The last supper rendition at the Olympics was mainly ugly and utterly devoid of any artistic merit. A remarkable lack of beauty, I thought, at the entire ceremony. I found it embarrassing to watch.
Have you noticed how in almost every civilization at some time towards its end, decadence and depravity are justified and defended usually on religious, or artistic grounds. Depravity and the old-fashioned licentiousness become the norm. They always signify a loss of moral standards and the loss of any moral compass within the society. It applied to the Greeks, the Romans and to various Egyptian and Chinese dynasties. It happened in Europe 100 years ago and it is happening now in the US-led “cultural civilization”. Nowadays the defense is more likely to take the shape of a sanctimonious, self-righteous defense of libertine tendencies (of course in the guise of defending liberty). But the common feature is the loss of moral compass, the loss of the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. It was in the 1920s and 30s that European civilization died and was absorbed and reinvented as a US-led cultural empire. The decline was manifested with WW1 and the treaty of Versailles and continued to the grave with the Nazis and WW2. What we are seeing now, 100 years on, is the decadence of the 30s in Europe being taken to new extremes and it is “Cabaret” gone global.
“Deviant” is a word which derives from deviations from a norm. Norms are created – in nature as well as in human interactions – because they are the most favoured results for that interaction. Living things evolve physical norms because they work. Deviations from the norm (diversity) can come in handy for a species if conditions change but in any given situation, the norms are always both favoured and the best fit. Individuals who deviate from the norm will always be misfits unless conditions make them the sole survivors who can then create a new norm. Deviations are, by definition, abnormal. Among humans, deviants from a norm are nearly always bad for that society in which they are abnormal. Diversity of individuals is a strength in a group undergoing change. But it is not so good for the individuals who deviate from the norm. The individual deviants (who give the group its diversity) are the outliers who are always available to be sacrificed.
Deviance, degeneracy, decadence, depravity – call it what you like and define it as you see fit. The existence of the words represent limits as they apply in any given society. The important thing is that the limits exist. It is when the words are deemed not to exist that it is obvious that the limits are being abandoned. All is permitted and nothing is bad. Good behaviour is equated with bad behaviour. Freaks are glorified, deviancy is rewarded, depravity is prized.
And so we had the ridiculous freak shows within a very lacklustre Olympics opening ceremony in Paris. The perceived blasphemy does not bother me very much but the freakery does. Drag artists are just players and often strive to be freakish. (It is usually more lucrative for a drag artist to be freakish). Nearly always (just like the hijra) it is men pretending to be women. There are a few – much rarer than political correctness assumes – cases of genetic aberrations causing individuals to deviate from the male/female norms. I just note that drag is almost never women pretending to be men.
Of course I am far from politically correct. Gender is a classification and there are only two genders. There are some individuals who are aberrations and deviate from the male/female norms. But, in my view claiming that “transgender” is some new gender is idiotic. The use of “cisgender” is imbecility in action. A male is a male is a male and does not need a “cis” to tell him so.
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