LET’S GET METAPHYSICAL

 

"I just broke epistemology!"

We live in strange times which are, if anything, getting stranger. As if technocratic charlatans had not caused enough mischief in the physical world, now they have turned their attention to tinkering with its metaphysical counterpart. An example.

The case of Hunter Biden’s laptop is known to all, and it must be the most famous computer in history after the one invented in WW2 by Englishman Alan Turing at Bletchley Park (where I have seen the original), and which was used to crack Germany’s Enigma code. But something much stranger has happened concerning Biden Junior’s laptop.

Realising that he must be seen to fight his corner in an increasingly difficult situation, the younger Biden has hired a legal team to take the fight to his enemies. I imagine their fees would take a fairly large computer to tally up. But they have made a curious move. While denying the existence of the laptop, or at least refusing to confirm or deny, they have nevertheless demanded legal action be taken against those who disseminated the information on the hard drive whether the PC existed or not.

This is an extraordinary cognitive move. The laptop doesn’t necessarily exist or not exist, but an aggressive legal case must be prepared in case it does. The device has gone from being a standard piece of domestic IT to being Schrödinger’s laptop.

But let’s move from political scandal to social justice, and the world of transgenderism. Here, we move from the realm of speculative quantum mechanics to the more familiar territory of old-time religion. A Scottish governmental bill has just been blocked by the UK government. The bill would have allowed children as young as 16 to be legally recognised as the opposite gender to their biological identity simply by self-identifying as such. This is no mere woke idiocy, this is tinkering with epistemology itself. It is not gender that is being subverted, it is the truth of gender.

Governmental policy across Europe is moving into alignment. If a man elects to be known as a woman, not only must you address this person with approved pronouns, they can also compete at high levels in women’s sports, adopt children under registration as a woman, and use women’s private spaces such as toilets, showers, dormitories and prisons.

These people are not legally recognized as posing as a woman or acting out a role as a woman, they are legally recognized as a woman. To state that men cannot menstruate or become pregnant is no longer a truism. It could cost your job.

This is, of course, a very modern, Sodom and Gomorrah reboot of transubstantiation, the Catholic element of High Mass whereby the wine and wafer of Holy Communion are not seen as symbolic of the body and blood of Christ, but literally so.

Who would have thought the excesses of Catholicism could have been bested by drag queens and rapists who don’t much like the idea of going to a male prison? I suppose we should be grateful they are not burning heretics under the terms of the new religion, at least not yet.

A mad world, my masters.