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Shut Up and Die | The Roundtable Ep. 100

The American Mind

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Transgenderism and Desire Are Independent Agents

James Carville says he has watched his desphoria balloon since starting to transition. He argues that we are living in a 'mass psychosis' where desire and happiness are independent agents. The whole project of life is aligning that feeling with what is actually good, writes Carville. We should be pursuing virtue and becoming excellent at being human if it looks like the only way forward for us, he adds.

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