Thank you so much for this exceptional paragraph- "Leaning on Philip Rieff rather than Pius XI, Trueman points out that, "in traditional cultures, the role of the elites is to transmit society’s values and beliefs down through the generations, ensuring continuity and stability;" whereas our modern elites have "adopted the opposite calling." They have taken up the posture of "irresponsible iconoclasts," who see their task, not as one "of preservation and transmission," but rather as one of "demolition and negation." Of this, says Trueman, "we have a prime example in Williams’s complicity in demolishing even what it means to be an embodied person, transforming it from an objective given into play-dough, the raw material of a sacred—or perhaps better, sacrilegious—journey."
Thanks again Mr. Farrow. If you would like to read an interesting story from a young woman who went to hell and back I will leave the link below. A snipet from her story:
Instead, I silently berated myself and catastrophized internally until I mustered the courage to tell my very pro-LGBT therapist: being trans had been a massive mistake.
I remember her response clear as day: “But you always tell me about your terrible dysphoria!”
“I know, but I… I don’t think that’s what it is” I replied, and started to tell her my still developing thoughts on how I had developed the “dysphoria” after finding out about gender identities online as a teenager, when I had been struggling with so many other emotional issues for a long time, and that in retrospect I must have gotten carried away, thinking that being trans was the explanation and solution for all of my problems. She wasn’t really hearing me, and questioned the things I said from the angle of “you’re trying to talk yourself out of being trans because transphobia is making you hate yourself.” Ironic that nobody ever questioned my desire to be trans that way.
I'd first like to wish everyone on this post a happy & blessed Easter.
Thank you so much for this exceptional paragraph- "Leaning on Philip Rieff rather than Pius XI, Trueman points out that, "in traditional cultures, the role of the elites is to transmit society’s values and beliefs down through the generations, ensuring continuity and stability;" whereas our modern elites have "adopted the opposite calling." They have taken up the posture of "irresponsible iconoclasts," who see their task, not as one "of preservation and transmission," but rather as one of "demolition and negation." Of this, says Trueman, "we have a prime example in Williams’s complicity in demolishing even what it means to be an embodied person, transforming it from an objective given into play-dough, the raw material of a sacred—or perhaps better, sacrilegious—journey."
Thanks again Mr. Farrow. If you would like to read an interesting story from a young woman who went to hell and back I will leave the link below. A snipet from her story:
Instead, I silently berated myself and catastrophized internally until I mustered the courage to tell my very pro-LGBT therapist: being trans had been a massive mistake.
I remember her response clear as day: “But you always tell me about your terrible dysphoria!”
“I know, but I… I don’t think that’s what it is” I replied, and started to tell her my still developing thoughts on how I had developed the “dysphoria” after finding out about gender identities online as a teenager, when I had been struggling with so many other emotional issues for a long time, and that in retrospect I must have gotten carried away, thinking that being trans was the explanation and solution for all of my problems. She wasn’t really hearing me, and questioned the things I said from the angle of “you’re trying to talk yourself out of being trans because transphobia is making you hate yourself.” Ironic that nobody ever questioned my desire to be trans that way.
https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name?r=18ll6h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&s=r
It is a strange world that treats mental illness as a norm. And churches are turning themselves into pretzels.