Its also a curiosity why Medicine specifically has been infected maybe more than other professions by the woke mind virus. It may have to do with the Luxury Beliefs phenom, given that medical people tend be from or in the upper echelons of society (as the article itself says) and most of these Luxury Beliefs are indeed emanating from elite institutions, including medical schools.
My theory is that it’s because Medicine has been feminized. The women were more successful at changing what Medicine is and does (in order to make it suit their needs) than in, say, Physics or Engineering because Medicine is and does what doctors say it is and does. Physics and Engineering don’t care. Bridges stay up and Physics experiments work on their own terms. They don’t change to fit what kind of careers physicists and engineers hope to get out of them.
Medicine has become much more touchy-feely than when we baby-boomers now retired trained, much more concerned with talking and listening to the concerns of the worried well, particularly worried and well women. This is a practice style that women create by their natures and by the fact that it leaves more time for family when you don’t spend all your time in the operating room or up all night with a sick patient. Lots of women do those “hard” jobs, certainly, but lots of women don’t have to and still earn a living, so they don’t. That’s why we train more and more doctors but there never seem to be enough to do the tough jobs that require open-ended time commitment, not just finishing a “shift” like nurses do.
So they have lots of time to indulge these “Medicine-as-Social-Justice” fantasies as luxury beliefs. And as women carve out power bases in medical schools and regulatory bodies, they can shape the rest of the profession by “appropriateness” rules and creating taboos. The rest don’t like to rock the boat because “being difficult“ was another sin that women invented and now enforce with very real consequences like licence suspensions.
I think those are some well considered comments. It makes sense to me. As an engineer, I am pretty happy that bridges don't care about the engineer's (or regulators) feelings.
This is great. I am almost 60 and in my entire life (mostly living in Montreal) I can count the number of actual racists I have met in Canada on two hands, max. The pearl clutching hysterics of the progressives is out of control. And yes this good guy - bad guy dualism, and the resentment it fosters (by design, see the M.O. of Lenin, Vladimir), is social poison, and needs to be stopped.
Excellent piece, and a touching story by Chris
Its also a curiosity why Medicine specifically has been infected maybe more than other professions by the woke mind virus. It may have to do with the Luxury Beliefs phenom, given that medical people tend be from or in the upper echelons of society (as the article itself says) and most of these Luxury Beliefs are indeed emanating from elite institutions, including medical schools.
Edit: This is Leslie. (E-mal mix-up at Substack).
My theory is that it’s because Medicine has been feminized. The women were more successful at changing what Medicine is and does (in order to make it suit their needs) than in, say, Physics or Engineering because Medicine is and does what doctors say it is and does. Physics and Engineering don’t care. Bridges stay up and Physics experiments work on their own terms. They don’t change to fit what kind of careers physicists and engineers hope to get out of them.
Medicine has become much more touchy-feely than when we baby-boomers now retired trained, much more concerned with talking and listening to the concerns of the worried well, particularly worried and well women. This is a practice style that women create by their natures and by the fact that it leaves more time for family when you don’t spend all your time in the operating room or up all night with a sick patient. Lots of women do those “hard” jobs, certainly, but lots of women don’t have to and still earn a living, so they don’t. That’s why we train more and more doctors but there never seem to be enough to do the tough jobs that require open-ended time commitment, not just finishing a “shift” like nurses do.
So they have lots of time to indulge these “Medicine-as-Social-Justice” fantasies as luxury beliefs. And as women carve out power bases in medical schools and regulatory bodies, they can shape the rest of the profession by “appropriateness” rules and creating taboos. The rest don’t like to rock the boat because “being difficult“ was another sin that women invented and now enforce with very real consequences like licence suspensions.
I think those are some well considered comments. It makes sense to me. As an engineer, I am pretty happy that bridges don't care about the engineer's (or regulators) feelings.
This is great. I am almost 60 and in my entire life (mostly living in Montreal) I can count the number of actual racists I have met in Canada on two hands, max. The pearl clutching hysterics of the progressives is out of control. And yes this good guy - bad guy dualism, and the resentment it fosters (by design, see the M.O. of Lenin, Vladimir), is social poison, and needs to be stopped.