[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
The more our understanding of genetics advances, the stiffer becomes the resistance in the public sphere to any suggestion that the adult human being is created mainly by nature, and only secondarily by nurture.
As an example of the stiffening of that resistance, check out this report at the New York Times: Not Your Daddy’s Freud [by Joseph Bernstein, March 22, 2023]. It’s about psychoanalysis making a comeback.
I wrote about the resurgence of traditional Freudian analysis — both as a contested cultural symbol, and as rediscovered form of therapy. Enjoy! https://t.co/CBNJkWCq8j
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) March 22, 2023
If you haven’t kept up, Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who, in the years around 1900, developed a system of talk therapy for mental disturbances and built an elaborate metaphysical theory in its support.
A lot of Freud’s ideas and the words he used to describe them entered common usage in the middle decades of the last century: ”complexes” of various kinds (Oedipus, inferiority, castration), ”denial,” the ”id,” ”projection,” ”repression,” ”super-ego,” ”transference,” and others.
You still sometimes hear these words and phrases, but nothing like as much as we did fifty or sixty years ago. Back then great numbers of people in the Western world, and probably a few outside it, believed that Freud had accomplished a scientific breakthrough. He had, they believed, figured out how the adult human personality is formed.
The biggest factor in its formation, he taught, was the influence of other human beings, especially in the family during childhood. Biology hardly entered into it; genetics was barely even a science when Freud was writing. On the nature-nurture spectrum, Freud was way over on the nurture side.
Not everyone was impressed. In 1967, when public acceptance of Freud’s theories was at its height, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov told an interviewer that
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. I really do not care.
[Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, Spring 1967]
Science popularizer Martin Gardner, writing in the year 2000,
This is yet another tale about the left’s erasure of American history, akin to changing the name of Fort Bragg, or taking down statues of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
Once upon a time I dropped out of a law school in California (because I didn’t like it). But I decided to stay in the state for a year or two longer, get California residency, and then apply to one of a couple of University of California law schools where I believed I had special connections. One was Boalt Hall, the law school at Cal Berkeley. The other, across the Bay in San Francisco, was a smaller, older school called Hastings School of Law. An old friend of mine had just become director of admissions at one of these places, while the father of another friend was dean of the other school.
In the event, I never bothered to apply to either. Because I thought I’d make a lousy lawyer. But every once in a long while I’d check up on Boalt or Hastings—just to see how they were ranking, you know. And now I’ve discovered that Boalt Hall is no more! They pulled the signage off the school three years ago, and now the school goes by the nondescript moniker of ”UC Berkeley School of Law,” or some variant thereof.
The reason for the name change is that the school now has a lot of ”Asian” students, and old Mr. John Henry Boalt is partly blamed for the anti-Chinese immigration campaign back in the 1870s. Boalt once had the audacity to deliver a speech called ”The Chinese Question” [PDF], a long-forgotten essay that he read out before the Berkeley Club in 1877. It was later read on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and is said to have contributed to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act a few years later (1882).
Leader of the anti-Boalt charge was one Charles Reichmann [Email him] [Anti-Chinese Racism at Berkeley: The Case for Renaming Boalt Hall, by Charles Reichmann, 25 Asian Am. L. J. 5 (2018)], a lecturer who claims
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
The more our understanding of genetics advances, the stiffer becomes the resistance in the public sphere to any suggestion that the adult human being is created mainly by nature, and only secondarily by nurture.
As an example of the stiffening of that resistance, check out this report at the New York Times: Not Your Daddy’s Freud [by Joseph Bernstein, March 22, 2023]. It’s about psychoanalysis making a comeback.
I wrote about the resurgence of traditional Freudian analysis — both as a contested cultural symbol, and as rediscovered form of therapy. Enjoy! https://t.co/CBNJkWCq8j
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) March 22, 2023
If you haven’t kept up, Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who, in the years around 1900, developed a system of talk therapy for mental disturbances and built an elaborate metaphysical theory in its support.
