Re: America is going through a sexual revolution, and this self-identification survey
It's called progress, removing the shackles.
By this logic, the modern obesity epidemic is "progress" as well.
People have stopped starving to death, simply so they can start
eating themselves to death instead.
Technology can do a great many wonderful things. (Barring the possibility of mass behavioral modification, which would have some rather troubling implications in and of itself) however, it cannot make up for the basic short-comings of human nature in and of itself. That requires good old fashion
discipline - discipline which our present society sorely lacks, and tends to resent even being suggested.
It's about time you realized that if there were any such agenda and if such a thing were possible, all of the increase wouldn't lie in the "mostly heterosexual" category, as this graph shows. If sexuality is on a spectrum, guess what, it's always been that way and the only difference is that about, what, 8% of teenagers acknowledge they have some homosexual feelings too. Big deal! Doesn't mean they'll all act on them, and i don't see you throwing a fit at the idea that some "mostly homosexual" teenagers might experiment with the opposite sex. Where's the uproar over that?
As you people are so fond of pointing out, behavior, and orientation, are not the same thing. If bisexuality is increasingly being pushed as being "trendy" or otherwise socially desirable, it's not at all out of the question to suggest that its prevalence might sky-rocket regardless of the general population's actual sexual leanings.
The idea of a "sexual spectrum" is frankly a lot of largely irrelevant pap anyway for that exact reason. As I pointed out in another thread, primitive (hunter-gatherer) human societies, with only a small number of isolated, largely ritualized, exceptions limited to a few specific tribes, tend to have basically
no homosexuality or bisexuality. It's so rare that most of the people living in them don't even know what Western researchers are talking about when they raise the subject.
If these societies have such a "spectrum," it's clearly not having much of an impact.
By the same token, even if someone is "1%-10% homosexual" in their orientation in today's society, there's really no particularly pressing reason why they should ever indulge it. The odds are that it's so deeply buried that they would have to go deliberately out of their way to even try.
That's
exactly what modern culture is attempting to do more and more. It's trying to nudge people towards expressing behaviors which likely never would have even occurred to them in the first place otherwise. It is doing so towards no productive end other than self-indulgent hedonism.
Maybe you should ask yourself why it is that divorce is going up. Might it be that humans aren't really meant to be monogamous, that monogamy is what's unnatural?
Somehow, the human race managed to make it work for the centuries and millennia proceeding the 20th Century. Through the stability and productive center it provided, we built the modern world. If that's "unnatural," by all means, sign me up for more of it.
Monogamy is, simply speaking, a sign of civilization triumphing over barbarism. It should be embraced as such.
Is running 4 miles on a treadmill strictly "natural?" Is hefting an iron bar weighing in excess of 200 lbs over your chest over and over again "natural?" Is formalized education, or even reading the written word "natural?"
In all cases, the answer is "no." That does not, however, mean that they all aren't objectively
good for you.
Why will they? Because it's what people WANT. They don't want kids any more, a shift far beyond what the small segment that is liberal, or more accurately nihilist, could ever hope to achieve. That isn't a sexual revolution, as the same amount of sex can result in fewer kids, or for that matter more absent fathers than 1960.
No, people are self centered and think of themselves above the species or their "white culture" (as you put it) far more than you like to admit. Kids are expensive, exhausting, and now they can be avoided more easily
Which is kind of exactly why this modern trend towards unfettered nihilistic libertinism is, and always has been, doomed from the very start.
Human beings are
freaking morons. :lol:
They're cavemen, still working off of caveman instincts. Those instincts are largely obsolete, if not outright counterproductive, in the modern world. As such, telling that caveman to basically "go wild" tends to result in absolutely nothing productive.
Certain "shackles" exist for very good reason, I'm afraid.
