Guest post: Human life is still fundamentally a biological concern
Originally a comment by Artymorty on It’s like voting to annul gravity.
It’s like voting to annul gravity. Gravitation is never going to be brought to book, or appear in the dock. The world won’t give a shit, and people will keep falling down, even if you do lock up everyone who points this out unfortunate fact. Punishing the people who know how reality works, and arresting those who “calls it as they sees it” is all they’ll be able manage.
This kind of thing has happened before. Stalin’s regime decreed that natural selection was invalid. They rounded up all the geneticists and killed them or sent them to the gulags. They set about restructuring the nation’s agriculture around communist ideals instead of genetic facts (e.g., crops of the same species should be kept together because they’re of the same “class” and are therefore prone to cooperate and share resources; planting sensitive crops in hostile climates will teach their offspring to become hardier, etc). As a result, about 40 million people died of famine.
The communists hated natural selection because it told them they didn’t have control over their bodies — genetics is not meritocratic; it’s based entirely on inheritance: you are made of what your mother and father gave you, and your genetic makeup will have a profound impact on how your life will play out. No amount of hard work or noble intentions can change that.
This is directly analogous to the gender cult, which hates biological sex because it’s undemocratic: you have no say in what sex you’re born into. You’re one sex or the other, and your sex will have a profound impact on how your life will play out. No amount of gender-bending or hormone injecting can change that.
Humans are mammals. Human life is ultimately the dominion of natural selection and sexual reproduction. It seems the more complicated human society becomes, the more we try to wrestle control away from the cold, hard facts of biology. In some ways we are beating the system: medicine, law, democracy, art, education… these are things that make being alive a lot more enjoyable to endure — for us humans at least. (We’re not making life very pleasant for the other species on the planet.) But human life is still fundamentally a biological concern, and sex is at the very core of our biology. We can do all sorts of things to make life more comfortable, but we can’t change the nature of life itself. You’re born a mix of your parents’ genes; you’re born one sex or the other; you reproduce based on the principles of genetics and sex; then you die. Hopefully you got to have a nice time and see a beautiful sunrise while you were alive. That’s what life is. Even if we wanted to change these fundamentals, we’re not going to get anywhere by making declarations and rounding up all the naysayers. If the gender cultists really want to unshackle themselves from the burdens of biological sex, I wish they’d go off and put their efforts into something like transhumanism, and leave the rest of us to live our lives in peace until they find a way to upload all our consciousnesses into their agender utopian Matrix.
All true. Let’s stay human, and find how to love our birth bodies. Here’s my tongue-in-cheek reply to a certain Dylan Mulvaney about What is a Meadow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOuW3ULLDA&t=9s
It was weird that I saw immediately that transhumanism is a cargo-cult belief, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of both human consciousness and the way computers work; but I was taken in by the gender cult for years. But then, I’m autistic, and it seems that the genderists have tailored their gospel to appeal particularly to those who are autistic and/or same-sex attracted.
When you don’t fit into society, when you are incapable by your very nature of following the rules, when you are receiving a constant barrage of messages that you are broken in some way, it’s appealing to be told by a group “It’s OK, we know exactly what is wrong, we love the real you and we can fix you so you can fit in!” Whether the group is a more traditional evangelical religion or the gender cult, they all seek to separate their victims from both our own bodies, and those who are immune to their wiles and could help us to accept that it’s not we who are broken, but a wider society which is stubbornly intolerant of difference, marriage equality and disability laws not withstanding.
I count myself extremely fortunate that I was saved twice in my life; from Catholicism by atheists, and from genderism by biological realists; particularly here, at B&W.
Weirdly, it was PZ Myers’ blog which saved me from Catholicism, and yet have come out swinging on the side of the gender cult. Weird that they knew exactly how people maintain a belief in Christianity by protecting themselves from paying any attention to contrary views, but cannot see that they are doing exactly the same thing with genderism.