Rod Dreher: Elves, Hobbits, & Loony Law Profs

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Elves, Hobbits, & Loony Law Profs

Berkeley academic shows why it might be time to get Tolkien-pilled

By Rod Dreher
July 12, 2022

This woman testifying actually teaches law at Berkeley. Sen. Josh Hawley went all Matt Walsh on her. It’s a thing of beauty to see:

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546891926997188608

It’s amazing how brittle that woke shtick is outside of the precincts controlled by these people. The Berkeley prof won’t answer the senator’s question, and accuses him of threatening the lives of trans people by asking, in effect, “What is a woman?” We have to stop honoring this crap. Stand up to it. Mock it. Refuse to live by the lie.

Here’s that same kook again, with her septum ring, being arrogant to a senator who is asking a perfectly normal question:

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1546915804268183554

Tonight I had dinner with a visiting American academic in Budapest. He’s a conservative, and had some pretty bleak stories to tell about the soft totalitarianism that has taken over. He said that he once thought that he would be able to go into the humanities field, and be treated like he would treat anybody else: with an open mind, and welcoming debate. Now, mid-career, he has been cured of that illusion. He’s not sure why any intelligent young person who wasn’t a left-wing radical would undertake to be an academic.

He said, “I suspect you and I share the same skepticism of Donald Trump, but I’ll give him this: he forced the Left to drop the mask. They were so freaked out by him that they revealed what totalitarians they had become. When Obama was president, and they thought they had History on their side, they thought they might be able to tolerate us, just barely. Trump forced their hand.”

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How on earth do we live together? This law professor thinks even questioning her dogma civilly is an act of violence that will result in deaths. And people like her are the dominant power-holders in this country. You might be thinking, “Seriously, Rod? You seriously believe that a Berkeley law professor is more powerful than two US Senators?” No, not strictly speaking. But Prof. Khiara Bridges speaks as a member of the culturally dominant elite in the US. How many people in positions of power and influence in the national media, in business, in advertising, in entertainment, in medicine, in the US military, and so forth, are more likely to agree openly with Prof. Bridges or either senator? Do students in Prof. Bridges’s classes feel that they have the liberty to disagree with her? Do employees in major companies feel that they have the liberty to say they agree with Sen. Hawley on the matter of transgenderism, without suffering career damage, and even risking being fired? That’s real power. They have it, and they use it.

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Curtis Yarvin has an interesting essay about being “Tolkien-pilled” about the culture war. Excerpt:

America is a political marriage of blue-state elves and red-state hobbits. The elves are terrified of the hobbits’ pitchforks. They can only survive by ruling the hobbits with an iron hand—or at least, by inundating the hobbits’ brains with pro-elf propaganda—or better yet, both.

Any elf knows that the hobbits could indeed overthrow the elves by force tomorrow. All those guns! But that would require hobbits to be something other than hobbits.

Hobbits just want to grill. Hobbits just want to be governed sensibly, in a way that makes sense to hobbits, so that they can just grill. Hobbits have little desire for power and no great talent for it, which is what makes them so easy for the elves to rule. And hobbits are not—not in their hearts—into telling elves how to live their lives.

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Read it all. Yarvin has some strange strategery in there, and I can’t go all the way with him, but it’s interesting to ponder, and besides, his Elf-Hobbit distinction is a useful one. I actually don’t care about crazypants Berkeley law profs, but I am forced to care about them, because they are changing the country in ways that present a threat to the stability of family and the nation. Hungary, where I’m staying this week, is a country ruled by hobbits who found a hobbit with elf-like cunning to run the place on their behalf, and to protect their way of life. (It doesn’t hurt that he’s one-quarter honey badger.) Wish we had such a person.



Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/elves-hobbits-loony-law-profs/