Brilliant. Considering The Lottery was largely the metaphorical outcry of an urbane/ish middlebrow postwar liberal against the horrid, beastly primitive customs of the backward backwoods of America [one wonders how Jackson would have evaluated upland New Guinea of the same era], how perfect that the final end of progressive philosophy could be to validate the existence of such quaint local customs.

I wonder if that teacher would show them the movie The Wicker Man. The cop is a fairly unreformed Presbyterian sort, so maybe his finally being burned alive as a harvest sacrifice by the island’s unreconstructed pseudo-pagans would also now be considered valid.

In the final analysis, the actual issue isn’t the gun, the knife, or high-power acids: It’s the human who uses them. And, that’s why the jackasses are so afraid to actually deal with these issues–They don’t want to be all judgey, and put dangerous people away.

There was a news piece a few days ago about how a teacher was bewailing the fact that she’s starting to get students who are afraid to characterize the people in the well-known story by Shirley Jackson, The Lottery as being, y’know… Wrong. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise–The SJW assholes are finally starting to reap what they’ve been sowing in the schools, and are shocked, shocked I tell you, that the students they’ve carefully been teaching not to have morals or judgement… Mostly don’t.

Which is going to make it ever so much easier when the time comes to exterminate the lot of them, because all you’ll need to do is tell them that it’s a cultural value of yours to herd creatures like them into camps and then let nature take it’s course. And, like as not, that’s about the only solution that the nominally civilized are going to have–The rot is too deep, and entrenched. I don’t see an easy way to fix it, either, so the entire scabrous lot of them are probably going to have to go, and go unpleasantly, or we’re going to be subsumed in barbarism the likes of which no one has seen since the time of the Sea Peoples. Even the Fall of Rome wasn’t as bad as this next one is going to be, because most of the people who moved in on Rome wanted to ape Roman culture and the benefits of Roman civilization. This next bunch that we’ve grown up internally…? Nihilists, all.

Is this the difference between “social science” and engineering?

Wake me up when the correlation is over 0.75. I won’t even begin to think of a relationship until that.