In its obsessions with thought control and with having the state control and sexualize children, today’s political Left is effectuating precisely what the two seminal, anti-totalitarian novels of the last century warned against.
The Biden administration is at the vanguard of this radical Left.
In their Friday editorial, the Washington Examiner editors explain just how monstrous are the administration’s policy initiatives related to gender transitions for children . Please read it — every word. I write here just to note how the state-sponsored transgender craze and the related insistence on having public school teachers force approved gender ideology on young students, and otherwise hypersexualize them, is almost frighteningly similar to the nightmare described by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World.
“Outside, in the garden, it was playtime,” begins the book’s third chapter . “Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns … or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs.”
Then the “Director” of the school pointed out what he called “a charming little group”: “In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focused attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.”
They were interrupted by howls from a different little boy being led away by a nurse. Asked what was wrong, the nurse said: “It’s just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play. … I’m taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology.”
The director turned to his visitors and explained that for a “very long time” before modern enlightenment, “erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!). … A look of astonished incredulity appeared on the faces of his listeners. Poor little kids not allowed to amuse themselves? They could not believe it.”
The director astonished them further by saying that even for adolescents, the only approved sexual activity in those earlier times was “a little surreptitious auto-eroticism and homosexuality.”
Later in the same chapter, those in charge of the mass-institutional living arrangements in this brave world sneer in contemptuous horror about the former, by-then-ancient, practice of “living with one’s family” in a “home.” What, pray tell, was that? “A few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls.”
Back then, the Left claimed Huxley’s dystopia misrepresented its aims. Today’s Left avidly pursues those aims, with the all-knowing state sexualizing children and undermining the family unit while telling parents to butt out.
Biden embraces this idea, as former New York Lt. Gov. Betsey McCaughey noted in a recent column. Biden, she wrote, “told a gathering of teachers and union bigwigs on April 27 that the kids are ‘yours when they’re in the classroom.’ That wasn’t just a Biden stumble. He repeated it for emphasis: ‘They are all our children. … They are not somebody else’s [read: the parents’] children.'”
Combine this with Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board , which is aptly compared to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s novel 1984, and the Left’s wholesale support for campus speech police and “cancel culture” (also reminiscent of Orwell), and the awful trend is clear. Look from Bidenite fact to fiction, and fiction to fact, and “ already it [is] impossible to say which [is] which .”
* Article from: The Washington Examiner
