Turning over rocks
From tragedy to... the seeds of more.
Hello, everyone. I miss you! I can't come back and join the fray until I'm done building something, but I'm still consuming a ton of material. I was scrolling through CNN just now catching up on the world after a busy day when I happened to click on the below. As always, one thing led to another and eventually I landed right where we always do. But the way this one stitched there is deeply troubling. I figured I'd come share.
The article itself is about Martin Short losing his adult daughter to suicide. He made some statements for the first time.
I knew she ended her own life but don't know anything else about her or the situation. The phrasing around this part here damn near floored me though…
Wait, what?
“not hiding from the word suicide, but accepting that this can be the last stage of an illness.”
Holy smokes! I hope that hits everyone as hard as it did me. It's a complete stripping away of responsibility and agency. Of every background factor that leads an unbelievably privileged person to kill themselves. It's a story we see repeat over and over in the vacant ivory palaces of Hollywood and entertainment and almost all concentrations of uber wealth. But once we render it into a condition that falls upon those poor souls, then we don't hold any blame at all. It just happened to them; it's just a mental-health condition; the final stage; nothing we could have done about it; we need to embrace it.
Man, is that unnerving. Imagine what could hide inside such an intellectual trap. You could blur away anything; anything inconvenient at all. And so I was curious what he has now poured his energy into. His own words (for the first time since her death) say how passionately he is now into this organization created by Glenn Close. Ok, first rock…
I notice the aesthetic is exactly what I'd expect. No masculinity found in the design at all. But don't let my own lens bias. Next rock…
Now, focus on what you're seeing here. What is the composite, the motif? What is the engine and landing place?



Be An Ally! Support Science! Lol oh, boy.
All feminist, even the men… check. ✅️
You'll note they never show the high-school QB needing these ‘services’ - needing to be an “ally”. Because he doesn't need that. This is the radicalization of fringe sets for political power. Queer as Political. I'm bouncing all around this in my mind now. I'm working on a piece called “Resist”.
clicks
Is this about healing or something else? Think about the function of all the encouragement and enticing.
Ok, let's choose one…
You ready for this? It just walks them right down.
And then the last two? You can feel it before we even arrive…
So BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ is how we're going to help kids with “mental-health”, huh? By injecting ideological poison in their minds? Vapid neauveau gospel cooked-up by fringe-type weirdos in academia and legitimate sociopaths drunk on Marxism? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense… to absolutely fucking no one.
And yet, look how hard this is getting pressed on our kids.
By who? These self-righteous siloed useless idiots. Few of whom even have children. The majority of which are in human tatters. But they all look good for their cameras and poses after their Liberal donations, don't they?
I can promise you this isn’t “helping” anybody. Unless you're benefiting from it in power, cash, or prestige. Or you just happen to be deeply grabbed by this cult shit because you were stripped away from our traditional moorings or never had them in the first place.
Wow, another heavily funded group that sprung out of the pandemic and is all about battling mysogynoir for capital-B Black chicks. What are the odds!
The Holding Space Foundation was established in 2021 by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, founder of Therapy for Black Girls, as a response to the growing need for mental health services for Black women and girls as a response to the pandemic and continued instances of race-based violence, sexism, and misogynoir. Seeing the need for more comprehensive and culturally-responsive services, the Holding Space Foundation was developed to provide group healing spaces for Black women and girls, training for mental health professionals, and community education with a focus on prevention. Our hope is that through these initiatives, Black women and girls have the space, knowledge, and resources to tend to their mental health.
You can click on any link throughout that web and you will find absolute madness. The Same madness.
And this systematic insanity is so systemwide because it is mainstream Liberal. There would be no Democratic Party right now without NGOs like the Human Rights Campaign and that stupid one with the yellow equals sign that pays the Bidens millions.
Anyways, there is no real point to this. Well, there are huge points to be made here but I want to make them elsewhere. The immediate is how easily you can turn over rocks across our mainstream information complex and land at the same square every single time. And that square quite often now presents as human destruction. The idea that we would begin describing mental wasteland like unavoidable weather blowing in is deeply disturbing. It gives an out to a lot of deeply disturbed people and turns a perverse world of disruption into something we're all told to admire.
We have big storms ahead. Big problems. I can't believe what I'm watching brewing. It's still being driven top-down. Everywhere! I took this picture today coming out of court…
Who are they “resisting”, exactly? It's a scary thought when you give it the attention it deserves. Stay tuned…



























Great piece, Theo! The Mental Health Industrial Complex & its malignant consequences is a subject almost too big for words. Few have the skill sets & passion to tackle it. You have both along w/a deep-seated belief in the sanctity of life
My 15 minutes worth of notes:
Society has turned mental illness into a badge of honor for those who embrace victimhood & the attendant benefits:
-bestows unearned specialness & removes the assumed stigma of being ordinary
-explains away mediocrity
-helps assuage white guilt by bestowing victimhood
-explains away the anxiety that is a consequence of bad choices
-removes the responsibility for making hard changes
-removes the guilt of negative, even atrocious, behavior
-provides an enveloping community/tribe to those who feel the lack of it
-explains away bad parenting
-HIGHLY remunerative for schools
-a veritable font of of political cache, NGO$$$, jobs & the meaning/nobility that comes w/fighting on its behalf
-hard to measure effectiveness of dollars spent esp. when bad outcomes can so easily be blamed on racism, white supremacy, misogyny, disparities of all sorts, poverty & a host of others
-promotes a feminized culture
Alas, the victim path only reaps fetid fruits:
infantilization
lack of agency/resilience/gratitude
sociopathic behaviors
deceit/rage
blaming others for failures
a state of incurvatus in se
Bishop Barron wrote
"Lewis is illustrating here the Augustinian principle that sin is the state of being incurvatus in se (curved in around oneself). It is the reduction of reality to the infinitely small space of the ego’s concerns and preoccupations. Love, on the contrary, which is the very life of Heaven, is the opening to reality in its fullness; it amounts to a breaking through of the buffered and claustrophobic self; it is the activity of the magna anima (the great soul). We think our own little ego-centric worlds are so impressive, but to those who are truly open to reality, they are less than nothing." -- Bishop Barron
https://www.churchpop.com/a-bishop-explains-why-you-should-read-c-s-lewis-masterpiece-the-great-divorce/