Him becomes Them
March 28, 2021
By NZB3
Christchurch bred. A son of a city whose forefathers were so damned English that England wasn’t English enough for them so they made a new one and colonised it. Catholic. Elite blazered Boys school. Bullied. Traumatised by the Massacre. A teen. With a birthright like this what are you to do? What are you to become?
There’s an historical inertia, especially in Christchurch, especially with families with this sort of background, to be identitarian. Trouble is, all the things to be identitarian about have been confiscated. You can’t be proud to be elite or masculine or white or Catholic. You really don’t want to be like that shooter guy. So where do you go with this pent-up identitarian energy? A drive to be special, a leader, but how to embody that energy?
If a drive can’t be put into a legitimate focus then it will go into an illegitimate one. If Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington didn’t have a positive way to answer their calling I expect they’d have ended up as ‘Thems’ too. New Zealand has made it loud and clear that it doesn’t want strong masculine white elite men and the youth are listening and adapting accordingly.
In generations before, say, the 1910s, the English gentleman, “..would have known how to catch fish, trap hare and rabbit, kill a chicken, mend a broken window, successfully fight a violent drunkard, organise a fuel and wood-finding expedition and, probably, how to pull one’s socks up and stave off despair. Because, he will have been trained at the best schools in the world to be an English gentleman. A man who can take control of situations while simultaneously having soul enough to understand what the point is of doing any of this. After being educated in these schools he would then be placed in a society that respected and had uses for such men…[now, that man is] just another man at the supermarket buying breakfast cereal as everyone else.”
“In his time, the 1960s, Withnail is a man utterly wasted (in both senses of the word.) If you could use your imagination you can picture the man he could have been. He could have been an exemplary member of society. He has incredible drive, passion, intelligence and talent. But in the age he finds himself in these things can only work to destroy him and the zest for life that he should have is mutated into a resentment against everything.” – Withnail And I Viewed From the Right, Millennial Woes (2017)
Logan Rielly
Who are we to tell Logan Rielly, this late in his development, that he made the wrong choice? That he should have been a white Christchurch Catholic K-selected alpha? In this world? And been pelted with toxic shame and picketed by the girls from their high school? It’s existentially frighting, possibly suicide-inducing. Instead, ‘he’ became a ‘them’.
“The question of what it means to belong was brought into sharp relief in the aftermath of the March 15 terrorist attack at Al Noor mosque, just three kilometres from the street where a Christchurch teenager is now absentmindedly practicing a dance sequence.”
“They were bullied and felt they had to hide their identity, a feeling that continued until part-way through high school.”
“At the conservative boys’ school they attended, St Thomas of Canterbury College, they didn’t find themselves reflected anywhere.”- Michelle Duff,¹ The non-binary kid who changed the way their school thought about gender; Stuff (March 2021)
So, he’s found a way to preserve his ego and have a life. Rather than depression or death. What other option did the world leave him but to be reactive this way? Oh, I know, there’s always the Brenton Tarrant path: A murder massacre. Forth option: Convert to Islam. Door number 5 is the one Logan Rielly selected- adopt the pre-fabricated eccentricity identity solution of being a non-binary Them.
The world already has changed, he is being reactive. Might even fit into this world better than you do. At least, in the short term. And it’s all very well to say he’s not your problem because you don’t live in Christchurch. This is an issue with all our cities and all our young men and women. This is a symptom of being atomised, of having lost our Anglo Saxon culture. Of males, in particular, being under open attack.
“A mother at a Victorian school has opened up about her disgust after male students as young as 12 were directed to “stand up and apologise” to their female peers…they were made to stand up and apologise to the opposite gender on behalf of their own gender,” she said.” –Brauer College in Warrnambool makes boys apologise on behalf of their gender to female peers at school assembly, The Australian (March 2021)
“About 100 Christchurch Girls’ High School students leading a sexual harassment protest have been turned away by police and their principal en route to their target – Christchurch Boys’ High.” – Students protesting sexual harassment turned back from boys’ school by police, Stuff (March 2021)
If you had a son in a school being treated like this would you protect him? Well, if your children are at school the will be! Perhaps not so on-the-nose as in Christchurch and Victoria but that’s probably because they are special cases. Both Christchurch and Victoria are English Enlightenment Renaissance colonies, built by people proud of who they were. The tide has all but gone out on that ethic so now it’s natural that these places and their people would feel the most dislocated of all. But it’s in the rest of our country too; It’s happening across the wider culture and in our schools by a thousand cuts.
Logan Rielly’s dad evidently didn’t stick up for him but left him to develop his own ego-defense strategy. If he had parents who showed him healthy boundaries and how to set them then he’d not have been bullied in the first place and created a reactionary gender in the second place.
“…a bedroom wall peopled with 90s Hollywood A-listers Lindsay Lohan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Heath Ledger and Reece Witherspoon.” – Duff Stuff
Little wonder Rielly’s Solution has been extreme after an abortive attempt to use the above stars to guide his way. Lindsay Lohan, like Miley Cyrus, betrayed their young Millennial fans and their talent by spectacular public self-shaming breakdowns in 2007/8 which was the same time Heath Ledger killed himself. Reece Witherspoons marriage and career hit the wall that same year, leaving her fighting over custody of her children. At this same point, Leonardo DiCaprio went from being a youthful pin-up boy playing teen idols to a violent/sadistic criminal in Scorsese/Tarantino films. This house of star cards had already fallen down for young Rielly before he even started forming an attachment to them. What a shock to find out after the fact that your role models were already in ruins before you came to know and be infatuated by them. An existential blow that would rip any already atomised adolescent kid into sub-atomic particles.
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1 Michelle Duff also wrote contrived propaganda about another minority recently; Ref. 1830s: Maori Children are Stuffed; AHNZ
Image ref. Scene from Withnail And I (1987)
Ref. Withnail And I Viewed From the Right, Millennial Woes (2017); Odysee
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