Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on After everything collapsed.

We are living in a post-analytical world on many issues and this leads to social ills that can’t be sustained for long. I fear that rising nationalism in the US and the UK is a symptom of a lack of trust in our institutions and the presumption that “someone must be held to account.” The rise of transgenderism is a result of the backlash against feminism, but once removed, as males who do not want to fit in with the toxic masculinity that prizes “alphas” over people are being led to believe that women have it easier because they don’t have to participate in that garbage (but of course they really don’t know what prices women pay for selfsame garbage.) And they glom onto the permission granted to fetishists to call themselves women, allowing them to pretend they are “expressing their true selves.”) This leads to an erosion of trust in our scientific communities due to an academic embrace of transgender belief. So, we can’t trust anyone to tell the truth, and lash out against the easiest targets. I don’t think transgenderism is the cause of nationalism, but I think it is contributing to it.

I don’t know where this is all going to end, but I do see people I consider friends being seduced by nationalism and focusing on immigrant communities in England as the source of a rise of violence against good British girls and that by expelling entire communities to clear the country of grooming gangs England will once again be safe from harm. In the US, resistance to ICE is considered to be supporting the rapes and murders committed by “illegals” and so people don’t trust liberals and are okay with the detention centers where detainees are not afforded the dignity that we extend even to the livestock in our industrial farms.

I’m afraid we are headed for worse times before we come to our senses and restore a semblance of civilization, and that may be what it takes even for people to recognize what a wrong turn we have taken on gender, among other problems.