It’s rare that we have news so big, so incredibly important, that it trumps not only all the other news of the day, but all the other news of the year, the decade, the century, nay, perhaps the millennium.

Yes, it’s finally happened. The most important event of our lifetime: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.

I know. I, too, am flabbergasted. Shocked. I am also ecstatic.

Yesterday was a magical day in the history of the United States and perhaps all of Western civilization.

Listen, I will admit when I’m wrong. Two years ago, when these two lovebirds began their relationship, I thought this was just another one of Taylor Swift’s relationships that would end with a breakup album in which she sang like a 17-year-old about how sad she was that she’d been rejected, but don’t worry, she don’t need no man.

But she does need a man — and that man is Travis Kelce.

I have to say, unironically, I think it’s great. I hope they have a wonderful marriage. I hope they have lots of kids. I hope she sings lots of songs about being married and having kids, and all those songs are better than her normal songs.

That’s what I hope for her, because I think that would be a very good thing for the West, for America, for young women particularly — who have been taught for generations that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and that romance is somehow a giveaway to patriarchal institutions.

A core component of human happiness has always been finding a member of the opposite sex, marrying them, having babies with said member of the opposite sex, and enjoying a long-lasting relationship built on love and mutual commitment. That is a very good thing.

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According to Variety, “The couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos and the caption, ‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.’” 

Forget the whole idea that Taylor Swift would be a great English teacher; the pictures are quite charming and quite normal, and I’m here for it. The normie revolution is happening.

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Sure, she’s a billionaire, and he is a multimillionaire athlete, and that is a very, very large ring. That is some serious jewelry. They can afford it.

But you know what? Good for them. It’s charming and it is good.

I hope that many other people take advantage of the situation to get married and follow in their footsteps, and then have long-lasting, decades-long marriages filled with children and grandchildren. 

This is culturally significant because over the course of the last few decades, there has been a rebellion against normality, against the very idea that men and women ought to get married to one another.

Instead, the idea that was purveyed was that any decisions that men and women made with regard to relationships were equally praiseworthy, and equally useful, and equally likely to lead to happiness.

It’s not true. Tacitly, the reason people are celebrating this marriage is that singledom is not ideal. It is not, in fact, a wonderful, happy existence.

That doesn’t mean you have to be miserable if you’re single. What it does mean is that aspiring to be married, to be part of a happy marriage, is a wonderful thing. It’s an aspiration that is natural to the human heart.

And that is why people are happy for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The idea that a traditional romance between the high school cheerleader and the high school quarterback is a platonic ideal in America is because that is the basis of the forwarding of civilization.

Marriage is the fundamental, bedrock institution of all successful civilizations. That’s good.

This is tacitly a cultural rejection of the idea that the actual ideal is non-marriage, that the actual ideal is prancing around like Madonna in your 70s, being a faded pop star, and trying to convince everyone that you are super-duper happy waking up drunk in the mornings by yourself in a five-star hotel.

These images of Swift and Kelce are great. They’re wonderful. They’re good for the world.

Perhaps we’ll get a Taylor Swift baby boom. That would be an excellent development for Western Civilization.

What’s going to be fascinating is to see what comes next for Taylor Swift, aesthetically and musically. We made fun of her album cover a couple of weeks ago on the program, a very kind of over-sexualized album cover, and pointed out that she’s been getting more and more sexual on her album covers.

It’s going to be hard to do that when you’re married and you presumably go on to have kids; it won’t have quite the same sort of resonance.

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So what’s going to happen to Taylor Swift?

Taylor Swift is amazing at marketing herself. But pop music is a teenager’s medium. It is a medium made for teenage girls and people who have a prolonged adolescence in their mid-twenties.

Pop music is based on certain tropes; being brokenhearted about your latest breakup, being messed up about your latest breakup, or something else about your latest breakup. All pop music is basically rooted in sexual lust in terms of its lyrics and or emotional problems. That’s what pop music is about, which is why people age out of it. The minute that women stop being sexually alluring, it’s very difficult for them to be successful in the pop world.

Women age out of that in the pop world pretty quickly. Katy Perry, who is five years older than Swift, is the butt of enormous mockery online for her latest tour. She’s considered to be too old for the game.

I would not be shocked if Taylor Swift’s next album moves back toward country music. It’ll be fascinating to watch.

But again, my great hope here is that an entire generation of young people — particularly young women who have been told by the feminist movement and by pop stars like Taylor Swift that relationships are bound to fail and thus they should act with teenage angst — start to mature, along with Taylor Swift.

That would be amazing.