Thanks for the courage it takes, today, to say what used to be pretty obvious to people- that weirdos should be called out, instead of be treated as heroes. Why would I be so "mean?" To discourage behavior that leads to truth being discarded as "bad." The culture wars rage because leftists want to take every opportunity to attack the values and institutions that reward positive behaviors, and replace them with mere existence trophies. I picture people pulling parts off of an intricate machine and claiming that we don't need them anymore, the machine will just keep running anyways. Until it doesn't, and then they we all suffer.
Yes. In the bad old days, if you had a sudden desire to, say, have homosexual sex with a goat with rabies, you'd be ashamed to even bring this up in public, and most of the time the desire would pass. Or if you did bring it up, you'd be ridiculed or quietly taken aside and talked to, and quickly learn that this was not acceptable behavior. Today, you go on a search engine and type "homosexual sex with goats with rabies" and it comes back and asks "what breed of goat?"
Appreciate you writing this fair, level-headed, straight-talking message, and agree with every point. Whatever the human mind is capable of imagining there are those who will break the boundary of imagination and enact behavior outside the cultural norm. As you said, before the internet it was stuff hidden in the shadows, where it belongs. People are intensely curious about the bizarre, weird, and salacious behavior of people who occupy the fringes...well, at least I am, because they are relatively rare, representing a tiny percentage of humanity and thankfully so. Allowing them out of the shadows and aggrandizing them with the spotlight of approval is to our detriment, further eroding our culture, norms and traditions.
Before political correctness and cancel culture gripped our society, when these oddities came out of the dark, we at least had the option to shame or at the very least castigate them for infringing on the public decency most normal people desire.
Unfettered by moral restraint, and in the furtherance of their objective to make us the subjects of communism, the far left has sought to impose and highlight every degrading aspect of human psychology upon our culture, and they've succeeded, because far too many normal, sane people have let them. We have been bullied, abused and shunned for voicing our disapproval, but unless we throw off the fear of that, we can expect our culture to become a circus sideshow, if it isn't already.
We live in an age when people call good evil and call evil good. It's now unacceptable to make fun of someone for being a homosexual or a transsexual or fat or an alcoholic or etc. But it's completely acceptable to make fun of someone for being a Christian or a conservative or for simply being a man. Indeed you'll be praised for your courage in doing so.
Thanks for the courage it takes, today, to say what used to be pretty obvious to people- that weirdos should be called out, instead of be treated as heroes. Why would I be so "mean?" To discourage behavior that leads to truth being discarded as "bad." The culture wars rage because leftists want to take every opportunity to attack the values and institutions that reward positive behaviors, and replace them with mere existence trophies. I picture people pulling parts off of an intricate machine and claiming that we don't need them anymore, the machine will just keep running anyways. Until it doesn't, and then they we all suffer.
Yes. In the bad old days, if you had a sudden desire to, say, have homosexual sex with a goat with rabies, you'd be ashamed to even bring this up in public, and most of the time the desire would pass. Or if you did bring it up, you'd be ridiculed or quietly taken aside and talked to, and quickly learn that this was not acceptable behavior. Today, you go on a search engine and type "homosexual sex with goats with rabies" and it comes back and asks "what breed of goat?"
Appreciate you writing this fair, level-headed, straight-talking message, and agree with every point. Whatever the human mind is capable of imagining there are those who will break the boundary of imagination and enact behavior outside the cultural norm. As you said, before the internet it was stuff hidden in the shadows, where it belongs. People are intensely curious about the bizarre, weird, and salacious behavior of people who occupy the fringes...well, at least I am, because they are relatively rare, representing a tiny percentage of humanity and thankfully so. Allowing them out of the shadows and aggrandizing them with the spotlight of approval is to our detriment, further eroding our culture, norms and traditions.
Before political correctness and cancel culture gripped our society, when these oddities came out of the dark, we at least had the option to shame or at the very least castigate them for infringing on the public decency most normal people desire.
Unfettered by moral restraint, and in the furtherance of their objective to make us the subjects of communism, the far left has sought to impose and highlight every degrading aspect of human psychology upon our culture, and they've succeeded, because far too many normal, sane people have let them. We have been bullied, abused and shunned for voicing our disapproval, but unless we throw off the fear of that, we can expect our culture to become a circus sideshow, if it isn't already.
We live in an age when people call good evil and call evil good. It's now unacceptable to make fun of someone for being a homosexual or a transsexual or fat or an alcoholic or etc. But it's completely acceptable to make fun of someone for being a Christian or a conservative or for simply being a man. Indeed you'll be praised for your courage in doing so.