Soundbites

Soundbites are quick chunks o' rant for the attention-span impaired. If you click on one of the purple soundbites, it will take you to a full-length essay on the same topic.

Abstinence is a fucking waste.

What is a "good" child? A quiet child. An obediant child. And then we're amazed at generations of sheeplike adults? They're just doing what they've been trained to do.

Most of our problems stem from the fact that certain areas of human endeavour have been given over wholly to tradition and impulse. Society tells us that it is wicked and heartless, for instance, to consider the question of who we shall sleep with rationally, without regard to the conventionality of the outcome.

In Denmark they legalized pornography and child sexual assault has been down ever since. In Sweden they make contraception and sex ed. readily available to teens, and their rate of unwanted pregnancy is one of the lowest in the world. We've known all this for years, and yet we keep trying to solve America's sexual woes by doing the opposite. Why? Because the churches have made it taboo to apply rational thought to sexual politics.

I don't even remotely see why a parent should have the right to decide that a child shall not learn this, or be kept ignorant of that. A child is an entire separate human being, with an entire separate set of human rights.

They keep saying that those who don't work shouldn't eat. Why on Earth not? If our economy depends on having eight million jobless people floating around the place, it's only common courtesy to hand them a can of spaghetti or two in exchange for the sacrafice they've made to keep us all out of the inflation barrel. It might be said that being jobless is their job -- in the eyes of the economists they play an important roll as economic ballast, and they should be rewarded as such.

Masturbation is an excellent releaser of dangerous sexual frustrations, and I cannot think of one single reason why it should not be taught in schools (except of course for the religious one, which in a state-run school is invalid.) Anyone who is against teaching an acceptance of masturbation is for earlier and earlier premarital sex, whether they want to admit it or not.

It's no use saying that a cat or a dog or a cow has a right to a 'natural' life. Domestication causes identifiable physical and genetic changes in animals in as little as a few generations. The natural habitat of the domestic dog is a human home. That is what the dog has evolved for.

American schools, both public and private are wholly designed and implemented to train people into a certain socially acceptable pattern of stupidity. Smart people are smart in spite of their education, not because of it.