A lot of Freud’s ideas and the words he used to describe them entered common usage in the middle decades of the last century: ”complexes” of various kinds (Oedipus, inferiority, castration), ”denial,” the ”id,” ”projection,” ”repression,” ”super-ego,” ”transference,” and others.
You still sometimes hear these words and phrases, but nothing like as much as we did fifty or sixty years ago. Back then great numbers of people in the Western world, and probably a few outside it, believed that Freud had accomplished a scientific breakthrough. He had, they believed, figured out how the adult human personality is formed.
The biggest factor in its formation, he taught, was the influence of other human beings, especially in the family during childhood. Biology hardly entered into it; genetics was barely even a science when Freud was writing. On the nature-nurture spectrum, Freud was way over on the nurture side.
Not everyone was impressed. In 1967, when public acceptance of Freud’s theories was at its height, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov told an interviewer that
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. I really do not care.
[Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, Spring 1967]
Science popularizer Martin Gardner, writing in the year 2000,
This is yet another tale about the left’s erasure of American history, akin to changing the name of Fort Bragg, or taking down statues of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
Once upon a time I dropped out of a law school in California (because I didn’t like it). But I decided to stay in the state for a year or two longer, get California residency, and then apply to one of a couple of University of California law schools where I believed I had special connections. One was Boalt Hall, the law school at Cal Berkeley. The other, across the Bay in San Francisco, was a smaller, older school called Hastings School of Law. An old friend of mine had just become director of admissions at one of these places, while the father of another friend was dean of the other school.
In the event, I never bothered to apply to either. Because I thought I’d make a lousy lawyer. But every once in a long while I’d check up on Boalt or Hastings—just to see how they were ranking, you know. And now I’ve discovered that Boalt Hall is no more! They pulled the signage off the school three years ago, and now the school goes by the nondescript moniker of ”UC Berkeley School of Law,” or some variant thereof.
The reason for the name change is that the school now has a lot of ”Asian” students, and old Mr. John Henry Boalt is partly blamed for the anti-Chinese immigration campaign back in the 1870s. Boalt once had the audacity to deliver a speech called ”The Chinese Question” [PDF], a long-forgotten essay that he read out before the Berkeley Club in 1877. It was later read on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and is said to have contributed to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act a few years later (1882).
Leader of the anti-Boalt charge was one Charles Reichmann [Email him] [Anti-Chinese Racism at Berkeley: The Case for Renaming Boalt Hall, by Charles Reichmann, 25 Asian Am. L. J. 5 (2018)], a lecturer who claims
Earlier: The Murder Of Mollie Tibbetts: A Perfect Storm
Forgiving murderers has become a public spectacle these days. But a peculiar dynamic is at play when the families of white victims swiftly or unconditionally forgive non-white murderers or other attackers. Indeed, Western whites now accept levels of criminality no other well-established people in the world would tolerate and would have been unthinkable in the U.S., for instance, just a half century ago. And Christian moral teaching aren’t the reasons. Rather, a kind of mind virus has infected brainwashed whites desperate to avoid placing blame where it belongs. The consequences are self-destructive and anarchic.
Consider the following cases:
DeWitt’s father, as well as [girlfriend Bailey] Reidling, have expressed their desire to forgive the suspects.
“Just like his dad said, you don’t really know. You don’t know how those kids were raised — you know, what they were going through,” Reidling told Fox News Digital. “It’s not right. It never will be right. But you know…this is not the only crime, this is everywhere. And it’s horrible.”
[Georgia high-school football star Elijah DeWitt's murder suspects to appear in court for preliminary hearing, by Danielle Wallace, Fox5 Atlanta, November 18, 2022]
But Hoffman forgave Aranda because “it’s a decision that you have to make so that God can do what he needs to do in your life … and that was to save Landon” [‘Angels caught him’: Mom recalls moment son was thrown off Mall of America balcony, by Isabel Keane, New York Post, December 14, 2022].
“At the outset, politicians and pundits used Mollie’s death to promote various political agendas, he wrote. “We appealed to them and they graciously stopped. For that, we are grateful.”
