Transgenderism is caused by television
Summary: The policies of Western elites domestically and globally are not simply a matter of conquest and greed. Westerners have strange beliefs about how the world should be, and these beliefs are caused by prolonged exposure to television.
Transgenderism is television fantasy—nothing more, nothing less Advocates of gender theory claim “trans” and “nonbinary” people were always the norm (from the Roman emperor Elagabalus to “genderfluid monks”), until relegated to the margins by Eurocentric, Christian patriarchy. That’s untrue. Detractors frame transgenderism as evil, or a manifestation of Western decadence. That’s not enough. We need to unpack the causes of transgenderism.
The Vatican weighed in on the issue recently, decrying “gender-affirming” surgery as a violation of human dignity and God’s plan for human life. Having sought for decades to accommodate modernism and postmodern (pomo) ideological currents, the normally-compliant Catholic Church seems to have finally put its foot down. Transgenderism is a bridge too far.
Western-liberal thinkers predictably freaked out over the Church’s declaration. “Our church…still has a LOT to learn,” one transgender Catholic lamented to AP in an article (“Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives,” April 8, 2024). “We are Not an Ideology. Talk to us. Learn.”
True, pomo-liberal memes are not exactly ideology, for TV is neither Print nor Radio (and its ideational byproducts are not as cogent). Indoctrination via propaganda is a conscious affair. Meme conditioning of human behavior is subconscious. Propaganda is learned; memes are internalized.
And so, the “trans” meme is less an ideology than a delusion—the maximal logic of decades of collective hypnosis, mass atomization, and prolonged suspended disbelief. Ideologies, for all their flaws, are usually at least structured and coherent. Today’s frantic recirculation of 20th-century memes aims simply to validate (consumption-oriented) impulse and whim, while shoring up support for the experts.
Transgenderism is not caused by television directly (or in terms of efficient cause), but formally. TV forms an environment where fanciful notions of gender reconstitution and human transcendence take shape in the subconscious mind.
Western economics and governance offer a kaleidoscope of delusions
Transgenderism didn’t exist before the advent of television. There were always homosexuals, as well as heterosexuals who defied gender norms. Some societies have had eunuchs; others, “ladyboys.” Concepts such as “two-spirit” individuals are often touted by activists as well. But such individuals always belonged to a separate category apart from man and woman. The notion that your gender is whatever you feel, removed from biological reality, is caused by television hypnosis.
The fact that we must partake in this and other fantasies reveals a broader trend in Western-liberal governance to enforce trust in television across the board. This is because TV has lost its psychic effect and present-day elites are desperate to prop up the TV Paradigm. At the same time, the colossal psychological fallout of decades of our collective TV addiction is now coming into full view. And it’s ugly.
Transgenderism is one of the more insidious delusions engendered by the television viewing experience, designed to cleave humans off from traditional social bonds and responsibility while containing them within a cognitive headspace of perpetual imagination and self-indulgence. Behold the multitudes who are entertaining themselves with narcissistic AI-augmented portraits these days.
We now find ourselves in a “psychic interim” between seven decades of TV fantasy and the ascendant structures of digitally-retrieved memory. TV as a medium to project reality became TV as a tool to reshape reality, and when that didn’t work, we tried to reimagine reality entirely. Now, digital reality hits us like a brick wall.
As digital memory upends the modes and mythologies of 20th-century Electric universalism, people around the world re-pivot to traditional religion and traditional virtue. Solipsism, self-indulgence and fantasy-seeking may be the underpinnings of Western life, but they violate the moral guidelines of any traditional religion. This is why many Russians think they’re fighting in Ukraine against the antichrist.
But we of the West watched way too much TV, and now we are deeply confused about the nature of reality, as well as our identities, spirituality, and virtue. This is how Easter became the “Day of Trans Visibility.”
Our elites are true believers
The same people who tell us that Kiev can eject Russia from the former east of Ukraine, and that racism is America’s “No. 1 public health crisis,” and that Mother Earth will perish from man-made climate change—these are the folks who remind us that “gender affirmation is a human right." It’s easy to dismiss it all so cynically as an elite power grab, but our experts really do believe these things.
Unfortunately for them, most of their constituents don’t. As people no longer trust television, they will no longer behave according to cues they receive from television. New language must be invented and new restrictions on free speech must be enforced in order to rehash concepts like universalism, individualism, anti-traditionalism, and obsequience to science.
But memes should never seem contrived. The desperate, frantic re-invention of language and concepts by today’s Western thinkers undermines the subconscious trickery of liberal-memetic governance. Memes are no longer perceived as natural and irreproachable, but as labored and ideological. In McLuhan terms, “cool” TV memes have flipped into “hot” radio-style propaganda.
