`Ello chaps! Mouse ‘ere, weighing in on a most recent atrocity from the land down under. It appears that these Aussie chaps not only defile the Queen’s English, some of them defile modern woke sensitivity by stating the truth, even when it tramples upon the effete feelings of the truth-challenged. Here’s the scoop, laddies.
An Australian senator has lashed out at a Melbourne private school for supporting a teenager who identifies as a cat.
Ralph Babet from the United Australia Party said the bizarre story is a symptom of the 'radical left' running rampant and 'unchecked' in society. Quite so, sir.
The eighth grade school girl is allowed to act like a feline during class as long as it does not distract other students, according to the report in the Herald Sun. I dare say the school board has had a bang on the head. But I digress..
There’s no one quite so woke as a white gen-X-er-with no identity of his, her or xer own, only a desire for peer affirmation. This has given rise to the modern fusion of wokeness and identity politics in which unholy notions of identity are baptised in the tepid stream of cultural neurosis.
“Who am I” is among the most meaningful of human questions. Answering it without resorting to religion, to a national history or any kind of tradition is painfully difficult for most people. Answering it without regard for reality opens one up to insanity.
Human beings need identities and identity politics creates manufactured identities, some obviously artificial like the endless alphabet soup of sexual identities, and others, racial and ethnic, more subtly warped like Latinx and black nationalism that replace actual tradition with victimhood. But as leftism always does, it marches towards self immolation, demanding that the rest of us march with them.
Identity Politics
Identity politics, like brand consumerism, is identity for people without healthy identities. A few examples may help.
The political resurrection of black nationalism was ushered in by Barack Obama, who wrote an entire book about his neurotic sense of racial inauthenticity. Sexual identity politics is equally neurotic. What then, shall we conclude regarding otherkin and therian identity?
Human/Animal Identity
These are people who identify so strongly with animals, they don't even consider themselves human. They fall into two main groups: there are otherkin, people who identify with mythical creatures such as unicorns or dragons and therians, individuals who identify with earthly animals likes wolves, foxes, cats, dogs, essential oil zealots, Barney Frank and Ed Davey etc.
Both these classifications have online followings and communities. For years, otherkin and therians have used social media platforms like Tumblr and Instagram to discuss their experiences of identifying with other species. Many of these eggplants also make YouTube videos describing their experiences. How does it happen then?
Oversensitive identity politics can spring from either real persecution or internal insecurities. The persecuted react to oppression by building up the internal community while the neurotic go on the warpath in search of external validation. Persecuted people don’t have the freedom or the free time to dictate the behavior of others. Neurotics, unable to control themselves, instead try to control others, turning their defense mechanisms into rules for everyone else to follow. This is where the identity craze comes from.
And the rules keep changing because without God they fail to address the internal root of the problem. Thus you have gormless individuals identifying as an Italian meatball, a demi-gray ambonec, or a cat. But I digress—again.
Senator Babet took aim at the story on his Facebook page Sunday, demanding an end to 'woke' politics.
'Can we just put a stop to this garbage right now. You go to school to learn reading, writing and arithmetic,' he wrote. 'You are not a cat. You are a little girl. The end.'
Neurotics say Babet is mean-Spirited, short-sighted and vengeful for mis-species-ing this poor neurotic individual on her way to the litter box.
I say ‘Good show’!
These people have a severe mental illness, their self-awareness level coming in at a solid zero. Stampcrabs, yes?
But there is hope, lads. It is after all, the Good Book that can cure everything from hobnockers to bedswervers, and whiffle-whaffle wokesters obsessing over the best way to destroy the identity that God gave them. God’s Word knows who we are, and presents our true identity in Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 6:20).
I’m off to ride my seeing eye horse into the sunset, tally ho.
Stay outta the kitty litter.
ChurchMouse
