T-Ball Took Down a Nation

Michael Smith

The current iteration of woke is a predictable evolution of the "everybody gets a trophy" equity ethos that began back in the late 80's/early 90's at the T-Ball level, the purpose of which was to protect kids from disappointment and hurt feelings that they weren't mature enough to handle, most of which were encountered in games and other elective competitive situations.

Parents who could not accept that their kid wasn't going to be the next Aaron Judge, Williams sister wanted a way to avoid the social stigma of having their own future theoretical physicist on the team but the expansion of after school programs of every description served to expand all the things open to parents to find out how bad their little bundles of joy sucked at most, if not all, of them.

And that served to increase the desire to protect the kids from disappointment and themselves from embarrassment.

It then migrated from the sports fields and courts to the classroom where it was "unfair" when some kids did better than others and advanced from objective grades, to grading on a curve, to pass/fail grades, to not giving grades at all.

And from there it moved into the market and boardrooms where companies were graded on social scores rather than meeting performance objectives, ignoring that the sole purpose for a business is to make a profit.

It then crossed over into the entire the adult world in the form of wokeism, the attempt to shield everyone - except the unfavored class - from the same disappointments experienced on the T-Ball fields of yore.

Within the past couple of years, it has jumped from wokeism, which was generally about behaviors, mores, traditions, and history to a virulent form of racialism where certain classes must be protected from white society generated T-Ball embarrassments and lack of performance that are solely due to the color of their skin. The most important thing about you was your race.

Now we are in the final stages. Racialism lost its spot on the tip of the grievance pyramid to been sexual identarianism, an ideology that rejects physical reality and presupposes you can change the unchangeable. Now people can choose to "identify” as pretty much anything other than the biological sexual binary, male or female.

All it has done is to create generations of people who can’t handle life because the lessons of competition have been denied them. They actually believe having to compete with their ideas against the ideas of others is not how things work. They seek to punish anyone who doesn’t agree with them because they can’t comprehend that they might not be the smartest or the best in the room.

T-Ball.

The main difference between now and the 80’s is that today's T-Ball games have real consequences.

Tim adds:

An excellent point.Recently I said as much about the "self-esteem" movement and how it was the beginning of the end for the youths of this country and I knew it at the time. T ball was all about self-esteem and ignored the very purpose of sports, which is to teach kids to accept defeat with grace and strive to succeed against the odds. Learn that and you learn how to succeed at life.

But the Progressives didn't like that and they created this notion of "self-esteem" where nothing could be allowed inside to hurt a child's tender sensibilities.

The result is a nation of spoiled brats who cannot conceive of anything upsetting their godhead. And when that happens there is a conscious rejection of reality for something more pleasing to the individual.

This whole transgender movement can be traced back to it. Time was a boy who dressed in women's clothing was censored by society and had to knock it off. Now we call them brave and act as though indulging a mental disorder is some sort of badge of honor.

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