Aspirations.
We all have them. We had them as children, we still have them today, perhaps tempered by life, but still there.
When I was a kid, we aspired to be astronauts, doctors, policemen, firemen, teachers, etc., the worst were the kids who wanted to be lawyers. It wasn’t just the little boys, several of the little girls wanted to be doctors, lawyers and businesspeople – one of my good friends and female classmates became a brilliant pediatrician, two others went to law school, and several became successful business owners.
I never heard any teacher tell any of my classmates, male or female, that they couldn’t do what they wanted to do, that their chromosomes doomed them to a certain caste.
We all aspired to something productive and most of the time we were taught we could have personal success by successfully serving others. We were taught that our brains could change our lives and the lives of others.
Fast forward to today.
To what are our kids being taught to aspire today?
If you break it down to the very basics, it certainly appears that the aspirations of old have given way to a more selfish desire. Most of the careers I revered in my childhood are déclassé these days, they are frowned upon. Kids are being indoctrinated in social activism, studying the art of protesting and most of all, they are being taught that their brains can change their own lives, to hell with other people.
How it happened is a long, sad tale of parents abdicating their natural, parental responsibilities to actually rearing their children and handing that over to teachers. If Tik-Tok is any representation, that angry strange girl you knew in school, the one with purple hair and the nose ring and the docile, almost feminine guy who hung out with the cheerleaders and worked after school at the perfume counter at the local department store are now teaching your kids.
And in their book, the highest aspiration is to be transgender or some other deviant form of sexual existence. Gender fluidity is in, becoming an astronaut is out.
It’s not about fitting in, it is about standing out – not through performance or academic excellence, it is about convincing a child to create an identity that will garner attention through opposition to tradition and nature.
I can remember when Lady Gaga’s song, “Born This Way” was the anthem (and excuse) for the LGBT community (that was before they added the Q and all the other letters). They gay community demanded inclusion because they were “born this way” and you had to accept them or else.
Coupled with the massive amounts of alternative life style advocacy and promotion all the way down to kindergarten – and Just how much advocacy has been revealed due to the outrage and virtue signaling over the knowingly and criminally misidentified parental rights bill in Florida. Taking to Tik-Tok those of the LGBTQ community posted their L’s and just confirmed just how much activism was going on every day.
It was a lot.
Given the rise in the number of children (and mentally ill parents) who now identify as some other gender than their biological sex determined at birth, it is a sign that while some may have been “born that way”, many kids are being indoctrinated and recruited into the ranks of the socially deviant by teachers trusted to educate the kids, not teach them to aspire to deny their natural state of being.
It is my belief that kids are being taught that the LGBTQ life is somehow more noble, more rewarding, and more moral than a traditional heterosexual existence.
Those people are wrong.
The LGBTQ community will always consist of outliers.
And that’s not my opinion, that is based on hundreds of thousands of years of human history – and human biology.
The human existence is based on reproduction through a binary sexual model. Man and woman are the natural state of the species. Over the entire history of humanity, there have always been LGBTQ people, occupying various roles in society – but these people have always been an extreme minority of the total human population, as they continue to be. That doesn’t mean these people were less than human, but they were the square pegs in a civilization of round holes – and therefore, their choices and preferences were at odds with most of society.
Not saying it is right, but societies ostracize the outliers, especially those who cannot engage in the prerogative of furthering the species.
That’s not a description of an easy, rewarding existence.
And yet, kids are being recruited to increase the LGBTQ numbers.
It is wrong and they know it. The outcry after the passage of the Florida law is proof. The fact Disney went all-in against the law (AFTER it passed) while doing business in countries where being gay is illegal (or a death sentence) speaks volumes about the legitimacy of their support.
We need to show our kids better aspirations.
Way back when, 40-50 years ago, I took a semester course (high school or college, maybe both) in “Abnormal Psychology.”
Does this course exist any longer? What is it called now? “Who Cares About Psychology?”