdown of proteins or by building from parts of triglycerides . And I believe the poisoned person is on a slippery sugar slope drawn down by the call of sugar-hungry gut bacteria, and by ever-reducing sensitivity to insulin.
Yep. The social engineers/perception managers have been hell bent for decades now working to shame the plebes for their normal reaction of disgust to all manner of perverse and purposefully, provocative deviancy. Degradation is the name of the game. Give up and submit is the hope.