Category: Cultural insanity
Yesterday’s news item about the 69-year-old man who “identifies” as 20-some years younger and demands a legal date-of-birth change has sparked some creative (albeit sneaky and slightly felonious) thinking. Sure, the guy’s claim is Onion-worthy. But the most ridiculous self-identity claims are being taken seriously enough now for claimants to extort money out of victims — with the assistance of so-called human-rights tribunals (must read; that news out of Canada is as absurd as it is scary). It may soon be that the only way to compete in a world gone mad is to “identify” as something totally self serving…
He’s 69, but says doctors have told him he has the body of a 45-year-old. So. Naturally. These days: Dutch “positivity guru” demands a legal age change because he “identifies” as younger. And being younger would help him get more responses on Tinder (among other things). He’s actually awaiting a court ruling. If it’s a joke, it’s one he’s taking pretty far. If it’s an act of culture jamming, it’s sublime. If it’s the Netherlands’ version of The Onion, I’ve been had. Others are inspired by his example. 🙂 Here’s the original news story (in Dutch). (H/T Shel)
Furrydoc and I had lunch together yesterday. We talked politics as we so often do. And we found ourselves in the same state — a not-so-unusual state, these days. We wished news would simply go away. We’re both taking steps to avoid it. The world seems to have gone completely mad. Hate pretends to represent love. Rage replaces thought. Ignorance supplants knowledge. Yet try though we might, both of us find ourselves steeped in the noise of news as if we breathe it in with the very air. Then she told me she talked to her clinic staff about some…