I'm taking about crap like in the series
PennyDreadful, where about halfway through the first Season, Josh Hartnett's - so far, completely heterosexual - cowboy character gets drunk and has a one night stand with a hedonistic pansexual character "just 'cuz," and then goes right back to lusting after Eva Green's character like nothing ever happened afterwards. I'm seeing this kind of nonsense more and more in mainstream media these days. Again, that's not a coincidence. It's a blatant promotion of a certain lifestyle and way of thinking about sexuality.
Don't get me wrong. In some cases, it's more workable than others. Frank Underwood's bisexual (or possibly just homosexual who occasionally has sex with women) character in House of Cards isn't terrible, because it actually adds a bit of pathos to him. It's just another way in which his real self differs from his public self. While I really can't say the same for the bisexual/pansexual character in Halt and Catch Fire, I can at least understand why adding a homosexual aspect to the role might have appealed to that particular actor, as he happens to be homosexual himself in real life.
What happened in PennyDreadful, on the other hand? I'm sorry, but no. That was only there to be "trendy." It served no purpose to the story whatsoever outside of that. You could almost visualize the writing team sitting back in their little office, jerking themselves off over how "ground breaking" they thought they're being while the scene was on screen.
That really speaks to the cultural paradigm shift we're seeing on this issue in general. The narrative isn't "gay people exist, try to be kind to them" any more. It's "homosexuality is trendy and desirable, you might even be a little gay yourself."
It would appear that the younger generation is responding to that message more and more. That's frankly more than a bit ridiculous, given what a small portion of the overall population legitimate bisexuals and homosexuals actually are.
Losing half of one's population in less than a century isn't the kind of thing a society or people simply shrugs off. By any practical measure, it's a
catastrophe, and a completely avoidable one at that.
This whole attitude of "who cares, I'm only out for me" is exactly the problem here.
i.e.
Brave New World, as I said before.
Again, this is also assuming that all of these things you're talking about ever come to be in the first place. That's hardly a given.
You're not understanding my point in its entirety. The push for bisexuality is simply one small piece of a larger overall trend.
That trend is towards Cultural Marxism in all aspects of society. It is proving to be nothing less than blatantly poisonous.
You apparently need to re-read my post. The point was that just as an individual person who neglects their health in favor of superficial trivialities would be considered to be "sick," so too is our present culture and society. It's not only lost sight of what's actually important, but done so to such an excessive degree that it actually jeopardizes its own existence.
Crappy behaviour is hardly the inevitable consequence of technology. The people of the late 1900s through to the mid 20th Century were actually
substantially better behaved, by and large, than people living centuries before them. That was due to both the influence of the prevailing culture of that era keeping many of the worst aspects of human nature in check, and higher standards of living making circumstances less desperate for most of the population.
It's only been fairly recently (within the last fifty or so years) that everyone seems to have simply thrown their hands up in the air and said "screw it, that's no fun." They have done so largely as a result of the same raised standards of living engendering complacency, and a false sense of security, in combination with the dedicated efforts of cultural and political Marxists to destroy the old social order responsible for keeping everyone in line.
Again, it's becoming more and more apparent with time that this change has not been for the better.
No, that was the repeated butt ****ings they received from the Germanic tribes on their borders, and the Islamic Caliphates due to allowing their civilization to basically crumble from the inside out while they squabbled amongst themselves over petty nonsense. There's a lesson to be learned there, methinks.
