A tale told by an idiot
Modern life is a tale told by an idiot;
flat-chested, crop-headed, chemicalised women, of indeterminate sex,
and wimbly-wambly young men, of sex still more indeterminate,
and hygienic babies in huge hulks of coffin-like perambulators—
The great social idiot, it must be confessed,
tells dull, meaningless, disgusting tales,
and repeats himself like the flushing of a W.C.1
Life is fecund, but far too much of modern life is sterile. The external manifestations of the modern zeitgeist are particularly visible in the interplay between the sexes, and in the ways each sex behave. Both men and women are becoming increasingly androgynous. In the animal kingdom, aside from rare genetic deformities, all beings are sexed. All that is alive has defined gender. Only that which is not alive, namely machines, are without gender. By becoming more androgynous, humanity becomes more like machines. The genetic defects that were once so rare in the animal kingdom are becoming increasingly common in humans. It is possible that certain pervasive chemicals are making both men and women neuter, chemical eunuchs. This is a great travesty if it can be confirmed, and is one of the great reasons why the air, water, and ground need to be cleaned up. If we continue on the current path, we can only say along with Lawrence that “I believe the race of men is dying out: nothing left but women, eunuchs, and Robots.”2
And the way things are going, there will only be eunuchs and robots. Contemporary gender theories and transhumanism are complete insanity and are a direct road to Hell. This is because modern man has made a Faustian pact with the Machine and tied his ego to technological “advancements.” As Thomas Merton writes:
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