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Free Love & STDs
I’ve been mining this one conspiracy article lately that I’d like to formally recommend. It’s called The Social Scientific Dictatorship: The Role of the Social Sciences in the Mechanization of Mankind. There is so much information to digest there that the only way I can really do it is by carving it off into little chunks. Here’s another one that I’d like to put out into the open air and see where it goes:
Freedom followed by Draconian control became the dialectic of all revolutions, and, in this regard, the sexual revolution was no exception. Once the passions were liberated from obedience to the traditional moral law as explicated by the Christian religion, they had to be subjected to another more stringent, perhaps “scientific” form of control in order to keep society from falling apart.
The “freedom” they are referring to here of course is the sexual revolution, which through free love and other associated ideas and practices managed to more or less obliterate traditional notions of not only sexuality, but also gender and social roles. And the more stringent and scientific means of controlling people’s sexuality would then be an obsession with sexually transmitted diseases and the great enemy of AIDS. Thus we see the explosion of Safe Sex in the 1980’s and onward.
This seems to tie in well with my recent explorations of the philosophy behind materialism, where I said:
… you can’t see, touch, feel or measure interior states.
But you can measure things that appear in our common material reality. We can all agree that there are twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, and so on. Measurement, in its purest sense, is entirely democratic, because the same data is available to and easily provable to anyone. Anyone can get the same results, and thus materialism becomes the new standard of truth and objectivity.
The connection point would seem to be that, traditionally, sexuality was controlled by religious taboos. Sin. But in the new culture that was being created where if you couldn’t see it and measure it, sin (an interior state) is meaningless, as is guilt. But disease is perfect because it’s totally tangible and measurable. Thus it becomes the new taboo to control sexual energy within the new civic religion of scientific-materialism. It is the new demon, the new stigma, the new Scarlet Letter. That’s not to say it’s an unreal or not valid thing to concern yourself with though, as it most certainly is. But it sure does a good job of filling you up with fear and guilt and helps restrict your behavior, doesn’t it?
July 31st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
back in the 80’s,when the fear of aids started scaring people into monogamy,i became really determined not to let it restrict me from living out all of my wildest desires….in the early 90’s there was a feeling of” now there is proof that sleeping around is bad because it can kill you” ……don’t buy into it…… many things that we all do all day long could kill us……….and i assume that most of you have heard the various theories of how and why aids came to be……..
July 31st, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Yes, and the one that I think is probably most popular is something like: black people caught it by having sex with monkeys, and then gay people caught it and spread it to everyone else. Which is as loaded of an origin story as you could possibly have, since it attacks deviant cultural practices and minorities all at once.
Unless you were referring to the alternate theories about it being the product of govt labs, or else HIV not being the cause of AIDS at all. Both of which are equally interesting as well.
August 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
i was referring to the theory that it was a manufactured disease,part of experiments that the govt is screwing around with,(a la the constant gardener),so that the pharm cos can then make $$$$$$,etc.bla bla bla………..which is just one of the many reasons to stay away from manufactured drugs………i could go off on this for hours,but i must go and work……..bhc
August 1st, 2006 at 3:23 pm
The sexual revolution was only so much of a revolution. We don’t see people having sex with monkeys, sheep, etc. as perfectly normal. If anything it was a mere swing on the pendulum to loosen things up a bit.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Right, it seems like more of a re-drawing of the boundary lines to accomodate a somewhat looser social order, rather than a total explosion of all possible sexual practices…
August 1st, 2006 at 7:10 pm
But there really are diseases you can get from sex. Many of these diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis and whatnot, have been around for a real long time. Surely you don’t think the Black Iron Prison folks just made up the idea of STDs?
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Proof of concept. Nothing to see here folks.