I’m just putting this here because I want to brag about it somewhere and don’t want to break my 18 month social media abstinence streak and I’m hoping you won’t mind too much…
My eldest is 22 and officially lives in a house share a couple of miles away - he still has a room here and occasionally lets himself in at night and spends the next morning hanging out with me - as happened today.
His (arts based) aspirational career path is absolutely saturated with trans ideology and intersectionalism but most of his friends are from a decade long hobby and are a mix of uni grads and recently qualified tradies, so he’s not completely immersed in group think.
I’ve done my best to teach all my kids critical thinking and resisting cancel culture but growing up in a world influenced by algorithms must be really difficult and it’s hard to measure my success or failure.
Anyway, earlier today there was a knock at the door. I made him answer, assuming it was a delivery. It wasn’t, it was a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I have a standard ‘Thanks but no thanks and-quickly-shut-door’ policy for all cold callers, but eldest loves to debate and when I realised what was happening, I decided to let him make the most of the free-of-fear-of-cancellation context and (politely!) exercise his brain.
Dear Reader, I didn’t listen to the whole thing (he was on the doorstep for at least 15 minutes) but a couple of snippets I did hear were,
‘But free will is already curtailed by material reality… If it wasn’t, men could become women and I would be able to fly’
and
‘The only entity I need to thank for my existence is my mother’
😆