by
Gadfly
“You will be assimilated;
resistance is futile.” This was a
declaration heard by the crew of Star Trek’s Enterprise. The declaration also revealed “the Borg”
would absorb “biological” distinctiveness into the collective. Once assimilated race and gender become
irrelevant.
We all know Star Trek was a
highly successful science fiction series.
Yet, how “fictional” is it?
Sexual orientation conversion
therapy has been outlawed in numerous states, to include most recently,
Colorado, where a homosexual governor signed the ban into law. Parents now would be breaking the law by seeking
therapy for a child that thinks he or she is anything but heterosexual. The Colorado political elite has declared to parents:
“You will be assimilated; resistance is futile.” To amplify the effect, a Democrat-controlled
legislature also advanced an educational bill to indoctrinate children in
different sexual orientations and to begin as early as possible by funding
full-day kindergarten. Both are now
signed into law by the Colorado governor.
With the left’s penchant for
declaring contrary views as “extreme,” the Colorado Democrat-controlled
legislature advanced a “red flag” bill that the governor signed into law. The Second Amendment is very clear in
establishing the inalienable right to bear arms. Unfortunately, this right is an “extreme”
view because it is contrary to those who believe in gun control. Without due-process, individuals can now have
their legally owned arms confiscated because someone accuses them of not being
safe to possess them. The burden of
proof, along with the cost of legal representation, rests on the person who has
been alleged to be unsafe. Not only is the
“red flag” law a violation of the Second Amendment, it further confirms the power
of Colorado’s Borg.
Recently, South Bend (home of the University of Notre Dame), Indiana Mayor
Pete Buttigieg, a fresh Democratic presidential candidate, attacked Vice
President Mick Pence for his Christian views.
Although Pence never publicly said anything derogatory about Buttigieg
or his lifestyle, the latter declared that if Pence had any issues about his
homosexual lifestyle, he needed to take it up with his Creator. In other words, God made him gay.
Really? What makes Buttigieg believe a homosexual
orientation is an exception to other behaviors such as pedophilia, rape, adultery,
masturbation, watching pornography, murder, robbery, and so forth? Could not a thief argue that he was born to
be a thief? Buttigieg was a proselytizing
pontificator when he demeaned Pence. To be
clear, in order for Buttigieg to consummate his relatively recent “marriage,” he
and his male partner likely engage in sodomy with absolutely no possibility to
procreate. His Creator must be so
pleased.
My guess
is that Buttigieg could care less. He is
counting on America’s Borg-assimilated drones to defend his sexual orientation
by rallying in support of his candidacy.
The pool of potential drones is growing with many of our youth now “confused”
about their gender. The left encourages
it because it makes them more vulnerable and malleable.
Aside from
the symbolism of the Cathedral of Notre Dame as a manifestation of Western
civilization and its Judeo-Christian foundation, there is great irony in the
unfortunate fact that it was consumed by fire yesterday. Till yesterday, Notre Dame symbolically resisted
the insidious and ubiquitous ambitions of the French Enlightenment and endured for
centuries despite the atrocities of the French Revolution and the ravages of
two World Wars.
With the tragedy and its
implications of yesterday’s burning, it is further ironic to witness a Harvard-
and Oxford-educated intellectual at the tender age of 37 beat his chest[1] as being morally superior
because even though he claims to be Christian, he is truly a progressive
secular humanist that is focused on “perfecting” humankind in his own image
(even though God created us all in His image).
Because they believe “reason” and “science” are superior to “faith,”
they can manufacture canards such as man-made climate change to rally their Borg-assimilated
drones to achieve political power. I
love asking secular humanists to prove time, since it is so fundamental to our
understanding of natural science. Even
when they understand they cannot prove an a priori truth, they still cannot
admit to having “faith” in its a priori nature.
The author of Ecclesiastes was
not Harvard- nor Oxford-educated. Yet, he
understood that inflated pride in oneself is not a generational infliction: “Vanities
of vanities! All things are vanity. What profit has man from all the labor which
he toils at under the sun? One
generation passes and another comes, but the world stays forever” (1: 2-4).
I watched Clint Eastwood’s
movie, The Mule, last week. He played the lead, 80+-year old character (Earl
Stone) who served as a mule for a drug cartel.
He was eventually caught and tried in court, which was the most important
scene in the movie. Despite the good
intentions of his lawyer to have him absolved of any crime, Earl interrupted
the proceedings to plead guilty. At his
age, accountability and redemption were more important than vanity.
In
her book, The Return of the
Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, Ayn Rand made this
observation:
The
uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They
come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and
constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared
to be the country's official ideology (1999, Penguin, p. 8).
The left
is relentless with slogans about those with contrary views. For now, there remains a substantial
population of Americans who believe in liberty, the rule of law, and justice. Because they hold firm to Judeo-Christian values,
they will be called homophobes and Islamophobes, for they resist the absurdity of
views contrary to natural law and two to four millennia of tradition. They will be called racists and xenophobes
because they believe in legal immigration.
They will be called misogynists because they believe in the sacredness
of human life and motherhood.
For now, America’s Borg has a healthy
and active opposition. This
opposition will resist; it will not be assimilated into America’s secular
humanist Borg. Ideally, the opposition
will provide an alternative to the vulnerable and malleable members of our
society.
[1] Note: C.S. Lewis might argue that Buttigieg has no
chest, as discussed in his chapter, “Men without Chests,” in The Abolition of Man.
