Dan Proft Commentary
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It is June Happy Holidays, the other 120 or so odd days, and I do mean odd designated to see and hear the many flowers that have blossomed in the west. Manmade L-G-B-T-Q-I-A two s plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus garden are important. Or the transit descendency, is it more proper to call it the TLG BT QIA two s plus plus plus plus garden? I’m actually old enough to remember when it was the more modest G-L-S-E-N. That was when I was A GDI looking to graduate from NU ASAP to start paying down my IOUs. Anyway, I was saying, as I was saying, the calendar’s chockfull of days. We honor those for their heroism in the fields of carne relations and cosplay, but June is particularly special. In this month. We stand as one nation under Barack Obama divisible by our political identities with libertinism and lawfare For all.
We fly our flags. We post our yard signs demanding kindness or else we parade around our graffiti streets and join the local village people. Impersonators simulate sex acts for the kids, perhaps even on the kids. We attend retrospectives of Robert Mapplethorpe’s groundbreaking artistry to remind ourselves how far we’ve come since the bad old days when some people didn’t think taking pictures of a naked dude with a bull whip up his anus was worthy of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Can you believe we were ever so bigoted? Hardhearted parsimonious, mean-spirited, hateful, ignorant, intolerant, and exclusionary. And we take the Mayor London Breed Challenge to name and offer thanks for at least three magical drag queens in our community, just as she does in San Francisco.
And if you could name three L-G-B-T-Q advisors for your campaign and three drag queens in San Francisco.
The whole month is an end-to-end bachanal of love, inclusion, and tolerance. The sarcasm here is mine, but the caricature of the LGBT Qia A two s plus plus plus movement is actually theirs. It’s their caricature. I don’t consider gay people, for example, to be one dimensional human beings whose only value is with whom they sleep. They do, and the they of whom I speak are the identitarian political ideologues and their appic who used sex and identity the same way that Jesse Jackson used race, the same way that Marx used class, which is to undermine a free society. I understand millions of useful idiots who fly the rainbow flag and adjoin their social media profiles with human rights campaign approved emojis. Do not understand the gay and trans rights movement to be fundamentally political because they well are useful idiots. They are at the intersection of arrogance, which manifests itself as moral superiority and ignorance, which manifests itself as not knowing anything about which they speak a lot of, a lot of, there’s a lot of accidents at that intersection.
Look, I’m not a prude and the next time I present myself as some paragon of moral virtue will be the first time. But let’s get past the sentimental so sophistry and take a sober look here, shall we? The sexual identity political movement as a revolutionary one in the West is more than a century old. Some of you have heard of the Frankfurt School or were philosophy or psych majors or those who view who were philosophy or psych majors may have heard or be familiar with the names Marcus and Fal. But for the purposes of this brief discussion, let me focus on Sigmund Freud’s prize student. That would be Wilhelm Reich. It was REI who coined the term sexual revolution four decades before hippies were calling for it at Woodstock. In doing so, Reich was not offering social commentary, but rather marketing a plan for the future.
Like Marx, Wrike knew that the advance of Marxism began with atheism. The church must be destroyed like Marx. Wrike said that Christianity only survives through tradition being passed down from one generation to the next through family. This is why Marxists everywhere and always have targeted the family first and still do. Why wouldn’t they? It’s worked quite well for their purposes, hasn’t it? As my friend Doug Johnson, the editor of Touchstone Magazine, wrote Wright correctly surmised that the way to knock the props out from underneath the American family would be to condition western man to see contraception, fornication, adultery, pornography, sodomy, et cetera, as perfectly normal and not unhealthy things as he saw sex education in schools as the best way to quote divest parents of their moral authority, unquote. The late Italian philosopher Augusta del Noche described Reich’s book The Sexual Revolution as quote the Amp of permissive.
How about that? For a book jacket blurb in his review for the far left slate.com of Christopher Turner’s 2011 book about Wright’s legacy entitled Adventures in Orgasmatron psychiatrist Peter Kramer properly observed, and I’m quoting him, when Wilhelm Wright coined the phrase the sexual revolution, he meant transformation in every sphere, health, marriage, economics, morality, and government. It was in sex. He believed that we found the integrated self liberated transformation in every sphere that is necessarily and fundamentally a political exercise, isn’t it? Kramer, in that same review, essentially conceded the point when he suggested the following in his assessment of how Reich’s influence lives on writing. It is largely an Oprah in the broad dissemination of advice about intimacy and self-fulfillment. The culture of confession has not led to political and nirvana, but we may, I do see a link between Oprah’s investment in emotional connection and her endorsement and our election of Obama. Again, Peter Kramer’s word. So perhaps America did not embrace Reich’s psychological revolution as quickly or starkly as he desired. We’re flying his flags. Now I’m Dan Prof with the Countercultural Commentary.
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