Dr Judith

 "A regularized and constrained repetition of norms is not performed by a subject; this repetition is what enables a subject and constitutes the temporal conditions for that subject." - Judith Butler.

So a Self is not something you have or something you are. What you're supposed to do is follow the cue cards. You don't even really exist, so why should you matter? They say "know thy place, peasant."

As the doctrine goes, "There are those who fight, and those who pray... And then there's you, whose job is to move that plow and not your mouth. Unless we tell you to, then you say what we write down."

Why are the most feudal interactions framed as "liberating"?

No no no. I come first. It is I who feel, sense, think, and speak. Whether my self is begged or borrowed, it is at least mine. I'll say what you tell me to if you insist, but that won't make me agree to it. I am a subject who performs things. But you can't make me love my role.

Because I have other ways to make a living, because I don't depend on the approval of my sponsors or the approbation of my peers, because I have no need for tenure nor does anyone care whether I publish, I speak my own mind when I can maybe get away with it it. And if what I say or how I say it pleases no one, not even you, that's your problem.

I am a fool. But Judith Butler has sold out. Follow her published writings through the last thirty-some years. Compare them to who she was working for, or was trying to work for. Follow the doctrinal trends of "progressivism" along the same period. Do you see a pattern? If so consider the Benjamins.

This is the same self I embodied literally fifty years ago. Of course some things have changed, but I can show how and why. And you can see that it's got very little to do with making money, just that I'd rather not get locked up again. By the System that Judith Butler supports because she gets paid by those people.

Judith Butler could probably find a way to get me locked up. Everybody in her position knows somebody who can do certain jobs, or have them done. That's what power in society is about, that's why an incipient public pundit gets a PhD. Power ion society means getting people to do what you want. It's tautological. Even I can figure that out.

So her yadda yadda babbling feathers her nest.

Not me. I run the risks, I speak my mind. My own mind. I, the subject doing the performing.

To be generous, I'm wrong. Perhaps Dr Judith Butler is not meretricious but only confused.

I might be wrong. Or confused. But I gain nothing by it.

Now step out of my sunshine. It's still only March.