Meme purveyors now take on the air of a State religion of TV fantasy, which seeks to supplant Christianity and other traditional religions while keeping the fantasies of the Electric era alive. We may describe this entity as the Church of Social Justice.
The Church of Justice divides society into virtue castes based on perceived levels of “oppression” per intersectionality. Accordingly, disabled, overweight, transgender sex workers who are both refugees and “People of Color” (for example) are cast as the purest souls, while white, able-bodied, heteronormative men are purveyors of “privilege” and oppression.
It is our State religion of liberal “virtue” memes that exposes women to men in public bathrooms, that is revising Title IX, and that is instructing everyone that they can be whatever they imagine themselves to be. Nonbelievers are vilified as “fascists,” “racists” and “bigots,” while the “virtuous” are those who believe everything, recite the memes, and regulate their lives accordingly.
Humans are the problem
Habitually unable to learn the proper concepts, humans themselves are deemed “problematic” by the Church of Social Justice by virtue of our stubborn adherence to animal instincts such as sexual attraction and a desire for comfort. But “trans people” transcend the corporeal bounds of physical being through their awesome powers of imagination. That’s why we must call them “trans” and not “transgender.”
In reality, transgender people should be seen not as paragons of transcendence, but as victims of technology. The TV-stoked imagination becomes inflated at the expense of memory and common sense, and the warped features of the transgender body are an outward projection of a warped soul.
Transgenderism is one of numerous (TV) techno-humanist delusions guiding the West along its current trajectory. More broadly, the Church of Social Justice promises mankind a green energy-fueled world without borders, where transwomen will produce babies through science, where the unlocked creative potential of marginalized communities will fuel exponential growth, and where the collective affirmation of each and every new identity arising from our hyper-hypnotic, screen-addicted culture liberates humans from the trauma of timeless social conventions.
This brave new world of sci-fi fantasy can only unfold, however, if everyone believes. For people to believe, they would have to undergo frequent hypnosis in front of a TV screen, shut off from information that defies TV-era narratives. Today’s “Western values” belong to the pre-Internet age, and this is what Establishment political actors mean when they speak of “returning to normalcy.”
But cyberspace cannot be “managed” like a newspaper or TV network. Digital spaces both connect people and contrast facts to fiction, providing fertile ground for perspectives and mobilization beyond the reach of elites and their compliance mechanisms. For every MSM article proudly boasting of “trans youth” discovering their “authentic selves,” countless expressions of disgust appear in the comments.
Binary is digital, binary is life
Binaries creep up a lot in the real world. North Pole / South Pole. Night and day. Man or woman. Good vs evil. There may be “shades of grey” at times, but even these are understood in relation to two binary opposites. The real world is also a scary place of constant flux and unpredictability. TV (or digitalized TV via social media) helps us escape from that stressful world.
Digital memory (perfect and exact) is structured upon binary code, while digital spaces facilitate symmetrical, ubiquitous flows of information—everywhere and all at once. Facts and data vie with governing narratives, drawing attention to every contradiction while further unraveling trust in the system. The notion that humans should be reconditioned to understand themselves as gender “nonbinary” is a subliminal reaction to emerging digital-binary structures.
So, the Internet must be surveilled and controlled to protect “community standards,” and every concept of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thinking must now be ritualized and re-enforced in order to stave off the public’s imminent return to traditional religion. Defying one’s own common sense and instincts in order to profess loyalty to even the most outlandish of Social Justice concepts is the ultimate act of faith and devotion for the secularized mind.
As the edifice of liberal-memetic governance crumbles, TV-inculcated Westerners are forced to confront their beliefs and worldview. When humans are drawn to rethink their identity, they freak out. It happened to many in the 60s (as Radio ceded to TV), and it’s happening today (as TV cedes to Digital) as well.
The clash between TV fantasy and digital memory is the primary contradiction of our times. “Trans-“ anything (gender or human) is not the future, but the past.
Stand with science, because love is love
It may seem strange to connect the West’s present-day obsessions with science and sexual deviancy, but there is an underlying “logic.” The point is simply that we “trust the experts,” no matter how illogical or absurd the conceptual leap. “Trans rights” is not merely about “supporting trans folks,” for doing so could just as easily mean accepting, protecting, and even elevating such individuals as part of a “special” class. But, as we are reminded, “transwomen are women.”
We must trust the experts because they are the experts, and the experts became experts by eloquently tossing TV-era memes into colorful word salads. Today’s Western systems reward obedience over intellectual prowess, and this is all too apparent in research, where DEI initiatives increasingly hold sway and “scientists” scramble over each other to stoke hysteria over climate, gender, and race.
