What makes them think they are "progessive?" Do you think the legalization of drug use as not been tried before? Do you think that give women abortions now is some sort of liberation, when it has been going on for centuries? Do you think homosexuals are finally being freed, when the Greeks and the Romans (to a lesser extent) accepted same-sex relationships (to a smaller extent, aka before marriage)? Do you guys think (and I'm speaking to social progressives here, not Democrats, but social progressives, since I prefer a more centrist economic policy) that these "new" ideas are the crux of human development? Take the example of women's rights. Women were given equal treatment by many societies and even central figures (like Jesus for example), yet when society settles on a particular idea (in this case, Aristotle's theory of women being the form and man the substance, a huge influence in medeval Europe) they change all the rules to suit their beliefs. Likewise many of you think that this is it: all these changes will be for the better, and humanity will be freed from prejudices, wrongs of the past, and idiocy of the "less developed/less intelligent" humans that came before us. Yet we all see that humans reiterate the same tired old ideas over and over again, in a never ending circle, refusing to live simple lives, but always making new movements, claiming new modes of thought, believing in some new way of life. Take the recent issue of a prom being closed over a lesbian student. Is she showing off? It is a possibility: school girls, to attract boys, often act in sensual manners with other girls. But that is beside the point: so she is gay apparently, and as all of the leaders of this movement expound, these people need equal rights, because their love is equal to that of a heterosexual. Forget the impossibility of genetic factors predisposing one to homosexuality. Forget the abandonment of the purpose of marriage(family unit based on love, key word being "family" or one's own offsprings). Forget that nature predisposes man to be man and women to be women, forget all that. We decide sexuality. Lol and social progressives imagine that their ideas are fresh. Well, I can tell you this: Greeks had their time, but their philosophies passed away. Likewise, consider your philosophies like a drug: you get people excited, get peopled aboard the idea, but when they try it out and enjoy its initial effects, they, after addiction, regret their actions. I'm not saying we should write off, for example, homosexuals: they have feelings, and we should determine scientifically why those feelings exist. But to accept every whim every person makes is to be a fool who disregards the past as primative, and the future as enlightening.
As a historian will point out in relation to the "end of the world:" every generation has thought it was the last. I say add to that ideas: every generation has thought it was the best, the brightest, at the peak of a new world order. Time for a reality check
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