[FRIAM] Natures_Queer_Performativity_the_authori.pdf

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[sigh] Congratulations to Idaho for its regressive reaction to Wokeism: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/idaho-critical-race-theory If anyone's looking for a place to live that's insulated from liberal arts, Idaho may well be your ideal. "Come to Idaho, where men are men and women are ..." Whatever.

I don't know why I continue to give Rutt my ear time. As always, he has great guests, who he interrupts with bouts of nonsense. Then the guest has to recover the thread and force the conversation forward. E.g. from: https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/the-jim-rutt-show-transcripts/transcript-of-episode-123-jamie-wheal-on-recapturing-the-rapture/

"Jamie: And their women wanted those copper-bottom pots, because have you ever tried boiling stew in an animal skin with hot rocks? It’s a ball lake, and we want those bright and shiny things, and by the way, we’re going to take those guns, we’re going to kick the living shit out of the Hurons, our historic neighbors, and we’re going to shwhack every fucking beaver we can find to get more of them. That was agency. Those were choices, right? Now, the millennials, I think there’s been amnesia and voltage drop, right? Because the boomers, to articulate postmodern, critical race, and gender theory, as they did, they waded through Fuko [Foucault] and Derrida. They read Franz Fanon. It was real work.

Jim: Hardly any Boomers read that shit, right? I’m a classic mid-boomer, and I never heard any of that horseshit until the nineties. Long, long, long, long after my schooling was done at a fairly elite university. The professors read it, but normal people didn’t read that horseshit in those days.

Jamie: Yeah, but I mean, it was built from first principles. They had to put some back into it, and it was based on real world conditions. The ’68 revolutions, all the things, right? But millennials simply got the pablum, they got the de-tuned version of everyone can grow… The whole trophy generation and that, blah, blah, blah, and they got it in grade school, middle school, high school. They took it for granted, but they didn’t understand the mechanics. It was like a scientific graphing calculator, but never knowing how to do long division yourself."


What am I missing, here? Why do these guests give Rutt their time?  Then just a few minutes later:


"Jim: Well, the identity lens can be useful, right? Particularly looking at culture and how culture keys on identity, but realizing that’s plastic and can be easily, relatively easily changed and does change over time. Instead, retreating into making these identity categories very rigid and core to the definition of who a person is, strikes me as exactly ass fucking backward of what we should be doing to move forward to a society that works for everybody. I mean, it’s very, very, very disturbing actually, this new turn towards wokeism and reified identity, fuck those people. You mentioned they want to fight. I say, “Bring it on motherfucker.” I’m ready to fight those fuckers. I wouldn’t start it, but I fucking sure ass finish it.

Jamie: Well, there you go with your feisty Irishman, and I think it is important to kind of, to absolutely hear the signal in the noise. Right? If the signal in the noise is, hey, we bought into, if we were patiently, if we play by the rules and we waited our turn, that we would get ours eventually. For anybody that has found themselves on a, not an even field and constantly under the thumb of adversarial forces that are not part of the thing we all signed on to, I think there’s a critical need to be like, “You’re right, I get it.” There’s no question. There’s been asymmetrical distribution of resources, and it’s worked for us, right? Better than it’s worked for you, and just whatever that is. Right? An acknowledgement of that."


I mean, it's normal to hear the language Rutt's using in a pub *AFTER* everyone's had 3 pints and the rules are mostly gone. But to go off with that cowardly posturing "I'll sure ass finish it" when sober? ... in an interview with someone who's seriously trying to say something substantive? When some moron claims they'd "finish" a fight with someone else, I always have to wonder if that posturing ape has ever been in a real fight. Pfft. At least Rutt puts up the transcript so we can see how cartoonishly stupid he gets.



On 4/30/21 8:55 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Ha! Well, no worries. Not only are liberal arts unis dying rapidly, the entire university system is dying, which is why, as problematic as it is, https://www.mikeroweworks.org/ is a good thing in principle. The rationalists are like refined royals clutching their pearls in response to naughty words spoken by (postmodernist, gender studies) libertine "gentlemen". The villagers with pitch forks won't distinguish between Karen Barad and David Deutsch.
> 
> On 4/30/21 8:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Sheesh, Reed, Evergreen.  It's like freaking Ice-9.  :-) 
> 

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