June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month — the most important sacrament of the American secular religious calendar. During Pride Month, public schools across the nation teach small children the joys of alternative sexual practices and orientations; corporations plaster their stores in rainbow accoutrements of all sorts; and the federal government of the United States proclaims its fidelity to the LGBTQ+*&^% ideology.
The American public, for the most part, has historically taken Pride Month not for what it is but for what it sometimes purports to be: a call for tolerance of the marginalized. But that, of course, is not what Pride Month is or ever was. Pride Month is not a call for equality but a call for revolution. The Pride movement was always a call for a replacement of historic, tried and true cultural norms with new, untried and risky cultural norms.
Heteronormativity is one such tried and true norm: the correct belief that any durable society rests on the basis of male-female dyads producing children. Such a norm ought to be promoted. But Pride suggests the opposite: that heteronormativity is an authoritarian and discriminatory standard that places artificial limits on the full flowering of human sexuality. Explode the norm and maximize human happiness!
This, of course, was precisely the case made by the original exponents of the sexual revolution. Herbert Marcuse, author of “Eros and Civilization” (1955) called for a rewriting of all sexual norms in order to tear down the capitalist structure. He sought “a non-repressive civilization, based on a fundamentally different experience of being, a fundamentally different relation between man and nature, and fundamentally different existential relations.” Such a civilization could only be birthed by treating “the body in its entirety (as) an object of cathexis, a thing to be enjoyed — an instrument of pleasure.” Sex would be unmoored from marriage and parenthood; Marcuse argued, “the barriers against absolute gratification would become elements of human freedom… This sensuous rationality contains its own moral laws.”
By 1970, feminist Shulamith Firestone argued that sexual revolution would bring about “not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.” Happiness would now be found in a “reversion to an unobstructed pansexuality — Freud’s ‘polymorphous perversity’ — would probably supersede hetero/homo/bi-sexuality.”
We have now reached the dystopia sought by Marcuse and Firestone: a world in which all the elites in our society participate in the rewriting of durable societal norms in favor of unending sexual gratification. In order to maintain that dystopia, however, our societal elites require one more element: repression of the traditional norms. A fair fight might leave traditional Judeo-Christian norms in place; they’ve proved rather durable over time. Marcuse had a solution for just such a problem: repression. Promotion of the new morality would require quashing the old. “(L)iberation of the Damned of the Earth presupposes suppression not only of their old but also of their new masters,” Marcuse wrote.
And so the culture war rages. Because, after all, old norms don’t die easily. They must be killed in order to achieve “Pride” in the alternative. And that revolution requires the exercise of cultural, governmental and corporate power from sea to shining sea.
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Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is “The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Every time Gays mention PRIDE in the same context of their corrupted sexual practices which entails making love to parts of the human anatomy where defecation and human excrement are designed to pass out of and help cleanse the human body of waste, just certifies the insanity from which their ideology and distorted thoughts originate. If the general public could see them in the unhealthy unclean acts they engage in, they would be horrified at the uncleanliness alone, and demand that Obamacare be rescinded, refusing to pay for the cures of the self-destroying disabling of American human innocence, first mentally taxed in woke propaganda, then physically taxed to death in general public paid funds for healthcare which would be unnecessary if unindoctrinated from birth sane minds guided their WOKE warped life decisions. Let them do to each other what they will, of their own free will. Just do not force WE THE PEOPLE to pay the physical and psychiatric Heath care costs of those who chose to lead themselves away from the original human design that Providence created, now Woke warped, resulting in sick twisted minds and bodies, incapable of reproducing uncorrupted forms of the human race. Crazy and PROUD of it is not a social solution, just another WOKE delusion foisted upon an unsuspecting media who can be trusted about as far as you can run from them. Historically no society has lasted long which relied on homosexuality to replenish their strength.
And it always makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, to see their ‘pride festivals’, AIRED AS “Child friendly”, where dildos, porn paraphernalia etc, ARE ON FULL DISPLAY..
YET if we criticize it, WE ARE THE ONE Labeled perverts/bigots etc..
Glad I no longer have school-age children. If I did, I’d home school them.
Guaranteed I could teach them, in a few hours a week, more useful information than they’d learn in 2 weeks of public schools.
New, novel things like History, Geography, Science, Math, instead of CRT, gender changing, boys who think they’re girls, girls who think they’re boys, or how they can be “Gender neutral”.
No wonder this country’s going to hell in a handbasket. These liberal fools have brain-washed an entire generation to think and act like the damn fools who’ve been teaching this pablum.
Literally gagging.
I am glad i have no kids, PERIOD.
The LGBTQ Con and deception is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature,
Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia.
These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
Bigotry is not necessarily always a bad thing. One need not tolerate or accept every belief or action of another.
It is better to be condemned by LGBTQ and woke Democrats for obeying God’s word the Holy Bible and standing up for one’s morals and values.
Than to be on their knees bowing down for the crumbs and the whims of the corrupt and immoral demonic Democrats.