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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Lauren Isringhausen Writes
A young American woman, mother to her own daughter, posted this on FaceBook. It's dripping with rage and, if you read it, you also might feel her rage.
If I were her I'd be "so done with sex". Come to think of it, it's a wonder why people in general aren't "so done with" sex ...and politics, for that matter.
(Keep in mind, now, this viewpoint is coming from one who can best be described as a modern-day Hobbit)
Hi, Tal. I recently read that there has been a fairly noticeable decline in sexual activity among young people in their 20s and 30s. In some countries, such as Japan, it has become a serious problem.
With the state of this world and even basic democracy in peril, I suspect procreation is less popular than it was even a decade ago.
It's just that everything in the modern world and in modern life is just so unnecessarily complicated even doing the simplest of things seem to require more steps, procedures, preparation, and license/permits than would be typically required for performing brain surgery.
At some point you’d think the political alliance that market libertarians have forged with the theocons has got to break. Wait a minute. I forgot that, in America more than anywhere else, the average voter only cares about or sees that one issue that gets their brains tied into a knot. Spiro Agnew understood it best.
I read a discouraging item today predicting that the radical right has a long way to go. The report claimed illiberal democracy is here to stay and the extreme right will only become ever more extreme right.
With all the Conservatives gaining in this country with American ideas, please don't think the same thing cannot happen here. When a woman is raped in this country Canada, they still have a heck of a fight on their hands as it is now. And, then there are those who think they have the right to take the narrative and make it something else if a female happens to win.
If I were her I'd be "so done with sex".
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, it's a wonder why people in general aren't "so done with" sex
...and politics, for that matter.
(Keep in mind, now, this viewpoint is coming from one who can best be described as a modern-day Hobbit)
ReplyDeleteHi, Tal. I recently read that there has been a fairly noticeable decline in sexual activity among young people in their 20s and 30s. In some countries, such as Japan, it has become a serious problem.
With the state of this world and even basic democracy in peril, I suspect procreation is less popular than it was even a decade ago.
It's just that everything in the modern world and in modern life is just so unnecessarily complicated even doing the simplest of things seem to require more steps, procedures, preparation, and license/permits than would be typically required for performing brain surgery.
ReplyDeleteAt some point you’d think the political alliance that market libertarians have forged with the theocons has got to break. Wait a minute. I forgot that, in America more than anywhere else, the average voter only cares about or sees that one issue that gets their brains tied into a knot. Spiro Agnew understood it best.
ReplyDeleteIt's called group psychosis.
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ReplyDeleteI read a discouraging item today predicting that the radical right has a long way to go. The report claimed illiberal democracy is here to stay and the extreme right will only become ever more extreme right.
"I read a discouraging item today predicting that the radical right has a long way to go. "
ReplyDeleteAnd the chances for impeachment (or the 2020 defeat) of the orange blimp?
With all the Conservatives gaining in this country with American ideas, please don't think the same thing cannot happen here. When a woman is raped in this country Canada, they still have a heck of a fight on their hands as it is now. And, then there are those who think they have the right to take the narrative and make it something else if a female happens to win.
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