How Trans Exposed the Stupidity of Our Elites

If there’s one lesson to be learnt from Supreme Court ruling on what a woman is, it is surely this: never again should we trust the wisdom and authority of our supposed betters and superiors. The paradox of the stupidity of clever people may be age-old, but it’s come to the fore with a gruesome absurdity in recent years.

Ever since the Great Awokening of around 10 years ago, our intellectual elite, in government and in our institutions, has abetted in the fantasy that a man can become a woman – either through undergoing cosmetic surgery or even through performative utterance alone. Our superficially educated clerisy toed this line for utterly primal motives. They wanted to be part of the herd, to obey the norms of the in-group, for fear of ostracism and to avoid the terrible fate of those who made dissenting noises. They displayed a raw, base drive for self-preservation.

The stupidity of our educated elite proliferated not just in obvious places (like the top universities, which for decades have been citadels of brain-rot conformity), but also manifested elsewhere. Respected journals such as Scientific American and the Lancet went along with it. The NHS went along with it. Only a few weeks ago, British newspapers were still referring to some rapists as ‘she’. Surgeons became the tools of an ideology, doing what the sterilisers and lobotomists of yesteryear did. They maimed healthy and vulnerable young people because the upper echelons of society had been swept up in a delusion – a delusion that most ordinary people regard with bafflement and horror.

Was the overclass always so bovine and suggestible? Aldous Huxley wrote in his non-fiction work of 1958, Brave New World Revisited: ‘Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.’ This sentiment reflected Huxley’s Fabian inheritance, but a Fabian mindset has long outlived those who once described themselves as such.

This thinking – that a superior, enlightened and progressive elite has the right and duty to guide the ignorant masses, to deliver them from barbarism and folly – flourished well into the 21st century. We saw this attitude in all its supercilious condescension during the Brexit vote of 2016, when the elites – the economists, the Bank of England, the Financial Times, Will Hutton – voiced in collective bleating that Britain would collapse should the knuckle-scraping Cro-Magnons vote to leave the European Union. We did vote to leave, but calamity never happened. Now it’s countries in the EU that are floundering most, both economically and socially.

Similarly, it was the apparently omniscient elites who ordered us to stay indoors and stay apart when the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in 2020. They were the panicky, power-hungry ones who barked about the imperative to follow ‘the science’, even though there is no such thing as ‘the science’, only provisional knowledge and contingent theories. It has been the same insulated elites and gilded graduates, with their in-group speech codes, who have been telling us with a straight face that a ‘woman can have a penis’.

The late sociologist, Christopher Lasch, warned us years ago about the ‘revolt of the elites’, as our new cosmopolitan rulers abandoned all ties and obligations to their nations and fellow citizens. Even he would be astonished by the extent to which they’ve abandoned sanity and rationality, too.

Source: Spiked