*Identity as Rape

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Even the Greeks would be shocked.  Sodomy, to them, was just a matter of doubled opportunity (or tripled, given that females also have anuses).  Rosy-cheeked boys, like rosy-fingered dawn, meant simply that a man would be rising. Heh. You know, for boy-sodomy.  Giddit? That's just who they were, but not as an identity -- so I should say it's what they were.  Sodomites.  Not that there's anything wrong with it.  

Every culture falls, after all -- name one that hasn't -- an old one, I mean, and I mean degenerates rather than falls.  I guess it started with Sodom -- the first culture to fall, if being stoned from the heavens counts as falling.  

It's summed up nicely, what I'm saying -- perfectly, in fact, by Aristophanes, in Thesmophoriazusae.  He had the coldest eye ever for observation.  And sure enough, here comes Agathon, dressed as a woman. 

Mnesilochus sees him coming and is bewildered.  "Are you a woman? Then where are your breasts?"

Agathon is never at a loss for words.  "Old man, old man, I hear the shafts of jealousy whistling by my ears, but they do not hit me. My dress is in harmony with my thoughts." A prim smirk, and a saucy flick of his skirts.  "What we don't possess by nature, we must acquire by imitation."  And he tosses his head.

Mnesilochus is an Athenian, so it's only the transvestitism he objects to.  Otherwise, quite inclusive: "When you are staging Satyrs, call me; I will do my best to help you from behind, if I can get my tool up."

Heh.  Giddit?  Well-dressed fools and well-dressed follies.  It's not that pigs wear lipstick -- at least never self-applied.  It's that women wear nose rings -- formerly, in our culture, reserved for pigs, and cattle.  Heraclitus was referring only to physicalities when he said everything is change.  Human nature never changes.  Hence the recurring need for degeneration.  That there might be the change of reformation.  

Pascal starts by dividing minds into mathematical and intuitive -- he rephrases this later by observing that the most powerful cause of error is the conflict between reason and the senses.  Nietzsche thought he'd come upon a clever idea by dividing cultures etc into Apollonian and Dionysian.  Hegel was glutinous with self-approbation when he synthesized thesis with antithesis.  Whether religion or philosophy or psychology, it's always some version of This, not That.  Even if This has to become These ... or HE has to become tHEy.

So it's not that they don't have a religion, the atheists, the Left, the wokesters.  It's that the god of their religion doesn't have intelligence.  The zero-sum game of random pantheism just barely manages to be a mushy dualism -- but certainly not Manichaean because that's patriarchal or intolerant or whatever.  It's a mere mechanical blending of something, whatever, into the virtual foam of an always theoretical but necessary brahmanistic sea of nothingness.  

That's the religion they think they follow, utterly relativistic, while ignoring how much they hate the other side.  

Relative, quantum, brahmanic, manichaean.  Whatever.

This is too religious a way of saying it, but their short-term eschatological prophecies keep on failing -- overpopulation and nuclear infernos and catastrophic climate meltdowns.  One of my problems with their religion is that they should pick one and only one apocalyptic horseperson, and keep the faith.  They switch horses like a circus acrobat.  Nobody respects an apostate.  

So the Greeks didn't have our particular (now increasingly peculiar and fading) outlook on a number of things.  But they would die free rather than be slaves -- the point of the Persian Wars.  Individuals mattered.  That's their contribution to the world.  Their science and art and philosophy follows from it.  

The opposite is marxism in its myriad protean forms.  Socialism has nothing at all to do with the Polis.  Athens and Rome each had tribes -- it's where the word Tribune comes from.  But their tribes were mere organizations, as a justification for clubhouses.  I simplify.  The fanatical and fantastical segregationism of marxism leapfrogs further back than Classical or Ancient history, far past Civilization itself -- practically to ape troops.  

So sodomy is individualistic.  Me and just you, consenting and there's nothing wrong with that.  Transvestitism is about me -- well, not me, but me and everyone else.  You all have to affirm me.  Not all sodomy is rape, but all wokism is rape.  You will be forced to obey my sexual will.  Identity fascism. 

I said I would not title this "Identity as Rape".  But I have to.

Like our Soviet Nazi Totalitarian past, and our islamist and wokist present, our future is a boot stomping on a human face, forever.  Nose-rings and tattoos notwithstanding -- these are just Party Cards with a low number.  Badges expire.  The Old Comrades were purged, because loyalty has nothing to do with it.  Nothing divides faster than the cells of a revolution.

They came for the Jews, then the Christians, then the deplorable ultra maga republican supremacists, then the wokesters.  Just because they could.  

But maybe I'm wrong.  I don't like it when people tell me what my motives are.  I will tell you.  My motive is to see things as they are.  Objectivity.  I can't really say why they do and will do what they do.  I have only history, experience, observation and common sense to guide me.  

My dog identifies as a cat.  My cat identifies as human.  Humans identify as whatever the eff they feel like.

Giddit?

J