We recently learned from PsyPost.com, for example, that “scientists have found…both IQ scores and genetic markers associated with intelligence can predict political inclinations towards liberalism and lower authoritarianism” (“Genetic variations help explain link between cognitive ability and liberalism,” April 10, 2024). Now, we learn that liberals are not only smarter, but genetically superior. It’s science!
Beyond the veneer of scientific discovery, experts can do little more to rationalize gender theory than to dismiss skeptics as “forces of hate and fascism.” Empiricism in Western science has flipped under TV conditions into inane fixation on feelings, and “deep science” has become the latest gimmick in Western science to prop up 20th-century delusions. Those skeptical of gender theory, man-made climate change, or any other meme simply don’t understand deep science.
The “deplorables” may not support or care about such concepts, but they do know the real world, and there is perhaps no greater reality for human beings than the physical and psychological repercussions of mutilation. “Common” people generally view transgenderism as an abomination of God and His plan for you. Common people often have more common sense.
Why transgenderism, though?
There have always been men who are more effeminate and women who are more masculine, but the performative zeitgeist and boundless escapism of TV culture trend society toward feminine traits, sexual fetishes, and heightened attention to “feelings.” T. Adorno’s “F scale” is often referenced by post-War (TV-era) leftists, who conflate “fascism” with masculine (“authoritarian”) personality traits.
Under late-stage TV conditions, features once deemed “normal” and admirable among humans—such as physical strength, sexual appeal, and unapologetic confidence—are now cast as hindrances to progress. Trans-/post-humanist actors are a part of this movement, seeking to redesign or replace humans entirely.
As TV is displaced by digital structures, TV culture flips from creative self-expression into the institutionalization of feigned individualism and obsessive anti-traditionalism. Today’s never-ending bureaucratic list of “identity” categories enforced through “hate speech” legislation fuses Print legalism and social categories with TV iconoclasm.
Electric culture retrieved idealized notions of pre-literate society. Rock music, hippie aesthetics, tattoos, feminism, BLM, and pagan goddess worship all reveal Electric sensibility. Digital retrieves the medieval, making all of the above seem dated and “cheugy.” Electric mythologies must now be actively promulgated.
In addition to the attention, social approval, media adoration, and professional incentives conferred upon those who opt for gender reassignment, many transgender people are plagued by a range of other personality disorders arising from the TV-centric psychotechnological ecosystem—namely, depression, delusion, and antisocial personality traits.
Some “trans” people could be sexually frustrated and unable to find a mate in the context of social media-era isolation, or due to their own insecurities. Living out the fantasy of being the opposite gender can become a way of supplanting the closeness and connection of a spouse.
And, as the purveyors of gender theory well know, children are prone to persuasion, craving love and attention. Children have become the sacrificial lambs of the Church of Social Justice, placed upon the altar by parents, political elites, and “social influencers” desperate to stay relevant in a world that has left them behind.
Advances in generative AI and augmented reality will further blur the line between fantasy and reality, stoking gender dysphoria, drug abuse, social-media addiction and other public mental health crises in the next few years. Meanwhile, the rise of Trumpian “populism” will further agitate pomo-liberal elites and activists.
Unable to admit to any fault, elites and activists blame society for their own failures. “Star-Trek utopia could have unfolded by now if only we had believed.” “Trans kids would have matured into happy adults if only their gender identity had been nourished from a young age." This is why most activists are so keen on “grooming” children—they are driven more by insecurity than by sexual fetish.
Conclusion
Transgenderism is simply one of many unfortunate personality disorders arising from the TV-conditioning of the human mind—a notion that didn’t exist before television, and won’t endure long after TV fades into the background. Digital Life will cause us to radically reevaluate our worldview and values, and the tide of public opinion will more definitively turn against “gender affirmation” in coming years.
Youth should be reminded they are as they were meant to be—the way God formed them. Youth should be taught to make the most of their natural physical and intellectual assets. Youth should be encouraged to devote themselves to others and to find appreciation in what they were given, rather than to obsess over what they don’t have (whether in terms of possessions or physical attributes).
Digitalization will revive traditional virtue in the West as well. Sadly, many more children will be led by today’s political actors to pursue a path of lifelong physical and mental health problems. But our “trans kids” will grow up, and they will realize they were manipulated and mutilated by zealous activists, “educators,” and virtue-signaling parents. There will then be accountability.
Until then, we can expect more hysteria, more gaslighting, more virtue-signaling, more profiteering, and more compliance-seeking by Social Justice disciples.
We do not virtue-signal our compliance, and we decline to venerate the memes. We are neither hateful nor transphobic. We simply choose not to believe.
Transgenderism is TV fantasy—nothing more, nothing less.