Gay Marriage

Response to celebration over this.

Marriage in itself tends toward antilife. Love is good, and tends toward life, as does lifelong attachment and appreciation, desire for continued company, and trust and reliance. Marriage as an institution stands counter to life, being a means of controlling genetic mixing and limiting the diversity of later human generations by discouraging cross-mating and change. The elaborate marriage rituals of the past emerged from the rise of fear and the resulting evil in human consciousness, where humans created noble lines in order to limit genetic exchange in an attempt to achieve immortality through interbred (more like their forebears) offspring. Noble lines continued this pattern planetwide, marrying and associating with other noble lines, with outward-rippling social mandates attempting to limit acknowledged reproduction in general mimicry. The violent end result of this cohesion, the Anglo-Saxons, murdered the Scots and Celts and ultimately spawned America, while retaining an inbred noble line on the island and disseminating a mercantilist elite to the new world, which proceeded to exterminate the native population there and entrench itself and its offspring lines in an unnamed nobility.

As marriage developed, it became a patriarchal tool of subjugation, whereby a man would control and own a subordinate wife and family. However, this was the lesser purpose for its spread; evil preferred marriage because it formed the lower rungs of a ladder justifying hierarchy throughout a society. Children who grew up under an authoritarian father, with a mother on the next rung down, and older siblings on the rung beneath, controlled by physical and emotional abuse or coercion, were more prepared to accept the pyramid style of authority offered by a king and nobility or an oligarchy operating under any number of masks. As they stepped into adult society, children knew subconsciously to position themselves at the bottom of the pyramid, through years of training under the absolute rule of the father, head of household and owner of the family. They knew also to viciously resist those of their “siblings”—in adult life, fellow members of the lower classes—who would threaten a rebellion that would get “daddy” mad and result in collective punishment for everyone, from bad moods to beatings (metaphorized to riot police shooting or tear gassing a crowd, police harrassment of African-American neighborhoods, et cetera).

America provided a pressure release valve of capitalism—mostly deceptive, as the majority of wealth remained passed down through inheritance, but occasionally useful for individuals so extraordinary in ability, combined with situational luck, that to use the older methods might have caused a rebellion and a genuine power shift. By allowing these aberrations to join the ranks of the elites (or alternatively, to spend poorly and fade their own lines out in a generation or a few), the system could be perpetuated further.

In the postmodern wunderland of Christ-timed century 21, marriage shifted to become an economic compact between the sexes, whereby various legal and financial passports were granted to those who participated in it. A tax benefit, property consolidation, shared lawsuit vulnerability, and shared medical treatment access allowed two individuals to join themselves economically and socially in an indication of trust that relieved the capitalist friction against reproduction. This friction is caused by the fact that capitalism disincentivizes reproduction: individuals in American society are forced to bear solely almost all the economic burden of perpetuating the species from which all society’s members arose. Investing in a unit of offspring which also shares a 50% contribution of another’s investment, then, is a risky proposition without marriage, because once you have mixed your genetic material with another’s, you can be blackmailed through the use of your worry of losing your initial investment by your business partner, who can then “pull out of the deal” and force you to validate their own investment by raising the child that is also your investment, without them having to contribute anything. This is the rude “victory” of successful rape or domineering sexual relationships: the imposition of a 50% investment on one who must then bear the operating expenses of the venture from the conclusion of intercourse forward.

Capitalism’s pressure release valve, to allow the system to escape collapse, is the inadequate patch of child support payments or shared custody, which offer—as mentioned—inadequate relief, but nonetheless, greater reassurance to those considering the investment. On a related subject, laws which attempt to restrict abortion are not generally motivated by morals, but instead, are economic in nature, seeking to shift even more of the burden of maintaining the species onto women. By forcing women to bear children, or making it tend away from choice and toward mandate, the negotiation table is slanted further in favor of men. This forces more of the costs of maintaining the species onto women, and additionally, provides an incentive for women to seek protection from men (generally those of the older generation; again, a tendency of antilife), thereby subjugating their will, finances and freedom, in part or in whole, to such protectors. It’s not religious insanity that drives “Pro Life”; it’s wicked, cunning, very clever economic planning (more later).

