Monday, 8 December 2025

Post No. 3,349 - Why we’re here (politically) ... and activism & personal updates

I recently came across this excellent, albeit USA-focused, summary of the history of the western world since 1935 - which is the first such summary to push the cause of our current ultra-elite caused crisis back beyond the 1970s, that I know of (there may have been such articles, of course: it’s just that I haven’t come across them)

I would also add that the extremely unChristian, hate-filled and hate-fuelled neochristian extremists became engaged after Equal Marriage was legalised - as it should be.  

“Understanding the Moment We’re In | Explainer”   by noted historian Heather Cox Richardson   15m:51s   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgOYW8_Jow   This goes back to changes under Franklin D Roosevelt in 1935, and outlines the opposition from the ultra-wealthy that started then and accelerated under Reagan with racist, misogynistic, and homophobic/transphobic perversions of elections and judicial power in the USA by a faction of the republican party   

 

 

I should also make it clear that, although I am not doing the news and PWR blog posts, I am still following the news (although less intensively), still doing psychic work, and still doing my activist work. 

As an example of the latter, below is one of my recent emails - written to try to motivate a government that is heading towards being an homage to mediocrity into realising its potential:  

 

Dear Member, 
 
Re: Science, autism, and gender identity 

I have been somewhat concerned of late that ministerial/government comments suggest that there is a limited awareness of the issue of masking for autistic people - of all ages, but particularly for children. There has been at least one media article on this (see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-03/research-autism-barriers-participation-sport-dance-kids-adults/106053656), and there are other articles on this topic as well - for instance, see https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mental-health-reimagined/202507/unmasking-masking-in-kidshttps://www.autismawareness.com.au/navigating-autism/autistic-masking-at-school, and https://www.autismawareness.com.au/navigating-autism/understanding-autistic-masking-and-camouflaging

Related to that is my concern that scientific evidence may be ignored or underplayed on medical issues - including autism. 

And that leads me to the reason I am writing this email, which is largely to draw your attention to an excellent "deep dive" by one of the better - in my opinion - YouTube autism channels into the notorious ABA, a deep dive which includes excellent commentary on evidence and science. 

The video is: 

  • “I’m Autistic and I Became an ABA Therapist”   https://youtu.be/8kL9ncWBfA8   1h:48m:47s   “I train as an ABA therapist to investigate the “gold standard” treatment for autistic kids – tracing its roots in aversive behaviourism and conversion therapy, unpacking the evidence behind 40‑hour programmes, and examining new 2025 research linking ABA to more mental‑health crises. At stake is not just whether ABA changes behaviour, but whether a system built to make autistic people pass as neurotypical can ever be compatible with neurodiversity and human rights.   This video is made from an autistic, neurodiversity‑affirming perspective. It’s critical of ABA as a system, but not of individual parents or low‑paid RBTs trying to help under pressure.”   Chapters include:   ABA’s Problematic Past;   “”Constructing a Person”;   Aversives, Conversion Therapy, and the Judge Rotenberg Center;   Language and Deficits;   Measurement;   The Consent Paradox;   5% Supervision;   ABA vs Occupational Therapy; whose evidence counts?;   Masking, Trauma and the Racism Argument;   Advice for Parents and Practitioners;   Everything we know that we don't yet know.      

As noted, it is a long video, but the chapter divisions make it easier to examine specific topics, or to spread the viewing out over some time - and I consider the video well worth taking the time to view. 

It is well worth viewing not only for autism, but also because of the anti-scientific push by some people to ignore the actual science regarding young trans, gender diverse and non-binary (TGDNB) people - which is a rot started by the notorious and discredited Cass "report" in the UK, which started a trend of cherry picking to ignore scientific evidence and expert testimony which supports TGDNB people, refusing to consult with TGDNB people (which is contrary to the principle of "nothing about us without us"), and ignoring the well proven fact that discrimination is what causes mental health problems amongst TGDNB people - and others who receive discrimination. 

Queensland is going down that path, and comments by the Health Minister have raised serious concerns that he may be either going down the same transphobic path, or pandering to transphobes who, in effect, want to wipe TGDNB people out of experience - see https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice and https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert-for-the-anti-trans-agenda-of-the-trump-administration-in-the-united-states, and note James Baldwin's comment: 

  • “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”

I and others including potential younger members of the ALP, know that the ALP is capable of standing up to the sort of regressive influences that are behind the backsliding against autists and TGDNB people - that was even remarked on in Amy Remeikis’ generally critical article “Power for its own sake, and to hell with courage – Labor has lost its way” (in The New Daily, 22nd November, 2025, https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2025/11/22/labor-power-courage-government), which included 

  • “... bravery from this modern Labor political party has been in last parliament’s industrial relations reform, where suddenly “bipartisan support” from its supposed ideological enemies was not necessary or required, and pushback from business and neo-liberals was faced head on”

We know the party is capable of courage, we know the values of the party - as developed by its members - reject transphobia and other forms of discrimination and are for inclusion and support, and we know how morally WRONG transphobia, anti-autism discrimination, and reactionary, regressive anti-scientific rubbish of the type espoused most strongly by the USA's ill and, frankly, evil leader are, and we are looking for the sort of modern political leadership that we voted for. 

Don't pander to the anti-scientific bigots! 

Please forward to those who you consider may need this. 

 

After sending that email I sent a further one about transphobic incompetence in the government's online health system, and I came across a disturbing example of NDIS incompetence described on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amiee-pember-50b021304_outrage-over-ndis-funding-test-performed-activity-7403084688308789248-Vd9a

The membership of the ALP wants progressive governance; many elected ALP MPs want progressive governance; and the voters who gave the ALP a landslide at the last national election want progressive governance. 

But instead we're getting an homage to mediocrity ... 

 

It’s not all bad, though: tomorrow my adopted home state’s (ALP) government will apologise to First Peoples for centuries of genocide, theft, dispossession and other abuses, and our Treaty goes into effect on Friday

 

 

My personal circumstances remain focused on family matters, but I am starting to resume posting on SubStack, including: 

“Working with nonphysical energy”   https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/working-with-nonphysical-energy   “... directly, rather than via Deities or other intermediaries”   

The words “Working with nonphysical energy ... directly, rather than via Deities or other intermediaries” appear on top of an image of a wooden pedestrian suspension bridge stretches from the foreground across the waterfalls and rapids of a mountain stream into a dense, autumnal coloured forest with a bare rock mountainside in the background


That series of posts is one I would like complete before I die. 

 

I also sent out a brief second edition of my Newsletter on that platform, and am working on a better third edition.  

 

 

As always, if you can afford it, your support or appreciation through the platforms below would be appreciated, and would help me to continue this work. 

 


Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking” 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

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