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The Battle For Sanity
When Everything Is Stupid, Nothing Is.
Maybe you’ve been feeling it too, this creeping sense of horror at how stupid the world is becoming. Maybe you’ve been watching as fully grown adults throw literal “throwing produce out of their trolley” tantrums because they’ve been asked to wear a mask during a worldwide pandemic. Maybe you’ve read that claim that robots, dogs, climate activism, the White Cliffs of Dover and even trying not to be racist, are all racist. Maybe you’ve noticed that believing that biological sex is a real thing has become a controversial position.
Nobody could blame you for wanting to check out and wait for it to all blow over. But what if it doesn’t? What is it about the current situation that leads you to believe that a return to more reasonable times is on the cards? Yes, we’ll eventually figure out a vaccine for the coronavirus. Hopefully, the current insanity around race relations will settle into a serious, frank discussion which leads to lasting change. Maybe our society can learn to treat all members of the LGBT community with respect and dignity without a basic respect for the meaning of scientific terminology being conflated with hatred. But honestly, does it seem to you that the way we’re dealing with our…
