Why?
Because so many of our current cultural forms mirror a twisted amalgamation of Orwell and Huxley's dystopian prophecies, that's why!
However in the light of the prophetic nature of these two novels perhaps it might be more accurate to say; "welcome to the coming 6th Century mindset a.k.a. the caliphate.
I say this not because I am morbidly sceptical of all things post-modern, nor am I particularly pessimistic, but because circumstances have allowed me the time and opportunity to research and cogitate fairly widely on current affairs.
These and my subsequent meditations on current Western cultural 'norms' have led me to conclude that the left-wing nut-jobs we have allowed to infiltrate Western culture (hat-tip to the Gramscian doctrine) via the governments, educational faculty's, established churches and main-steam-media outlets have inculcated such a wimpish mentality into the average westerner that the death-cult currently referred to as ISIL, should have little trouble converting the majority of western urban-dwelling, gaian-worshipping, limp-wristed, tofu-latte sipping, licra-encased, vegan sissies into subservient dhimmi's.
Speaking of which, here follows the latest news on an issue which might be of some interest to those of us in the non-establishment church, and instigated no doubt by some of the aforementioned luvvies:
"The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city's first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.
That's to say, the government is using the law to harass religious institutions critical of a political figure. Which sounds like First Amendment 101. I had to read it through a couple of times to check that I hadn't missed some crucial element. But on a close reading it gets even better. The government is demanding the right to inspect not merely sermons, which are texts written for public consumption, but private speech, too:
Among those slapped with a subpoena is Steve Riggle, the senior pastor of Grace Community Church. He was ordered to produce all speeches and sermons related to Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality and gender identity.
The mega-church pastor was also ordered to hand over "all communications with members of your congregation" regarding the non-discrimination law.
The impetus for all this is a municipal ordinance:
The subpoenas are just the latest twist in an ongoing saga over the Houston's new non-discrimination ordinance. The law, among other things, would allow men to use the ladies room and vice versa.
When Rush Limbaugh interviewed me the other day, I airily used "transgendered bathrooms" as an all-purpose shorthand for the kind of peripheral cultural issues that cumulatively add up to far more profound societal changes than anything most conservative politicians fuss over. And so in Houston it has proved: When the transgendered bathroom ordinance runs up against the First Amendment, it's the First Amendment that gets left for roadkill.
~Meanwhile, in Kentucky, a Lexington T-shirt company has fallen afoul of the local "human rights commission" for declining to print T-shirts for the gay pride parade that it found offensive. As part of his ruling, the "human rights" commisssar, Greg Munson, has sentenced the T-shirt refuseniks to re-education camp:
The second demand is that Hands on Originals — a company with around 30 employees — would need to participate in diversity training within the next 12 months.
Or, as Laura Rosen Cohen says, "Off to Diversity Gulag": The more we celebrate diversity, the more we have to enforce it with ruthless conformity. Big Gay has won most of its battles, and could surely afford to be magnanimous in victory. But it has a totalitarian urge to hunt down the last holdouts: Nobody cares if the T-shirt guy really has a change of heart; all that's necessary is to force him to pretend to believe and to drone the mandated pabulum in public.
~Insofar as either of these stories gets any traction, they'll be presented in the mainstream media as haters vs gays. That's another example of how the left has conquered the cultural space: after being marinated in narratives of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia et al since kindergarten, fewer and fewer people even pay lip service to ideas of "free speech". Why, if free speech is being used to attack transgendered bathrooms, then it's part of the problem and has to go. And note that these stories are not from blue-state la-la lands like Massachusetts and California, but from supposed red-meat red states. How red do you suppose they'll be looking by, say, 2030?
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