Kirk Ideology is more than the latest Gen Z trend. It’s a mental illness.
Picture this. You kiss your precious son Timmy goodbye as he sprints into his first day of second grade. A few hours later, he emerges as an entirely different child. He claims he is “Kirk trapped in a boy’s body” and that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 needs to be abolished. You’re aghast at how quickly Timmy was Kirkified and you find yourself begging him to describe his entire day from the beginning. He starts spinning tales of a new teacher who represents “the school board’s new direction”. As if recounting a ghost story, he explains the way she pulls aside children individually to whisper Ivory Tower ideology in their ears and how she dresses in a white tee with the word “Freedom” printed across it in stark black. Your head spins as you glance towards your phone book, realizing you have no idea who you could possibly call. Your friends? The police? Your pastor?
Kirkism, you would soon find out, is not an innovation of the last few years, but it doesn’t have precedent in our history either. It was invented in 2012 by its namesake Charlie Kirk, an ex-Boy Scout and college dropout with delusions of grandeur and a penchant for amassing cash. Kirk spent his days parading his body in front of impressionable college students. He posted beside busy campus pathways, content to let passersby gawk. However, his more nefarious intentions manifested in his challenge to lure students behind his table and talk with them one-on-one. Filming the footage for God knows what purpose, he spouted his various obsessions into their faces, ranting about sexual sins, China viruses, historical revisionism, and the urban activities of virile Black men. To be clear, Kirk Ideology is not a consistent belief system, but rather a rebellious performance of moral relativity and provocation.
“You just created a million Charlie Kirks,” writes one X user in a startling post back in September. Similar sentiments can be found across the Dark Web now, sending youth spiraling into “Kirkification”: a trend which is costing the sanity of the kids who are glued to their phone screens. The context behind these posts is as dark as it is absurd. My research uncovered that several months ago, Kirk quietly passed away in a college accident. His obsessive acolytes soon received word of their leader’s death and, without skipping a beat, began posting images and edits of Kirk in any and all cultural contexts. These rapidly spreading images, designated as “memes”, have already been condemned by the scientific community as a mass psychogenic event, its only historical references being the Salem witch trials, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, and Jesus Christ resurrection visions. “Everything’s Charlie Kirk,” one Republican said last Sunday despite the cult leader’s death. “Everybody Charlie Kirk, that’s all you hear about.”
The bottom line is clear. These days, common sense is no longer common, and your kids are at risk. Unless you shield him from the “Freedom” groomers, Timmy may no longer be Timmy. However, this is not the time to give in to despair. Patriots have always lived their lives according to simple facts attested across time: men are men, women are women, and Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a youth event in Orem, Utah. Kirk is not coming back, and we will continue to live by these self-evident truths—for God, for family, for America. As a society, we should let sleeping dogs lie and leave Charlie Kirk where he belongs: in an unmarked grave.