“Gabor Maté For mainstreaming the notion that there’s no such thing as normal”
#2 on Maclean’s “The Power List: 2023” in the health care category, in Maclean’s March 16, 2023 [totally, and predictably, missing the paradox that he made it normal to think there’s no normal... plus how could you treat a condition if you didn’t know how it normally worked and to what it normally responded?].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we need to face the fact, and the implications, of large-scale pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and other Western nations by recent immigrants from places where horrific anti-Semitism is routine.
“Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
Elon Musk, widely quoted, not always verbatim, but Snopes has the relevant clip at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-wokeness/
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Crack-Up [according to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/64918-the-test-of-a-first-rate-intelligence-is-the-ability-to] [and one of those I don’t agree with, but widespread elite conviction that it is true helps explain the mess we’re in today]
In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.
In 1922 Chesterton in London “gave another talk on Socialism where he said his primary objection to socialism was that ‘it would be a dictatorship, with a tyranny of officials in every department of life.’”
“100 Years Ago” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021) [and if Chesterton, a Christian apologist and fiction writer, could see it so clearly, why couldn’t politicians, pundits and professors?]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say much of the left was caught offside on Hamas because ideas have consequences and they have embraced ones that lead to terrible places.
“There are indeed a large number of young people who sincerely think that their spirit will be the spirit of the future. That is why they are all so depressed.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly July 21, 1928 quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)