It wasn't me, how we got there.

  For many people, their worldview typically expands in proportion to both their brain and their life experiences.  It all starts in the baby phase with food and touching are the only things that matter, then as the baby grows just a bit, clean diapers start to come into play as it is quite uncomfortable for them; of course this is the parents fault as it is the parents who put the diapers on the small child. At this point in human development, the world-view is limited to what the body needs and what the body can touch.

  As mobility improves for the soon to be toddler their worldview expands even further up and into the post the crawling phase.  As the mobility continues to grow many children learn where to forage for food, that would be the kitchen, and to ensure that some of the other items at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are secured; some of those items being water, shelter, and sleep.  Physiological Needs, the title of the lowest level, will be revisited later.

  Our sample child is still not capable of knowing how to address the second lowest of Maslow’s layers, Safety Needs, with emotional security being the exception; thus leaving the parents holding the bag on the rest of the items at that level.  The middle level, Social Belonging, speaks of family, friendships, and more.  For the child, this possibly occurs at that point when socialization is thrust upon them by the parents.  Unfortunately, in this the current year many parents offload the socialization aspect of parenting to strangers, TVs, ‘smart phones’, and eventually pre-school followed up by actual-school.  In older times, predating the nuclear family, things were not left to strangers or even just the parents; the multi- generational family did the work, this included the grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even older cousins were involved.  Recalling that Maslow’s Hierarchy describes human needs, it is no wonder that as technology and strangers have invaded and replaced the family, the kids are no longer alright and a higher level of sociopathic behaviour has emerged within western societies.

  David Riedman maintains a database of K-12 shootings from 1966 to present, which can be found at https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings.  An interesting exercise would be to lay on some additional data; data such as population, per capita GDP, the party of the POTUS, and some historical landmarks such like the ubiquitous spread of TV along with the advent and introduction of social media.

  Regarding the data found in the link above, following data was extracted: in 1966 the number of shootings was 9 with the average for each decade is as follows: for the 1970s - 16.6, 1980s - 22.7, 1990s - 29.9, 2000s - 37.1, 2010s - 52.6, and for the 2020s so far the average is 257.4 as only the completed years were counted with 2024 having 310 at the time of this writing.  The most shootings were at the High-School level, coming in at 61.1%.

  The purpose of any system can be understood by its output, especially when the system’s timeline extends over years and decades.  Of course, while one must always keep in mind ‘The Law of Unintended Consequences’, this concept falls apart when things are going badly and there is no effort towards correcting the course.

  Returning to the mid layer of Maslow’s Hierarchy and that Social Belonging is where the damage begins.  As mentioned earlier, the outsourcing of the socializing children has had ever growing consequences for years now, and for decades many people have been going along with this idea more and more.  Once Social Belonging fails, the Self-esteem layer becomes harder to manifest for the individual; people in this situation are not going to see any respect, any recognition of who they are, and thus they have no ego especially when they are treated as if made of cellophane.

  While K-12 shootings are the low hanging fruit for the MSM, the raise in the number of shooters is not the only signal that something is seriously wrong across society.  Without a personal identity, a person’s EGO presents much like a rudderless ship open to being boarded and commandeered; as such, with a foreign hand doing the steering, many young people ended up with an understanding of themselves that didn’t match who they are; this resulted in lives being ruined due to just how far things went with the invention of trans-gender related bottom and top surgeries.

  Falling under the umbrella of the ‘banality of evil’ is the enforcement of personal pro-nouns with the promotion of Bill C-16 in to law.  The problem with this facet of the Canadian political landscape is that Bill C-16 was done in the name of inclusivity; much like the Affirmative-Action laws down in the USA.  Both Canada’s C-16 and the US’ Affirmative-Action laws are effectively a zero-sum game with a twist; that twist being that one side and one side only has government backing coupled with the access to legal protection, and by extension, inflict legal punishment.

  Sticking with the personal pronoun topic, for some they had the need to assert their off-typical pronouns to make them feel better; an apology to the reader if you can’t determine if the proceeding words were numerically confusing, but that was the point.  This is again an indicator of what Maslow identified as social belonging, because without a solid EGO, the ID will take the upper hand.  Freud saw the danger of a ruling ID when it is left to it-self without a substantive and solid EGO.

  The personal pronoun and gender expression demands are the logical conclusion of an over emphasis on the ID.  Consider the comic book world where people are empowered and then they make the choice of using that power for helping themselves or towards the ideal of helping others; many of the classic stories follow the same story arc; typically the villains were the ones who helped themselves and the heroes were those who helped the ones without power, those being the others.

  The public Internet coupled with Social Media has changed the political landscape as first attributed to Stalin in the form ‘If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy.  If millions die, that’s only statistics’ (Washington Post 20 January 1947).  It is the opinion of this author that on the day of his birth (Friday the 13th) he was born into a society of people who believed in the WE, that was changed into a society of ME around the 1980s, and that then became a society of IT WASN’T ME.  This WASN’T ME narrative is now presenting itself typically in two ways, the softer way is simply playing dodge-ball with a pointed question and the second is to point towards someone else and blame them, other-wise known as ‘throwing them under the bus’; and, when all else fails it seems that there is always “climate change” to fall back on.