Nice to meet you!

I’m a wife, daughter, and soon to be mother (expecting a girl in November of 2024!). I’m also an independent thinker with a developed philosophy of morality and internal order. My grandparents had a profound influence on me. My friend read my first book and texted, “You’re a truth-teller. That’s what you are.”

Resist + Defend + Disrupt

The purpose of my work is to resist intellectual homogeny, defend free speech, and disrupt echo chambers. Writing in Hollywood is so incredibly bad right now. Let’s make it less bad.

The Mental Health Crisis

My break-away point occured when, out of desperation, I asked the question: “Why is everyone I know constantly on the brink of psychological collapse? Society-wide, 42% of people my age are suffering from a mental health condition, so the fact that all of my friends and family are sick in our heads is not a me-problem. No one is helping us. If mental health professionals could have helped us, then they would have helped by now.”

The rates of mental health problems in the United States preclude the idea that the so-called experts know how to solve this. Public health professionals and leaders simply do not have control of mental health crisis. They’re impotent.

I decided that I wouldn’t wait around for them to fix this.

My Frame for Free Speech in the 2020s

Take these seven points and synthesize them as you will.

In the 2020s, why are so many people constantly on the brink of psychological collapse? The rates of mental health problems in the United States preclude the idea that the experts know how to solve this. Literally everyone I know, save for one grandma and my husband, is suffering from head sickness without reprieve. If experts could help, they would have helped by now, right? There’s a systemic problem with therapy and mental health that goes beyond the solutions.

Before the 1900s, intelligence was not necessarily better than any other positive attribute like being strong, upstanding, or friendly. For example, in Medieval times, your ability to do quick mental math did not help you catch a fish faster than Drooling Degbert next door. However, since the creation of the atomic bomb, intelligence has become the preeminent value of powerful people. Since World War 2, American business and government have prioritized, funded, and bolstered an ever-growing bureaucracy of universities, R & D centers, exclusionary professional organizations like the AMA, regulatory bodies, quasi-regulatory bodies, policy institutes, and consultants. We have spent the last century raising, training, prioritizing, and revering experts. We all have been taught that, unless you are equally credentialed, you cannot argue with an expert. And yet, experts are obviously giving really bad advice.

In 1941, on the sidelines of mainstream intellectual discourse, a man named James Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution. He argued that instead of capitalism, socialism, or any other conventional category of social ideology, America had experienced a revolution of middle managers. Managers are not the owners of capital, but also they are not unified with the working class. Managers can get promoted, but they still are beholden to their paycheck. They are part of a system that allows them upward mobility while always keeping them in the same station.

The lowest class of France had harbored resentment forever before the French Revolution. The spark of the revolt lit when the military became mutinous, disenfranchised intellectuals banded together, and people with acumen and enough money to be influential but still shunned by the aristocracy joined the fight.

I went to a university with a very good free speech policy, but even if the school technically didn’t take action against political provocation, culturally we did not experience free speech because the social and academic price you paid squashed the policy. I started college the year Donald Trump got elected, so I witnessed the development of group psychosis. Like, en masse I watched everyone feed off each other’s anxiety and rage for four years. They said, “speech is violence.” They meant that vocalizing wrong ideas can break down what they’ve spent years building up; but I say speech is not violence.

Rome flourished as a republic when it was expanding. Building roads, collecting taxes, and consolidating power meant establishing a developed bureaucracy. When Rome hit Persia, it could not expand anymore and the bureaucracy became the enemy of the people. Two businessmen named the Gracchi Brothers, who were wealthy but not “in” with the other aristocrats, redistributed farmland to the poorest people, among other initiatives, and earned their loyalty. The poor of Rome adored the Gracchi brothers. The other rich people of Rome kept asking, “why do these low-class people love those sleazy businessmen?” It was because the Gracchi Brothers and the Roman working class formed an alliance against the bureaucratic middle. Well…America has been expanding for the history of its Republic: expanding Westward, establishing control through South America, and protecting globalist trade routes with our navy. Now, there’s nowhere to expand. If only there was a contemporary example of a businessman, who is wealthy but not “in” with the other aristocrats, who has formed an alliance with the poorest of American society……. If Trump was America’s Gracchi Brothers, that would make America’s Julius Caesar born around 2054. To learn more, read The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt

I intend to choose bravery.