….Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby
It is murder
At some point in the last few decades, we seem to have lived through what Leonard Cohen predicted in the song quoted above, The Future: There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Western code.
One important aspect of that ancient western code was that children mattered more than any other demographic and we should sacrifice for them, not the other way around.
But consider three significant points of evidence in the argument this is no longer our code:
1. Abortion.
It’s always happened, true. From secret potions to beating of bellies to coat hangers and back street arrangements. In countries where it was made legal, the argument was that, if it no longer carried a criminal offence it might be made safe, early and rare. Those words were much used in the campaign during the original Roe vs Wade ruling.
Early and rare seem to have been dramatically forgotten in subsequent years, however.
Approximately 1 million abortions are performed annually in the USA of which, up to 18,000 are in the third trimester. Let’s hope they were at least safe.
2. Lockdown.
For two years, most countries went through several phases of closing the schools and shutting their children away in bedrooms to be educated remotely. School and community sport was banned, as was playing in the parks or even meeting with friends.
We all knew this would impact the most vulnerable kids, those without computers and parents at home, those with abusive family members, those with emotional and mental health issues. But we did it anyway.
Why? To save them from a disease we knew didn’t pose any material risk to the young. We sacrificed those at the start of their lives for the sake of those at the end of theirs.
3. Transgender.
We’ve accepted fiction as fact and figures of authority have presented this to children.
Quite reasonably, many children have now acted upon this lie and genuinely believe they are born in the wrong body and, worse, this unhappy situation can be ameliorated by a mixture of powerful drugs, life changing permanent surgery and the rest of society going along with this charade.
A study of 81,000 teenagers discovered 2,200 thought they were a different gender to the one everyone in the world would have said they were if asked about 10 years ago.
A not insignificant proportion of these confused kids are going to physically act upon these thoughts by taking drugs, slicing bits off themselves and acting out a cosplay fantasy of their new gender.
We can be bloody certain this will not improve their happiness at all.
Well done, everyone. Seriously, well done.
Bill’s Opinion
Golda Mier famously said of the Arabs;:
“We will only have peace with [them] when they love their children more than they hate us.”
I believe that quote is relevant today but it needs a slight modification to reflect our pathological self-loathing:
We will only have peace when we love our children more than we hate ourselves.