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Prof Triggernometry
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The ongoing transformation of California’s municipalities, particularly the sprawling, sun-baked expanse of Los Angeles, offers a premier spectacle of what may be termed "Chick Think," a governance model rooted in therapeutic sentimentality, administrative coddling, and the unshakeable delusion that the grim realities of human nature can be legislated away by group hugs and municipal decrees. Where once tough-minded realists wrestled with the unyielding mathematics of budgets and public order, there now presides an ascendant sorority of progressive overseers, dedicated to transforming the machinery of state into a perpetual empathy machine. This civic philosophy replaces the harsh, necessary friction of governance with a soft-headed, maternal utopianism.
The primary tenets include:
The Primacy of Feelings over Facts: Policy is no longer measured by its material efficacy, but by its emotional resonance. A program is deemed a triumph if it sounds compassionate, regardless of whether it bankrupts the treasury or exacerbates the problem.
The Substitution of Discipline with Dialogue: The classic tools of civilization, namely, the rule of law and the enforcement of order, are discarded as unrefined. In their place, the populace is treated to endless committees, healing circles, and linguistic re-engineering.
The Cult of Universal Victimhood: In this administrative worldview, the concept of personal accountability is thoroughly liquidated. The criminal, the vagrant, and the civic saboteur are recast as helpless patients, while the tax-paying citizen is reduced to an unfeeling financier of their rehabilitation.
Nowhere is this ideological comedy more vividly staged than in Los Angeles, a city currently drowning in the consequences of its own high-minded benevolence. Under the stewardship of this municipal sorority, the city’s sidewalks have been converted into vast, chaotic encampments, functioning as open-air sanitariums and bazaars of misery. To the practitioner of Chick Think, clearing these hazards is viewed as an act of intolerable cruelty; thus, the squalor is permitted to fester under the guise of compassion. The police power of the state is systematically defanged, replaced by legions of highly paid "interveners" armed with clipboards and sociology degrees, who approach the feral realities of urban decay with the gentle scolding of a suburban schoolmistress.
The result is a sublime irony: in their frantic rush to shield the unfortunate from the cold winds of reality, these governing matrons have succeeded only in making the city unlivable for the very people who build, fund, and populate it. The treasury is bled dry to subsidize chaos, the merchant is plundered with impunity, and the ordinary citizen is left to navigate a landscape where common sense has been outlawed as a hate crime. It is a triumph of pure, unadulterated sentimentality over civilization, a spectacle so thoroughly absurd that one can only watch in grim amusement as the golden state slowly suffocates under the weight of its own tender mercies.
The primary tenets include:
The Primacy of Feelings over Facts: Policy is no longer measured by its material efficacy, but by its emotional resonance. A program is deemed a triumph if it sounds compassionate, regardless of whether it bankrupts the treasury or exacerbates the problem.
The Substitution of Discipline with Dialogue: The classic tools of civilization, namely, the rule of law and the enforcement of order, are discarded as unrefined. In their place, the populace is treated to endless committees, healing circles, and linguistic re-engineering.
The Cult of Universal Victimhood: In this administrative worldview, the concept of personal accountability is thoroughly liquidated. The criminal, the vagrant, and the civic saboteur are recast as helpless patients, while the tax-paying citizen is reduced to an unfeeling financier of their rehabilitation.
Nowhere is this ideological comedy more vividly staged than in Los Angeles, a city currently drowning in the consequences of its own high-minded benevolence. Under the stewardship of this municipal sorority, the city’s sidewalks have been converted into vast, chaotic encampments, functioning as open-air sanitariums and bazaars of misery. To the practitioner of Chick Think, clearing these hazards is viewed as an act of intolerable cruelty; thus, the squalor is permitted to fester under the guise of compassion. The police power of the state is systematically defanged, replaced by legions of highly paid "interveners" armed with clipboards and sociology degrees, who approach the feral realities of urban decay with the gentle scolding of a suburban schoolmistress.
The result is a sublime irony: in their frantic rush to shield the unfortunate from the cold winds of reality, these governing matrons have succeeded only in making the city unlivable for the very people who build, fund, and populate it. The treasury is bled dry to subsidize chaos, the merchant is plundered with impunity, and the ordinary citizen is left to navigate a landscape where common sense has been outlawed as a hate crime. It is a triumph of pure, unadulterated sentimentality over civilization, a spectacle so thoroughly absurd that one can only watch in grim amusement as the golden state slowly suffocates under the weight of its own tender mercies.
