TRASH CULTURE'S FINEST HOUR

      Back in 18th Century Scotland---a country that would have been a paradise to today's Neocons with its established order, rank, and privilege---it wasn't uncommon in these bucolic small communities that rumors occasionally began spreading. Many times, these rumors would filter into the ears of churchwardens and elders of the Church of Scotland: especially when they involved a man and woman who were spending a bit of time together alone. When this happened, the elders would discuss it at their regular meeting and appoint wardens to investigate. Generally this ended with the couple appearing before the board and making a public confession, followed by a thorough tongue-lashing and probationary period. I'm not certain how much of a deterrent this humiliating affair actually was, given how often such cases appear in the Church's Archives. At any rate, fortunately some of our forefathers heard of a newly-independent country across the Atlantic where churches and nobles weren't spying on people, and so found a ship and headed abroad. 

     Younger readers probably don't remember the attitudes of descendents of people who left Old Europe. As child, I'd occasionally hear a family member in the other room: "Say, did you hear about Mary Smith? It's said that when her husband John's away, that the mail carrier always has mail that needs a signature and stops in for a hour or so..." About which time an elderly voice would interrupt: "Is that any of your business? How'd you feel if the neighbors were talking about you like that?" 

    Well, that was then, this is now. It feels strange to say that, considering that we're talking about a time so recent that our current Head-of-State was already serving in Congress. 

   Somewhere between the time when Congressmen actually conducted investigations into things like governmental abuses of power and today's disgraceful spectacle of a former president being brought before a civil Inquisition---sex scandals have become something of a national past-time as Supreme Court nominees, politicians, and many celebrities have learned to their mortification. The same Whacko Left-Wing doing high-fives and screaming in fake outrage over today's Trump Indictment no doubt would read the above anecdote about the Church of Scotland and recoil in horror over what those judgemental bigots were doing; when they ought to be taking a good look in a mirror. 

  We really have become a nation of voyeurs. A Peeping Tom ought to be our national emblem. Americans seem to have evolved this weird dualism about (heterosexual) relations. I think that it has to do largely with our wholesale abandonment of Privacy Rights. The average Ameroboob seems to equate in his dope-saturated mind anything relating to heterosexuality as dirty and impure. "After all, people do it in the dark, behind closed doors. It must be something shameful. Otherwise, why don't they do it on Instagram or OnlyFans where we can all see? What are they trying to hide?" 

   Which explains a lot about our national fascination with online pornography and acceptance of perverts holding 'Pride Parades.' It also explains the borderline- neurotic micromanagement of intersexual relations that goes on in schools, workplaces, etc. Paranoia and Sexual Hysteria do not go well together. In an individual it's bad enough; but when it effects a whole society, it becomes an extremely destructive force. If that sounds like an exaggeration, ask yourselves one question: think back from all the sex scandals from the late 80s to today and name one positive thing that's come out of any of them? 

   While we're pondering that question, here are a few other thoughts. Have all the draconian workplace rules against employee relationships improved American productivity one iota? (In fact, it seems to me that many successful small businesses are husband-and-wife teams). Has all of the paedohysteria and sexual paranoia in our schools improved educational outcomes one bit? Has the near-constant Media fixation on sex scandals made us better-informed voters or come up with constructive solutions to our national problems? 

   The answer is no: in fact, what it's produced is a couple of generations of singles walking around on eggshells lest they offend somebody or cross a line; while at the same time giving us a subculture of Incels, gender dysphorics, porn addicts, and other unwholesome channels for sexual repression. In short, we've created a culture that maximizes sexual tension and offers deviance as the only 'acceptable' way to relieve it. At least our forefathers in Old Europe intended to channel sexual tension into matrimony and parenthood---and the real disgrace here is that even their heavy-handed methods were at least well-intentioned and actually produced some good. 

   In all of the upcoming lurid press-leaks, finger-pointing, narrative-spinning, and pundit-spouting following the Trump Indictment, the one thing that we can all be assured of is nothing positive will result for anybody. Meanwhile, the economy will continue to sink, schools will continue to fail, crime will continue unabated---nobody will care about other scandals like the Nordstream sabotage or the bioweapons labs in Ukraine; or the mounting death-toll from the Loyalty Vaxx or Opioid overdoses---in short the Great Reset will go marching forward while Ameroboobs rush to the 420 Store before the CNN exclusive reveals what color underwear Stormy Daniels wore on fateful night that changed history.