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copperred, am more of a diarist than a Blogger. I'd love to be a Blogger, with people all hanging on my every next post on some coherent topic, but instead I just throw everything right out there, and it is mostly little thoughts.
I just can't find the passion to write a nicely political blog about US politics, or homo politics in US politics which would be my natural niche: I do not feel involved in them, I consider myself a transient who just needs to survive well until he moves out. I would write about Dutch politics, but since the I only read the interviews and columns in which the most egregious comments are made a week after the fact when the newspaper finally ends up on my doorstep, I'm not very useful either. I could do technology, but as said, I'd be walking such a fine line there with my current employer.
What's left, my current obsession with the tawdry February scandals that have me glued to http://TMZ.com and http://PerezHilton.com while at the same time hating myself for supporting these outfits that make life utter hell for performers who are in the public eye? Not much longevity there. I shoot too little to be a photo moblogger. I think I am just good at leaving endless comments.
However then, something that has been on my mind as I have been discussing the limits and ethics of parental control and modifiability over their very young children.
1) If the strongest component of same-sex attractions turns out to have a genetic basis,
(twin studies show evidence for that)
2) And if that basis can be switched off without hampering the child beyond, say, making it worse at picking color or dropping 20 IQ points or having slightly worse impulse control, say,
(diversity within people with same-sex attractions seem to point to no correlation with other innate traits anyway)
then having same-sex attractions will be a pre-natal healthcare issue, which, in the US and countries without socialized healthcare means it will be a class issue. Rich people will opt to have it switched off in their kids, poor people will be unable to, and globally, have a bigger chance of having homo or bi kids since they tend to have more kids. Charities will be setup where people can give to give poor warped fetuses a chance to grow up straight, and good Christian geneticists will do their pro-bono stints in Africa along the lines of Operation Smile. If in this environment homos stay organized enough to come out and give each other support, they will stay segregated from the upper classes due to mutual resentment, while the homos will both emulate and parody the upper- and middle-classes they will exclusively engage only as service people for decoration and landscaping and party planning and some mechanicals and secretarial jobs, engaged as a sort of charity, but with no access on the inside.
I used to think there was a good chance bis and homos might be extinct in 3 generations. Now I think upper- and middle-class bis and homos will be extinct in 3 generations, with some upsurges when rich mommies get in the fad of letting nature run its course in some decades.
copperred, am more of a diarist than a Blogger. I'd love to be a Blogger, with people all hanging on my every next post on some coherent topic, but instead I just throw everything right out there, and it is mostly little thoughts. I just can't find the passion to write a nicely political blog about US politics, or homo politics in US politics which would be my natural niche: I do not feel involved in them, I consider myself a transient who just needs to survive well until he moves out. I would write about Dutch politics, but since the I only read the interviews and columns in which the most egregious comments are made a week after the fact when the newspaper finally ends up on my doorstep, I'm not very useful either. I could do technology, but as said, I'd be walking such a fine line there with my current employer.
What's left, my current obsession with the tawdry February scandals that have me glued to http://TMZ.com and http://PerezHilton.com while at the same time hating myself for supporting these outfits that make life utter hell for performers who are in the public eye? Not much longevity there. I shoot too little to be a photo moblogger. I think I am just good at leaving endless comments.
However then, something that has been on my mind as I have been discussing the limits and ethics of parental control and modifiability over their very young children.
1) If the strongest component of same-sex attractions turns out to have a genetic basis,
(twin studies show evidence for that)
2) And if that basis can be switched off without hampering the child beyond, say, making it worse at picking color or dropping 20 IQ points or having slightly worse impulse control, say,
(diversity within people with same-sex attractions seem to point to no correlation with other innate traits anyway)
then having same-sex attractions will be a pre-natal healthcare issue, which, in the US and countries without socialized healthcare means it will be a class issue. Rich people will opt to have it switched off in their kids, poor people will be unable to, and globally, have a bigger chance of having homo or bi kids since they tend to have more kids. Charities will be setup where people can give to give poor warped fetuses a chance to grow up straight, and good Christian geneticists will do their pro-bono stints in Africa along the lines of Operation Smile. If in this environment homos stay organized enough to come out and give each other support, they will stay segregated from the upper classes due to mutual resentment, while the homos will both emulate and parody the upper- and middle-classes they will exclusively engage only as service people for decoration and landscaping and party planning and some mechanicals and secretarial jobs, engaged as a sort of charity, but with no access on the inside.
I used to think there was a good chance bis and homos might be extinct in 3 generations. Now I think upper- and middle-class bis and homos will be extinct in 3 generations, with some upsurges when rich mommies get in the fad of letting nature run its course in some decades.
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Date: 2007-03-01 01:38 am (UTC)Once upon a time, somewhere else on the Internet, someone posted a joke-thing about Brokeback Mountain, where the idea was that you were looking at the protagonists' notional shopping lists as the plot of the movie went on. So it started out with cheap beer and hot dogs or whatever, and eventually wound up with fancy champagne and prosciutto and other foofy exotic-sounding stuff like that. Because, you know, they're Turning Gay.