Contemplating the state of things boggles my mind. I can’t speak to other countries, but in America, the land of the free, the home of the crazed, er, I mean brave, in the land of opportunity, you can be anything you want to be. If you are male, you can transform to female or vice versa. Just ask Caitlyn or Chaz. If you are white, you can go black without transforming anything, except your skin tone and hair texture. Ask Rachael. And if the King of Pop were alive, you could ask him about making an ethnic transformation from black to white. Plainly stated, with courage and enough money, you can have it your way. And I’m not talking about a burger.
Rational dictates that just because you consider yourself to be something doesn’t make it so. Perhaps in Fantasyland. But in the real world no matter how you try to color it, reconstruct it, snip it, implant it, legislate it or rename it – it is what it is. Remove the thorns, trim the stem, and pick the petals off, a rose will still be a rose. Calling a dog a cat doesn’t make it a feline any more than calling a tomato stuffed into a cucumber stuffed inside a banana skin makes it a new fruit. Or does it?
Political Correctness or fear of reprisal prevents numerous people from publicly expressing their feelings about controversial issues, especially if their opinion goes against the grain of what some call “the new norm.” But there are some brave hearts who are not afraid to speak out.
A recent Washington Post article, reported that former Education Secretary William J. Bennett said, “People feel like they’re under siege and that the terms of the debate are now you either applaud it or you’re a bigot. It’s like American culture is being dragged kicking and screaming not only toward acceptance but approval.”
Point made. Some people are bold enough — or foolhearted (depending on your perspective) — to say what other’s won’t, even though we realize that putting ourself “out there” makes us a target of criticism or even repercussion.
I recently heard someone say that we have become hostages of PC. That’s sad, but true. To demonstrate their liberalism, lawmakers and the media, especially television programmers, are force feeding us a diet of in-your-face-anything-and-everything-goes, with a mandate to just eat it and shut up.
Numerous people — from the ordinary to the social elite – are more willing to condemn God than to admit that they disagree with the status quo. Controversial things like same sex marriage, gender nonconformity, reassignment surgery, surrogacy – and a lot of other things previously thought to be — Dare I say it? – abnormal, are now acceptable. It’s the new norm.
We live in a society that encourages lying and denying. And while it seems that group-think is widespread, thank God some of us still think for our self.
Conformists should understand that because freethinkers might disagree with what you believe, our disagreement should not be misinterpreted as hate.
Believe what you want to believe. But as I respect you, respect me. Can’t we disagree about lifestyles or whatever, without being disagreeable? We each have our own moral standards, and we certainly don’t all agree on what is right and what is wrong. The issue of you doing what you do and I doing what I do, only becomes a problem when one of us insists that the other must conform. As long as you are not a sociopathic menace to society, I don’t care how you live your life. Just don’t infringe on my right to be me by insisting that I have to think the way you think.
The world used to be so simple. Everything was black or white. Male or Female. Right or wrong. Now, it is a convoluted mess. The lines are not blurred; they have all been erased.