Re: Chasing rabbits

"We have always been at war with Eurasia and Gays have always desired marriage and kids." Derision is not evidence and divorce rates throughout the Western world suggest that gay couples are as well-suited to marriage as straight couples are (lesbians are a whole other matter). Gays in 1700 didn't have the same choices available to them that they do today, so you'll need something more solid to go on if we are to assume that the kind of life someone wants for himself has anything to do with what makes his dick hard. "Dying civilisations lash out in wildly unpredictable ways and they elect men like Trump to prove it." Civilization and its political institutions may have been closer to being synonymous in the past, but since the industrial revolution that's become much less so. Most of the disaffection with politics today is due to its inability to keep up with civilization as a whole and there's no indication that this trend will change direction. Political institutions may very well die, but the market economy is in as good a position as ever to leave them in the dust should the need arise and keep providing everything our way of life depends on. I don't think daily life has to worry very much about any pederastic samurai popping up and changing any paradigms. Broad systemic changes, no matter how much you might cast them as being little more than recent developments, cannot be so easily be put back in the bottle. You need to deepen your understanding.