This “cold” equation in looking at the wonder of new life is the necessary, though generally subconscious, kin to reproduction under capitalism, and it is why marriage is (and has ever been, in mercantilist societies, and especially among the wealthy and conservative) promoted as an absolutely necessary precondition to children. Alternate legal and social mandates can be arranged to perform this function, but much as with standard voting rules for corporate common stock traded on national exchanges, the provision of generalized marriage mores allows more efficient trading to occur.

In so maintaining marriage, however, this created “single units” which, like all other entities in the zero-sum game of capitalism, must work against other entities in the struggle to succeed. (Supra economic genetic bonding structures, usually religious on their faces, can loosely consolidate married or sole entities into greater collectives that operate the same way on a larger scale.) Ergo, marriage is (yet another) harmful component of “the system,” or rather, the antilife structures animating society in such a way as to perpetuate a deathly order; the zero-sum jungle of monetary eat or be eaten that represses hope, chance and life. And that’s the nice side of marriage as it stands now, leaving in the past the history of chattel slavery, socially acceptable child rape and all the rest.

So, marriage has a sordid history and everything about it isn’t perfect now. Notwithstanding that, when an adult finds him or herself living in such a society, the economic, legal, social and medical benefits conferred by marriage are a plus, and within the awful system, it’s only “fair” (if anything in such a society can be called fair) to allow an individual to marry whoever he or she wishes. Yes, society benefits from children, and yes, Britney Spears was allowed to get married and not have any, while homosexual couples may well do a better overall job on average in the raising of adopted or artificially inseminated ones. That is all beside the point. The very problem with the “gay marriage issue” is that it is an artificial, non-threatening issue. It is, in itself, another pressure release valve.

To cite popular culture, this is a “perceiving the Matrix” situation. The ways that evil destroys and dominates the human societies of the world are basic: evil seeks the poisoned, murdered death of the species. Even now, as it has been doing for hundreds of years, evil works busily at slaughtering and starving people in various currently-appropriate portions of the world, and dumping poison and waste in various other currently-appropriate portions of the world. More on this in part 2 of the previously-linked essay, which is forthcoming, but in preview form, the great nations of the world are heartily engaged in mass post-industrial butchery in certain places, clever economic mass starvation games in others, the enactment of repressive laws elsewhere, and the massive creation and dissemination of artificial chemical and nuclear wastes that poison human and animal habitats in ways that cannot be fixed for millions of years.

As the neck of this planet’s life is slowly encircled by skeletal fingers, living humans are controlled in a variety of ways to limit their ability to defend themselves and their future. Those being killed and starved in impoverished or war-stricken corners of the world are obviously being affected; those already poisoned or ground under are no present threat that the elite managers recognize. However, what of those few who still remain as educated, informed citizens, not currently charged with crimes or imprisoned, who might theoretically do something to change things?

These troublesome entities are controlled in a beguiling way: they are given easy, non-threatening problems to solve. Of course, to make these problems believable, they have to appear to be big, domineering, major ones; yet, they cannot actually be the actual problems, which is to say, they cannot interfere much with the ultimate agenda.

One such of these problems in history is the Magna Carta issue: the Magna Carta, dating back to 1215 A.D., involves the weighty demand that the British King only punish freemen based on the “law of the land.” The law of the land was wholly controlled by the British nobility, but this is still heralded as a grand achievement. And naturally, these great rights didn’t apply to serfs. And also naturally, the nobles and judges all did what they would’ve done anyway; they just had to justify it as “legal” rather than “by the will of the throne” (much like the U.S. Supreme Court just invalidated the Revolutionary War by codifying the right of police to enter and search homes without a warrant). Repression, massacre and waste continued under a slightly-altered guise. But, much like the succession of Obama to the position of Mass Killer of the Children of Various Middle Eastern Places was heralded as some manner of achievement, the “achievement” of the Magna Carta is still regarded (by those controlling the publishing and dissemination of western history curriculum, nach) as such.

