Conspirituality - Bonus Sample: JP Sears is Definitely Binary
Aired: 2022-08-22
Duration: 06:22


=== Supporting vs. Indoctrinating (06:17) ===

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[00:00:31]  There's a big difference between supporting the child and indoctrinating a child.
[00:00:39]  If a child says, hey, I'm trans, they don't need to be bullied.
[00:00:45]  They need to be supported.
[00:00:47]  They might need mental help.
[00:00:49]  Notice he can't even say the word bullied.
[00:00:52]  He couldn't get it out.
[00:00:53]  I don't know, his background maybe hit a little too close to home for him.
[00:00:59]  Maybe there's some transference going on there.
[00:01:03]  Not going to psychoanalyze it, even though he feels fine psychoanalyzing an entire cohort of children by stating that if they think they're transgender, they might need mental help.
[00:01:16]  Personally, I don't believe God makes mistakes and is like, dude, you were meant to be a girl, but I put you in a boy's body.
[00:01:22]  Now we've moved into an even more fundamentalist version of Christianity.
[00:01:27]  We're talking creation theory here.
[00:01:29]  So God had created.
[00:01:31]  That doesn't mean he thinks that the earth is necessarily 6,000 years old.
[00:01:35]  He may.
[00:01:36]  I don't know that.
[00:01:37]  But the idea of creationism is apparent right there because By his estimation, there was some metaphysical force that molded humans specifically.
[00:01:49]  But this is also indicative of thought-terminating cliches.
[00:01:53]  The idea that if God intended this, then there's basically nothing you can say that would ever be debated.
[00:02:03]  It is what it is.
[00:02:05]  And that's, again, where the binary nature of this comes in.
[00:02:09]  Now, of course, research in biology shows and in psychology shows that there are no binaries here.
[00:02:18]  We're not this species that was created as Adam and Eve.
[00:02:22]  Nothing supports that on any level whatsoever.
[00:02:28]  But we have these very old operating systems of both culture and neurology that dictate certain parameters by which we live.
[00:02:38]  And so it's hard to have these sorts of conversations in general.
[00:02:44]  There will never be any headway made if this is the rules of the game.
[00:02:49]  But there are so many holes in the argument.
[00:02:52]  And here's one that is pretty close to home for me because he brings up something that I recently saw as well.
[00:02:59]  And it kind of boggles the imagination that he doesn't realize why this may be the case.
[00:03:07]  There was that Bill Maher quote you may have seen it was going down going around a month or two ago where he's looking at the trend of trans children saying like cool there's a lot in California barely any in Ohio so that means either California is creating them or Ohio is shaming them and I think there's absolutely an agenda not to like identify kids who are trans
[00:03:38]  I think there's an agenda to create them.
[00:03:41]  Yeah, you said it, but of course that doesn't jive with your belief system.
[00:03:49]  There is this anti-gay messaging I remember from a while ago of people saying, why weren't there any gay people 100 years ago?
[00:03:59]  There were.
[00:04:00]  There were reasons you didn't know about it because they couldn't talk about it.
[00:04:04]  Ohio has a number of anti-trans bills.
[00:04:07]  Besides that, if that's the mindset of the people who live there, do you really think the children are going to feel comfortable talking about these things?
[00:04:16]  Or if they do bring it up, what type of response are the parents going to give?
[00:04:22]  I don't know what it's like being a parent.
[00:04:24]  I'm not going to be one.
[00:04:26]  So I don't really feel the need to comment on parenting issues.
[00:04:31]  It's something that I leave to Matthew and Julian on the podcast.
[00:04:35]  But that said, I remember being a child.
[00:04:38]  And there's a lot of that that still influences me today.
[00:04:43]  That's all of us.
[00:04:45]  And so to put this idea that comes out of nowhere, This identity, your identity is bound with your environment.
[00:04:55]  We know this.
[00:04:56]  Where you live and the influences you have sometimes conflict with your psychology and your biology.
[00:05:05]  Sometimes it supports it.
[00:05:08]  He is going fully in the direction of conflict, not support, and saying that conflict is the right path ahead because supporting is some form of indoctrination or creation.
[00:05:25]  What This kind of conspiratorial thinking would create a nefarious agenda of parents wanting to create transgender children.
[00:05:36]  Now you might be able to argue that the support might be too much.
[00:05:42]  You could honestly argue, because we know that our prefrontal cortex isn't fully set until about age 25, that people go through phases.
[00:05:53]  These are things that can be debated.
[00:05:56]  I'm not taking a side on any of that, but we can talk about that.
[00:06:00]  But to open up by saying that someone who expresses it might need mental health help, and then not to realize that the environment you're in matters, so there's probably a reason why more people in California feel comfortable expressing to their parents what's going on than in Ohio, Really?