What I'm getting at this point is that anybody can identify as some kind of LGBTQ++++++ group if they want to. If you're a big fan of parades, say. And that's just super, since it means that maybe we can find something more interesting to talk about.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
We live in a world in which it has become normal for scientific journals to refer to children being ‘born in the wrong body’, a world in which an American university in 2023 defined a lesbian as ‘a non-man attracted to non-men’. The term ‘non-man’ has an unmistakeable Dickian ring to it, while the idea that people might surgically change their body so as to align it with their ethereal, mystical ‘inner essence’ is also the very stuff of his stories – tales that abound with gnostics and gurus providing guidance for paranoid and rudderless people eager to divine the ‘hidden’ reality and true meaning to life.
As far as a plethora of spectra is concerned your post reminded me of a recent spiked article by Patrick West about how PKD's fiction becomes our reality with every passing day. (an excerpt)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/15/philip-k-dicks-nightmares-are-becoming-our-reality/
It's all part of the ÜberLords plan to separate us into the smallest possible units of personal identity so we never can agree with one another about any serious subject.
If a lesbian is a non-man attracted to non-men, then what is a man? Who isn't a man? Who decides? Language is a great tool, but it can't actually reshape reality. Those with the most faith that it can do so wind up using it in a way that doesn't even create a coherent picture of raelity.
Anyway, nature, as red in tooth and claw as it is, as cruel as it can be, provides an anecdote. Nature presents us with facts, with solid things, something we can hold onto. And it is sometimes very beautiful as well.
Post a Comment