#society
Gender identity: the latest social contagion
I have since learned that social contagions are especially common among teenage girls, and that there are numerous historical precedents for this. I have written elsewhere about the Salem witch trials of 1692-93, in which a group of girls began seeing demons in the shadows and accusing members of their own community of being in league with the Devil. Then there were the various “dancing plagues” of the middle ages which seemed to impact young women in particular. In 1892, girls at a school in Germany began to involuntarily shake their hands whenever they performed writing exercises. And when I visited Sweden last year, I was told about a local village where, during the medieval period, the girls all inexplicably began to limp.
https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/gender-identity-the-latest-social
Kindness does not require great skill, just humility.
#kindness #inclusion #OpenYourHeart #love #society #community
https://youtube.com/watch?v=icnMvYK1i_E
#WORLD #CRITICAL - RISK OF UNSTOPPABLE GOVERNMENT #FRAUD / CHILD TRAFFICKING
There are mounting concerns regarding this decades long International Government fraud and its very close links to a huge child trafficking network and our Politicians.
You will see from this video that the #SWIFT #financial #system is now expediting a migration to #digital #currency, moving us closer to a #cashless #Society.
This cannot happen and now imminently risks enslaving the public into a criminal network heavily linked to child trafficking.
Despite being a former Police Officer and contacting numerous organisations and almost 650 Members of Parliament, none are responding as they should, if at all. This is only highlighting the concerns even further.
I urge you to increase the pressure on your local councils and our national Government to address this as a matter of urgency. It really is the cause of most of the problems on the planet.
These people are appearing to be an increasingly imminent and serious risk to us all, particularly if cash is removed from society as appears to be their intention. This may mean we cannot withhold tax as a peaceful form of protest to any criminality they are involved in.
We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
https://theconversation.com/weve-been-here-before-ai-promised-humanlike-machines-in-1958-222700
End the Phone-Based #Childhood Now
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger #children, too, as they began to get access to their #parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary #school.
#technology #news #change #humanity #future #society #smartphone #problem
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Equal Rites (1987)
#quote #quotes #quotation #boldness #conformity #disobedience #exception #nonconformity #rules #society #shamelessness #brazenness
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/29157/
#Interview: Why #global support for #climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’
They contribute more to the public good if they believe that others contribute as well. For this reason, #pessimism about others’ contributions is harmful. It can constitute a critical obstacle for climate action.
#future #society #politics #earth #environment #finance #news #activism #emissions #costs #change
Is the #Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
The Washington Post’s new #publisher and C.E.O., Will Lewis, was more clearly bearish on subscriptions. “That subscription-based model is now #waning and then will enter a more significant period of decline,” he said. “There’s very positive evidence of how news can be accessed and paid for in more innovative ways. There are day passes that are successful, there’s week passes, there are models like the #Guardian where you can make #donations. So there’s a whole new generation of paying user concepts. I’m pretty excited about it. I think it’s #newsroom 3.0.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event
#news #newspaper #press #journalism #future #finance #economy #capitalism #society #problem
Can Shakespeare survive the new puritans?
#society #art #theatre #culture #feminism #wokistan
And in 2022, the Globe staged a new play called I, Joan, which presented Joan of Arc as “non-binary” on the basis that she was powerful, independent and wore armour. Presumably a female Joan of Arc would have been too busy knitting, gossiping and shopping for shoes to fight the English.
To accompany the production, an activist academic called Kit Heyam was invited to write an essay in which it was claimed that Queen Elizabeth I could have been “non-binary” for similar reasons.
This is the epitome of anti-feminism.
https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/will-shakespeare-survive-the-new
Every time someone says “Please think of the children”, fertility sinks by a millimeter
For a while, it looked like generous parental leave and subsidized daycare would convince people to have more children. I suspect that the causality in reality was much the other way around: Societies that didn't consider children extremely vulnerable built an infrastructure of parental leave and daycare. Societies that considered children very vulnerable didn't. People had fewer children in the latter kind of society because they were afraid to be unable to raise a child properly.
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/every-time-someone-says-please-think
