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                  I don't often write polemic posts anymore because, after all,
                  what is one voice shouting on the internet in the face of mass
                  media. Increasingly the internet is becoming just a set of
                  walled gardens, outside of which the "dark web"  is blasted as
                  criminal when it is, in fact, that last remnants of a free and
                  open internet. Such is often the case though.
                  
                 
                   So why am I writing this post if I've already accepted it's
                   futility? Because I am extremely disheartened by the vote in
                   Ireland over the weekend which succeeded in removing the
                   protections for the weakest members of society so they can be
                   killed off in the name of convenience. I'm talking, of course,
                   about abortion. That plus birth control and homosexuality are
                   leading to the declining birthrates - below the replacement
                   rate - that plague western societies and will eventually lead
                   to their collapse and replacement by something else. Such is
                   the nature of demographics.
                  
                 
                   Ireland was the last bastion of sanity, but ideas often need
                   frameworks for them to be propagated and with the well-deserved
                   fall of catholicism, feminism has replaced it there as in so
                   many places. Women like feminism out of pure self interest
                   and men like it because, as Jay and Silent Bob put it so
                   eloquently outside an abortion clinic "Why else would they be
                   here unless they like to fuck?"
                  
                 
                   Feminism is a cancer of society specifically because it eats
                   away at the body of society, until eventually that body is
                   destroyed. Our buildings, our infrastructure will remain, but
                   someone else will be living in them. And it won't be our
                   children, because there won't be any.
                  
                 
                   But maybe that is too dark a view. Maybe the full feminist
                   utopia will be brought into existence (although what men
                   that remain may consider it a distopia). To do a reductio ad
                   absurdum think of the ants or the bees. Over 99% of them are
                   female and most of those females aren't reproducing, just
                   living out their lives without the bother of motherhood. The
                   few men that exist are imprisoned and used to harvest sperm
                   or else the sperm is harvested and saved so that the men can
                   just be killed. Having just finished reading Margaret Atwood's
                   Handmaid's Tale, such a sexually controlled society
                   is definitely at the top of my mind.
                  
                 
                   Murder is Mercy insist the proponents of abortion in
                   that unwanted children will not be treated well. But that
                   logic could be applied to so many of us who suffer through
                   life, or even who endure periods of suffering. Why not kill
                   them all for the benefit of society at large? Maybe Thanos
                   was right in the Infinity War?
                  
                 
                   Sitting here in a coffeeshop in the sheikhdom of the north I
                   cannot help but wonder if it's oil or perfectly planned socialism
                   that leads to such wealth. Okay, I don't wonder for long
                   because I know what a poor fishing economy Norway was long after
                   they instituted socialism, but well before they discovered
                   oil. But it is easy for people to remain ignorant of history.
                  
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