But “others have ignored our
This is why DeSantis Scares Them.
Subscribe to Ann Coulter‘s Substack UNSAFE.
Isn’t it great to have the media complaining about what a Republican is doing, instead of what he’s tweeting?
The New York Times recently did a major investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension last August of a Florida prosecutor for the flimsy reason that he’d publicly announced that he would not enforce state law on abortion.
The Florida legislature had just spent nearly two months banging out a compromise bill that allowed abortions up to 15 weeks—more liberal than most European countries—and included an exception for life of the mother. An abortionist would literally have to turn himself in to get prosecuted under this law.
What kind of showboating clown would sign a public “pledge” not to prosecute a case that had about a 1 in 10 billion chance of ever landing in his office?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Florida state attorney Andrew H. Warren.
This wasn’t Warren’s first publicity stunt. Even a fawning profile on Warren in the Tampa Bay Times noted his penchant for going “out of his way to draw attention to himself,” setting him “apart from other elected prosecutors.”
During the pandemic, Warren held a press conference to announce that he was prosecuting a church pastor for violating the county’s stay-at-home order by holding services—a misdemeanor offense.
Days later, Gov. DeSantis issued an order expressly overriding the county’s shutdown rules—and Warren held a press conference to denounce the governor’s order. People will DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
He held a press conference a few months later,
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum is not actually a Museum yet. Set up by Congress in 2020, it is according to its website “at least 10 years” from having a building. In Who Will Win In A Museum Fight: Women Or Latinxes? last year, Steve Sailer noted that a fight is going on about if the available prime location will instead go to the new National Museum of the American Latino.
However, the money is rolling in—$55 million so far from the usual type of donors. And last Monday March 13th we learned Nancy Yao Named First Director of the New Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
First Generation American (possibly immigrant - mother took English lessons). Last 8 years running ethnocentric Chinese in America Museum.
— Patrick Cleburne (@PCleburneVdare) March 13, 2023
Moral: No Historic American Nation members need apply. https://t.co/8xE4LORzEv
This appointment of course is a vicious insult to the probably thousands of better qualified white women, particularly of Founding Stock origin, who might reasonably expect to head this major institution which if it has any integrity at all, has to be primarily about the activities of their ancestors. Indeed, it raises serious doubts about what is intended.
In her thanks quoted in the announcement above, Nancy Yao said she was
Indebted to Lonnie Bunch, Kevin Gover …and interim director Lisa Sasaki
Lonnie Bruce, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is black.
Kevin Gover, Under Secretary for Museums and Culture is “a citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma”.
Lisa Sasaki, director of the Smithsonian
Earlier: Denmark Produces Immigration Patriot Leftist (!) Female (!!) Prime Minister. What Can U.S. Learn?
Being mugged in broad daylight is something you must worry about in “diverse” areas of U.S. cities, “diverse” being Leftist code for massively non-white. In December last year, a gun-wielding young black man mugged and robbed an elderly white woman at 11.20 a.m. “in one of the city’s most upscale neighborhoods,” as a Fox News anchor called Chicago’s Lakeview. He snatched her purse before driving off [Brazen daylight robbery of elderly Chicago woman at gunpoint caught on camera, by Pilar Arias, December 15, 2022]. However, being robbed in the middle of the day is not something you expect to worry about in Northern Finland. Or at least it wasn’t until the Ruling Class began importing “refugees” from Africa and the Middle East.
Oulu, population 200,000 and the largest city in northern Finland, has undergone quite a process of enrichment over the last 20 years.
As I’ve reported before, in 2005—shortly after the city first accepted “refugees”—these “asylum-seeking” young men cut off a woman’s clitoris with a pair of scissors and jammed them into her vagina. Through the next few years, Middle Eastern “refugees” raped and gang-raped local women in city-center parks. In 2018, the city made international headlines when news emerged that Muslim grooming gangs—Middle Eastern “refugees,” again—groomed and raped local girls aged between 10 and 14, one of whom had committed suicide.
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