The 20^th century, and some of the 21^st, saw Americans distracted by various other issues: racism against African-Americans, and discrimination against women. Yes, humans of (more recent) African descent, and female humans, should not be mistreated due to these characteristics, but the only reason the conflict exists is to distract us from the greater danger.

There will always be a harmless crusade to go off on—always a windmill to fight while evil slaughters and poisons.

The parasites who control the great states toward our ultimate destruction can easily absorb the end results of these insubstantial changes. These changes are not “insubstantial” because it doesn’t matter if African-Americans, or women, or any other group, minority or majority, are treated with respect or fairness. Rather, they’re insubstantial because the only reason that group was being treated unfairly to begin with was to create an easily-solveable problem to keep the middle class occupied for a few more decades. Economic tensions, along with subtle cues from managing elites, do nicely to cause lower class individuals to funnel their anger at losing out toward whatever group is next on the approved list: the British, blacks, Yankees, Rebels, Chinese, Vietnamese, Germans, gays, Arabs...who's up next? Stay tuned.

Evil is just fine with African-Americans being treated the same as other Americans. There is no threat there. The plan of death and destruction continues unabated. African-Americans can join the Army and kill Arabs. Right now, it’s cause for celebration, or maybe light consternation for some “gol-durned liberals,” to murder and torture Arabs and/or muslims. In a few years, maybe a big new movement will sweep the country to fight against anti-hashemitic or anti-Muslim discrimination. Great! In fifty years, maybe America will have an openly Muslim Arab president spearheading the firebombing of China or France.

What reward is it (or will it be) for African-Americans to dodge Jim Crow laws so that the majority of that population can then end up in lower class, economically-threatened America? Not much—ask Martin Luther King (in a fantastic speech that bears reading—the elites killed him for being a famous public figure willing to actually say something like this).

What reward is it (or will it be) for American women to get the “right” to be treated just the same as American men? To serve in the killing forces? To become part of the exploitative, manipulative, soul-crushing, runoff dumping corporate world? To struggle for jobs and health care?

What reward will it be for America’s gays to get to be “just like everyone else”? (Or whichever the next group is on the corporate-approved cycle of “let’s take a few decades and gradually work through this particular issue.”)

This, ultimately, will be the fate of fighting the ridiculous, illogical, stupid, money-wasting anti-gay laws and customs: gays will end up being treated just like everyone else. I.e., equal cogs in the machine of endless death. As soon as gay prejudice is eliminated within the system, it will be replaced by something else. Equal rights for Muslims, equal rights for Arabs, equal rights for agnostics, equal rights for the short, the slender, or anything else. “Equal rights,” in the land of mass homicide, profitable “health care,” poison dumping and improved cruise missile fin design, is a bitter, if not a poisoned, pill to swallow.

And this is why the glorious struggle for gay marriage is, ultimately, a sad thing. Fighting vigorously for gay marriage, within the confines of this system, is part of the process; it’s solving the safe little puzzle that they want you to solve, which is why they aren’t putting you in Guantanamo or making you disappear for trying to solve it. It’s not a threat to them—it’s exactly what they want you to do. And being happy when they give you the cheese at the end (because this battle over gay marriage will be won, as part of a predictable process of slow pressure release that began with AIDS awareness and moved on to Clinton’s DADT, Obama’s repeal thereof, and increasing incremental steps toward full acceptance), not only validates the evil at the end, but is a necessary step in setting up the hatred and prejudice that will be granted to the next subset of human beings placed on the discrimination table.

Is there an answer? Is there a way out? Life is the way. Life in all its wonderful randomness and vagary, including unrestrained sexuality. Maybe evil will win (and it certainly will if all resistant energies are spent on false crusades), but even if you have to eat the biscuit out of its hand, don’t let them make you like it. Don’t let them make you proud that you earned it for doing their tricks.