It’s been popular for years now for people to say “the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result”. This is nonsense, of course. That behavior is a symptom of insanity, not the definition. To repeat an action, expecting a different reaction suggests that one is unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. That is the definition of insanity.
Remember reality?
I do.
Reality is when you borrow more money than you are ever going to be able to payback, bankruptcy follows.
$20,000,000,000,000.00 in debt and counting.
Back in the nineties, every unpopular policy put forth by the Clinton administration was done for the sake of ‘the children’. “For the Children” was their mantra. Whether they were trying to nationalize health care or ban public smoking, it was all for the children.
You know what they wouldn’t do for the children? Protect them from sexual predators. Planned Parenthood was willing to perform abortions for the minor (that would be a child) girls who came to them with unwanted pregnancies but they wouldn’t do a thing about finding and prosecuting the men who knocked them up.
Oh sure, all the teens who found themselves pregnant got that way through sex with their equally under aged boyfriends. It was true love, right? If you believe that, you just might be insane.
Back in the nineties, there were lots of news stories lamenting the lack of affordable housing. I have this irritating habit of remembering things like that. Yes, there wasn’t enough cheap housing for everyone to live in, not everyone could afford a mortgage so the political fix for this universal problem was to make money cheap enough for everyone to borrow. Make mortgages as easy to get as scratch off tickets. Super inflate the housing market so that all inventory was priced through the roof, those who already had houses found themselves sitting on imaginary mountains of equity and folks with no track record of credit could live the dream of home ownership.
The bankers, who are inevitably better at this stuff than politicians, found ways to use the new laws to get richer than ever…
Until 2008 when reality asserted itself, nearly taking the global economy with it.
Insanity is dangerous.
If you believe you can fly like a bird, you’re going to get hurt.
If you believe grizzly bears are your friends, you’re going to be eaten.
Individual insanity is a sad but treatable state. Societal insanity is catastrophic.
Less than a year after the Supreme Court of the United States declared that it is unconstitutional to define marriage, we are being told that male and female are myths and it is bigotry and hateful to say otherwise.
It’s hate speech to point out the biological fact of how children are produced and that marriage exists to protect that situation.
It’s hate speech to point out the biological reality that XX = female and XY= male (with very rare medical exceptions).
If Bruce Jenner wants to undergo the necessary surgery to mimic superficial female biology and live as Caitlin, that’s his choice. He’s a grown man and can live however he wants. I don’t think the laws of the land need to be changed to accommodate his cosmetics.
I know there are reasons why a person in a dress might hesitate to use the men’s room. That’s no reason to deny every female in America the right to privacy and the security of undressing without the company of males.
Biology is not trumped by personal preference, no matter how much you may wish it.
And ‘consensus’ (an odd word to use when we’re talking about fringe ideas) cannot make insanity trump reality.
Eight years after the bubble burst, our economy is still suffering the reverberations of the collapse of the housing market. And all we did there was delude ourselves financially.
Now the powers that be insist that male=female=non-gender specific=whatever.
We got bitch slapped when we took on the laws of economics and now we're tilting at the hard science of biology as though it were a windmill.
I don’t know what cliff this ideological fantasy train is going to take us over but I’m pretty sure that if we insist on riding it to its conclusion, we won’t survive.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not blaming future societal collapse on individuals who are outside the mainstream. I’m blaming it on activists and politicians who insist that reality doesn’t exist and therefor ‘outside the mainstream’ is a hateful illusion that must be criminalized.
I believe in the freedom to fly your freak flag.
I also believe in the freedom to acknowledge that your flag is freaky.
There were several sayings that my generation was raised on that are so politically incorrect today that to utter them would be called a micro aggression or even hate speech and get you expelled from school.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
“Boys will be boys.”
“If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?”
These days if you’re not willing to jump off that ideological bridge, you will be thrown.
And no social safety net will protect us from a rocky landing.
Reality always trumps insanity but not always soon enough to save the sufferer.