There need to be people who say “I am not OK with this”, and there needs to be space. I don’t think gay marriage has existed in any nation or any time other than this present one. How is that something that was unknown to the world 30 years ago is suddenly so blatantly OK that people who disagree get death threats?
We need to fear the herd instinct. We need to fear the rejection of compromise and the public practice of principled disagreement.
I cannot help but wonder what is next. Seemingly they are trying to eliminate the words man and woman. Do you want to live in a world where you have to come up with an alternative to the words for Human with a penis, human with a vagina?
What we need to grasp is that a desperate moral pessimism and intellectual exhaustion underlie all this. No concrete good is planned. It is simply that our thought elites have lost all contact with the real world, all contact with physical reality, and are instead forced to live in the world of language without even the substance of meaning.
Meaning connects language to reality, but they don’t believe in reality because they are unable to make any affirmative moral judgments, and accepting the existence of a reality independent of language would force them to come to terms with this lack, this powerlessness, rather than stick to the safety of empty talk about talk.
Put another way, the people doing this do not believe in God or Truth or Beauty. They should be opposed for this reason alone. If they are the only ones shouting, and everyone with a shred of sense is cringing and running, then our nation is doomed.
Most of us are not stupid. Most of us are simply too polite to risk being labeled an -ist. But these people are batshit fucking crazy, and we all need to wake up to this fact.