IT'S THE KAREN THING
Watch For This Kind of Craziness. You Could Be Next
I have had some bazaar things happening around me lately. So much so, it started to scare me. It’s quite the phenom. Definitely a sign of the times we are living in. A completely new attitude that has crept into our society. And when it happens to you, you may not recognize it immediately. Because it’s happening for the first time ever.
Last week. Two kids, I call them that. They are both 22 years old — were fighting in my second apartment. I couldn’t hear them. I had no idea it happened. And, yes, it happened a couple of times. They were loud. They were wrong. My upstairs neighbor could hear them and my downstairs neighbor could hear them. So both of them called the police on different days. Slightly overkill. A knock on the door would have been sufficient. Mine or theirs. I know these people. I thought they were friends.
Today while waiting for a friend to show up, I texted her, “Did the Lyft driver kidnap you?” And she texted back that the sheriff was searching her room on the authority of the hotel for drugs. Because her neighbors at a Hilton Garden Inn complained she was vaping. That is against the law in California in a non-smoking room. I didn’t know that. She did but assumed she could get away with it. Not in today’s world you can’t. She offered to pay for the couple’s room. But the woman refused. And chaos ensued. Are you surprised this could happen? What seems to me to be an illegal search?
And finally, the same week, another friend found her work files stolen. Someone turned them in as his own. She spent two days while IT straightened it all out. The man wasn’t fired. He is friends with management. They went to school together. Originally she was accused of the theft. It left her quite shaken. Along with her faith in humanity.
The Karen Thing is described as entitled or racist behavior. Or someone demanding beyond the scope of what is normal. Self-righteous. It can also be called the Snitch Mentality.
It’s an epidemic. It’s an outcry of non-critical thinking. Society is losing its ability to use logic to judge the weight of an issue. I remember hearing this during the pandemic: Eighty percent of people are sheep. Ten percent think things through and try to reach the right conclusion. And only 10% are true critical thinkers — you know, people who can weigh the evidence and reach a sensible conclusion. We used to call this The Reasonable Man. All of jurisprudence is based on it. Our entire legal system. And that tells you what about the future of mankind? Interesting we call it that. Nothing about it is kind these days.
Watch your back. Be careful how you handle adversity. But most of all, recognize when a situation is getting out of control. Neighbors aren’t being neighborly. Keep to yourself. Document everything.
VOTE FOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.
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UPDATE: “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”—Professor Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler
“This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government’s post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, hyper-vigilant, technologically-wired age.” The Rutherford Institute