A Quick Update On The Collapse Of Civilization
Greetings all, Steve here. Just a quick update on the impending implosion of Western civilization. It seems to me that this falls into two basic catagories: Things that are actually happening and things that people only think are happening. In the first catagory you’d find things like Global warming, deforestation, ethnic and religious violence and environmental collapse. In the other category, you’d find things like gay marriage.
Now, I’m not totally sure why people who tend to believe in the latter category believe in the first. It seems to me to be a matter of fear. Some people are really genuinely terrified of gay people. I don’t get this. As a group, gay people are not that scary. I mean, gay men know their colours better and are almost completely unlikely to walk around with ketchup stains on their clothes, but basically they’re not that scary. Global warming is scary. It scares the hell out of me. I was talking to a climatology PhD student the other day and she tells me that the debate is over. Global warming is already happening in the North, with species die-off and it’s going to happen everywhere else. This is scary. Gay people, less so. Religious and sectarian violence and terrorism scare me. Gay people not so much. Bombs and war and disease and hatred: Scary. Men who sepdn far too much of their disposable income on cute home decoration: Not as scary.
Only a few months ago, my girlfriend and I moved to Vancouver, the Sna Francisco of the North. This place is like a never-ending Cher concert. We didn’t realize it at the time, but we actually moved into the lesbian part of town. Lots of lesbian couples here. I tell my guy friends back home that it’s a lot less exciting than it sounds. They seem to mainly just walk their dogs a lot.
Here’s the lowdown on gay marriage: Despite our new Prime Minister’s idea that he might want to outlaw gay marriage again, Canada has had gay marriage for a year or so now. As far as I can tell, the only major change that’s happened is that instead of single women in their thirties complaining about all the good men being either married or gay, now they’re both. That’s it. So far, I’m not terrified.