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This is probably as good of a summary of Freudianism as I have found. What we would probably call today “Cultural Freudianism” was the most powerful force driving American thought (such as it was) in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. I also think it has ruined our culture by turning life into a hypersexualised mind game. The rule of our society by an elite whose main goal in life (beyond self-perpetuation in power) is to get “laid, high or drunk” is buttressed by Freudian concepts, and our shift to a therapeutic society certainly has its roots in Freudian psychoanalysis.

It’s interesting to note that the article states the following:

The odd thing is that those feelings go into abeyance at about age 5 and are suppressed. Much is forgotten or loses its attraction during this period, the latency period. During the latency period the child builds up what we call reaction-formations, of disgust and shame, which combine with what it is told by parents to form a ‘morality’, something missing from the first five years as any parent knows and hard enough to instil into the older child.

This is the period when rules of behaviour, when ethics and morality, when right and wrong are instilled into the child who is repeatedly told that the simple gratification of its wishes (as in the early years) is ‘dirty’, ‘naughty’, ‘bad’ etc. From an evolutionary point of view you can see why the tribes who managed to do this to their young probably functioned better and survived.

We believe what happens is that the child needs a respite between the purely instinctual development of the early years, and the eruption of strength and renewed desires and lusts at puberty.

Civilization, therefore, is based on the effective repression of individual desires. A good citizen represses their desires effectively; a bad citizen either gratifies themself in an anti-social way, or falls prey to the kind of illness we began by looking at.

The sexualisation of life at all phases–including this one–has been the goal of cultural Freudians and their paedophilic allies for a long time, and we see that coming back with a vengeance these days in the trans movement. But civilisation indeed depends on the suppression of these desires; no suppression, no civilisation, which is where we are headed without a jolting course change.

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance are uniting to introduce legislation announced Thursday to reduce the risks of large bank failures.

The Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act would propose harsher penalties for failed bank executives, which serves as a bipartisan response to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early March, according to Warren’s office. The proposed legislation would require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to recover some or all of executive payments from the three years prior to their bank’s failure, covering larger banks with more than $10 billion in assets.

Liz Warren, JD Vance join forces to punish execs of failed banks

It is not an accident that these two are leading the charge on this. Elizabeth Warren and J.D. Vance are, IMHO, the two most vociferous Scots-Irish populists on Capitol Hill. They’re on opposite ends of the political spectrum, to be sure, but ideology has never superseded resentment-based populism in Scots-Irish culture, it just took a catastrophe to bring it back into fashion. In that respect Warren and Vance are the heirs of people like Wright Patman, Carter Glass and Huey Long.

I’ve commented on this before. First, Elizabeth Warren:

Warren’s ancestors harboured a great deal of resentment towards those above them and shaped a great deal of public policy as a consequence of that resentment.  That’s what it’s going to take to get the kinds of policies passed the Democratic Socialists want, not the reality-obscuring intersectionality that dominates leftist rhetoric.  Whether they’re ready to appeal to a mentality that resents Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as much as it resents the Kochs remains to be seen.  Whether the Democrats are ready to embrace someone like Elizabeth Warren also remains to be seen. 

Elizabeth Warren and the Resentful Scots-Irish

And J.D. Vance:

But he’s also right about the oligarchic nature of American elites and their idea of staying in power. (Just check out our Gini coefficient…) So how to square the two? A simple approach would be to take a class-based approach.

JD Vance Can’t Handle the Truth. Or Can He?

If Elizabeth Warren–and others on the left–can get past the “faculty lounge” issues that dominate their discussion, and J.D. Vance–and others on the right–can get past the Reaganite “upward mobility” issues that dominate their memory, our politics will be upended once again by those notorious interlopers of our history, the Scots-Irish.

A woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential race appeared Tuesday in Moscow and said she was asking President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship.

Tara Reade, who worked in now-President Biden’s congressional office for a short period in 1993, said she wanted to stay in Russia after a Republican lawmaker told her she was in physical danger.

Reade, 59, said in an interview streamed by the Sputnik media group — a Russian press outlet — that she’d arrived in Russia as a vacationer.

“When I got off the plane in Moscow, for the first time in a very long time, I felt safe. And I felt heard and felt respected,” she said. “I’m still kind of in a daze a bit, but I feel very good,” she said. “I feel very surrounded by protection and safety.”

Biden sex assault accuser Tara Reade asks for Russian citizenship

It’s always been interesting that feminists have always believed the victim until it is politically inexpedient to do so. That was certainly the case in the Clinton years with the multiple flings that he engaged in. And it’s certainly the case with Tara Reade now, even with a President who doesn’t even come near to having what Bill Clinton had going for him.

But post-1960’s feminism has a suicidal streak to it, as the transgender movement has shown. And, as things become more and more unhinged on these shores, we can expect more and more people (like Tina Turner) to seek the safety and tranquility of others.