We've been doing family stuff this week, meaning the whole family got all-hands-on-deck to move some of the family to a new place.
This involved getting together with rarely seen in-laws, people who are not particularly political (though generally non-leftist.) Sometimes it's hard for me to remember where most Americans who aren't politically engaged live. Mostly because our ravingly sane cohort here has seen the stuff headed down the pipe from so long ago, that we're sort of jaded by it now. Take the Lesbian Space Witches of the Star Wars Acolyte (Please. You might be the only one). I'm not a Star Wars fan (Sorry. I'm not much of visual medium fan and it just never did it for me, period. For a while there I wondered if Dan and I would make it. I was Heinlein, he was Star Wars. Anyway...) so this does not affect it with rage for the intricacies of the story and precisely everything they're violating. Instead I think of all the crazy Lesbians I knew in the seventies, (oh, please. I went to college in Europe. As a liberal arts major. In a college filled mostly with women. Of course I knew Lesbians. Most of them were professors and ten years older than I. My generation had decided we liked boys. But hey!) who piously waited the time they could reproduce by parthenogenesis and do away with men, who were "defective" by not being women. And then I laugh like an hyena. Because you have to have a heart of stone not to. And I think, "Well, of course, these people are now the financiers and senior producers and everything."
But it's sometimes refreshing to be with people that still find it strange and outre that the producer of Bridgertons really thinks eighteenth century England had a sort of apartheid system, with black aristocracy and white aristocracy. That she also believes a German queen was "black" and NO ONE EVER MENTIONED IT, and that she believes the Queen was black because she had a "Moorish" ancestor 500 years earlier. I mean, they don't particularly object to the series as a fantasy -- as I don't -- and alternate universe. They just find it strange that not only does the producer think this was real (all based on rumors of a "Moorish" ancestor -- more likely to be a redhead than black and FIVE HUNDRED YEARS BACK -- and a bad portrait of Queen Charlotte) but also that people who watch this series also believe this is true. (This is our cue to close public education and possibly forbid it. If we can't graduate people with a better idea of history, biology and ... humanity (who wouldn't gossip about a black queen in Regency England, among the most prolific diarists in history?) the schools are counterproductive.)
This was the same week I caught Jeff Goldstein (late of Protein Wisdom) sighing on Twittex about "must every hero be gay and in an interracial couple?" and I thought "you've noticed now?" Five years ago I stopped watching British Mysteries, which are one of my guilty pleasures, because, dear Lord, after a while it became impossible to ignore that every couple -- EVERY COUPLE -- was mixed race.
Look, I don't have anything against gay heroes. It would be really funny if I did. While I don't write legions of gay vampires (rolls eyes) as a friend accused me of doing, I did write A Few Good Men. And I'm writing No Man's Land. (In which the gay protagonist is possibly the least "abnormal" thing.) Both of those books have gay protagonists because it's needed for the book (more obviously for NML.) Which is one thing over "every couple we can we make gay" where it's not even remotely needed.
And some people -- mostly insane people, but then again I have a very low respect for American-born perception of race. It's not race. It's just insanity -- would think Dan and I are in a bi-racial relationship. We even sort of look it, since he's paler than pale, being a programmer, while I spend considerable portions of time outside bothering plants. So obviously I have nothing against people dating or marrying outside their race.
What I object to is -- outside the framework of this is obvious fiction -- using demographics to try to play with people's perception of the world.
I know why leftists do it. The people who tried to levitate the Denver Mint with the power of -- ah -- their minds, and who believe things like if we abolish the police there will be no more crime are not.... what is the term? sane? in contact with reality? capable of rational thought?
They are so overpowered by their fantasies, that they believe they can wish cast those fantasies onto the world.
You can see that with Biden's new EPA regulations, which follow the path of Europe meaning, we'll all be without electricity for long periods of time and have to burn every tree in sight not to freeze in winter. But that's not really what Biden (or whatever passes for Biden, probably a brain trust of ivy league graduates) thinks will happen. No. These people think they can wish-cast science into happening. (This is another reason to abolish all schooling in its current form, because, seriously, they think that science is something that happens by the power of their pure thoughts and good intentions. The schools have taught them nothing, not even, arguably, how to read.)
They really think that lesbians will look at Star Wars Space Witches, and go "Oh, so that's how one gets pregnant without a male" and then DO IT. And if you think I'm being silly, no. Not really. They really think that. For years now they've been telling us things like "the future is female" and this is what they're basing it on. Their strong belief that if they believe strongly enough, it will happen.
And that's the thing behind all heroes are gay and if possible in an interracial relationship. Because, you know? If they show it often enough, most people will become gay and get in interracial relationships. (Forget it, Jack, it's liberals.) There is this account on Twitter called "The Queer majority" that is like the craziest bits of libsoftictoc, but they really believe it, and it makes me quirk my brow and go "The what now? You what?" I mean if the majority engaged in non-reproductive sex only, the world population would be nosediving in a way no one could avoid seeing. (Yes, it's possible to define "queer" in such a way that everyone is but that is meaningless. I mean, now they're adding the ability to tan. No, really.)
And they think if they rewrite history, the past will change, or at least most people will believe in the new past -- because apparently they're going to engage in a written material burn on the scale of Fahrenheit 451 or something -- and then the future will be exactly as they scripted, with all couples being interracial and ushering in a new tan race (That's not how any of this works, and among Ursula LeGuin's stupid ideas that might be the dumbest. If everyone had the same skin tone, people would pick other things to be tribal about. Heck, if everyone looked exactly alike, you'd start signaling tribe by styling your hair. Seriously. Have leftists EVER met a human being?)
My objection to this stupid idea of storytelling, used as sort of word-spells to change reality is that it's stupid. It's cringe. Because it's impossible, sure. That's part of it. You can nudge people slightly in one direction, if it doesn't cost them too much, and the direction is something they were already heading towards.
The fact that for almost a century the left controlled all the mass communication ability in the world gave them the very weird idea that they could control reality. But in fact, it's just propaganda, which only works if it's absolutely pervasive, never lets up, and it's never disproven.
So, you know, you could convince people that Covid 19 was a plague on the scale of the Black Plague.... for a short time. As long as you kept them all locked down and unable to communicate with each other. Once people saw that there were no piles of bodies on street corners and that the people around them were just pretty much normal, the spell broke down and -- get this -- it's impossible to cast it again.
More importantly, the words and the fear mongering, and the insane propagandizing didn't change reality. It allowed them to steal an election, sure, but they know they stole it, we know they stole it, and every day it becomes more obvious they stole it. It's not a fiction they can maintain.
In reality, all their devout belief and spell casting does nothing but create very cringe art. Which is okay, as it might speed the emergence of new pathways for creativity and distribution of media.
When even people who aren't as sensitive to cringe as we are have become aware of it, it's over. The propaganda will never work again.
And the only response we can make to their stompy attempts to make us believe is to laugh like an hyena.
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