How to deal with judgement — for there is one thing our society preaches, and that is that we should not judge, in the most priggish manner. We don’t have a problem with malnutrition in our society, but obesity: we don’t have social controls, and we are getting less intelligent by the decade.

Thank God for our brother Mundabor, who is seeing what is happening.

But then you move to Continental Europe and start observing a new phenomenon: purple hair and tattoos in people of apparent age of 35 to 40. They weren’t there twenty years ago, but they are there now. The same phenomenon is here at work, but in this case the mass arrested development clearly started later. Morbid obesity is not there, but it’s clearly worse than in Italy, where the first signs of alarming overweight youth have appeared already. The tidal wave of stupidity marches on, north to south. In time, it will submerge everything.

My forecast: these people will not develop anymore. In twenty years’ time we will be confronted with 80 years old women – those who haven’t eaten themselves to death, of course – sporting purple hair and wearing yoga pants (yes, you can start vomiting now), and showing their Dalai-lama t-shirts with amply wrinkled tattoos on their arms as they roll along in those electric wheelchairs, by then a common feature of Western society. By that time, you will see people of the same type in Germany and Belgium, but probably of age sixty. Give it another ten or fifteen years and Italy or Portugal will follow. They will become dumber, fatter, more tattooed, and more electric-wheel chaired as time goes by.

Am I being “judgmental”? You bet I am!

I have, confronted with these people, the same attitude and the same judgment our much wiser forefathers had in past times; in times, that is, when people not only recognized the idiot, but said so very clearly. Oh, blessed times of “judgmental” reasoning, and social control through elementary common sense!

We have forgotten the sense of sin, and have made excuses for gluttony. We have forgotten the sense of decency, and have made excuses for purple hair. We have forgotten the sacredness of our God-given body, and have made excuses for tattoos. We have forgotten the importance of social control, and do not shame anyone anymore.

It is not that I don’t struggle with this. My hair is not purple: it is covered because it is think and I don’t like a sunburnt or cold scalp. I don’t have tattoos: they are rare in my generation, but my nieces fiancée has multiple ones.

But I live in the South, and hang around people who do crossfit. We are having to teach our children to be fit as we rediscover what was common sense when I was a kid, and has been lost in our fears and regulations and propaganda. Besides, the scales tell me I have a long way to go.

For this tolerance is hateful. We love the approval of others too much: we will not tell or teach outside our family because saying you will change hurts feelings. Even when the corrective word is needed. It is not merely hunger that people need, but fellowship, and to be taught how to live. And for that we will give account.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

(Matthew 25:31-46 ESV)

The first thing we can do to avoid the goats is tell the truth. We have the ability, still, do good tests and good science. But this has been allowed to converge: the meetings where senior males signal their virtue to young (and often tattooed, with purple hair) academics so that they are inclusive are commonplace. The codes of conduct are everywhere. On most issues we work by consensus, and that can be hacked.

The best example I can give of how corrupt and politicized peer-reviewed journals have become isn’t even climatology, it is the field of nutrition. For almost twenty years it was fairly well established that consumption of food cholesterol could not raise blood cholesterol levels. Environmentalists, animal rights activists and SJW’s fought those studies and they were suppressed. The obesity epidemic in part is due to the changes in diet that occurred because of the false assumptions about diet. After a point, the weight of evidence became too heavy and JAMA relented. The federal government, more or less under the radar, finally concurred but issued a totally unsubstantiated caveat that it was wise to avoid cholesterol-rich foods. As recently as this week I heard it suggested certain oils should not be in the diet because they might raise cholesterol levels. It is likely this myth will last generations

It is not merely these things: the pro photographer is part of a network of women (we both hang around the crossfit bunch) that are changing their diet and the result is that the women in the gym have lost weight. Large amounts. The guys less so: they gain muscle which subverts this.

It affects people. They find themselves making choices based on ideology and hatred, and then crippling their lives.

What is sad about such women is how their anti-male beliefs function as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because feminists like Alanna Bennett are so profoundly prejudiced against men, smart men avoid them. There are 3.5 billion women on this planet, and most women actually like men. Therefore, no intelligent guy with any sense of self-respect would waste his time hanging around an ax-grinding man-hater like Alanna Bennett. Because the only men who ever hang around feminists are stupid (or perhaps, desperate), it is easy for women like Alanna Bennett to believe there are no intelligent or virtuous men in the world. Feminism acts as a sort of force-field of hatred that drives good men away.

Young men are not more evil than young women. We are all fallen: we all are accountable. But to not provide correction, to not teach, to not raise… leaves people crippled, We do enough damage already. Let us do less.

So that we will be seen as sheep, and so it will be well for us.