"Stop the world I want to get off": RT Article on Entertainment, society's moral fiber and government's role...

Stop the world, I want to get off

27 May, 2009, 14:20

Today, the global village is suffering the stiff penalty of capitalism run amok. But will our increasingly homogeneous culture also blow a tire down the road due to unregulated lifestyles?

Pick up the newspaper or switch on the television and you will find immediate confirmation that reality is certainly stranger than fiction. In fact, it almost proves Norman Mailer’s famous prediction that the psychopath might well become the dominant personality type in the very near future.

Consider the case of Thomas Beatie, for example, a former woman who is now a happily pregnant man. Impossible you say? Not in these days.

“Beatie was impregnated with sperm from a donor,” ABC News reported. “His wife, Nancy, inseminated him at home with a device she said was like a syringe without the needle. They bought it from a veterinarian and it is typically used to feed birds… He has an intact vagina, but he did not say how he would deliver the baby.”

Thomas, whose birth name was Tracy, felt that he was trapped in the wrong body when he was in his 20s. Apparently, psychoanalysis failed and Beatie had his breasts removed, subscribed to testosterone injections, and even managed to grow the semblance of a beard.

But Beatie decided to keep his female organs right where God originally put them because he hoped to someday “have a biological child.” Wife Nancy is infertile.

In light of such stories we might be forgiven for asking: What the hell is going on? Are there no limits to how far we can go anymore? Should we remain tolerant of every single lifestyle, or is there some magic moment when screaming “ENOUGH!” is appropriate? Are all traditions, however noble and well-intended, meant to be broken?

Should the world of culture take notes from the economic crisis?

Many Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, argue that the state has no right to tell us how to live our lives. Fun-loving liberals demand that government ‘stays out of our bedrooms (at the same time, incidentally, they flaunt their dubious lifestyles at every public venue),’ while the stern conservatives say ‘leave our businesses alone.’ Only when things go flying off the rails do we turn to the government on bleeding knees to rescue us.

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