Limit 3 - Enjoy Responsibly

So I'm thinking about selling these neon signs. They're bright, cute, stylish, and have very good advice on them. Look at how nice they would look in your local hospital.

If you don't know why I would suggest a "Limit 3" policy on children, or have already overindulged in breeding, you are--how can I put this nicely?--ignorant? uneducated? living under a rock? out of touch with reality? a slave to your hormones? an egotistical narcissist? without natural restraint? fanatically religious? or maybe just irresponsible? Take your pick.

It may not be your fault. Anyone who has condemned your views or behavior may not have articulated the crisis we are coming to. But as a citizen of this planet, you have access to the same information everyone else does, and overpopulation warnings have been coming forth for hundreds of years, and the evidence of a failing society is all around us. The solution to the plan is not popping out more babies.

When an animal species overpopulates an area, they don't all die off of starvation immediately. It takes a while. As the highest life form on the planet, humans have insulated themselves from this catastrophe, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. It manifests itself in many ways.
Poor education.
Collapsing economy.
Stratification of wealth.
Rising crime rates.
Lowering of life expectancy.
Competition for employment.
Devaluing of college educations.
Wars.
Disease.
And the list goes on.

Compare a list of the poorest countries in the world with the highest fertility rates and you'll find a direct correlation. America is in the middle of the stack of countries, but immigration is bringing the third world's problems to our doorstep. But immigration is a topic for another day. We can set the example of self-restraint here and hope it catches on. Otherwise, someday we could be looking at government-enforced restriction. It has happened before and will happen again.

Sometimes the system is self-correcting, but that is usually very painful. 3% of the world's population died in World War II. Then what happened? The biggest economic revival the world has ever known, the longest life-expectancies, and of course the biggest population boom in history. Even in defeated Germany and Japan, economies surged. It was not socialist policies or even the war bonds that brought us out of the Great Depression, but the staggering loss of life and lack of competition. We would still be in the Great Depression today if not for it.

What about your day-to-day families? People die. Single-parenting is hard with however many kids you have, but 6? Crazy hard unless you're infringing on the rights of your eldest to take care of your youngest. Why should they be responsible for your decisions? Unemployment happens. If you aren't able to help all your many kids through college, you are dooming most of them to a life of debt or uneducation. That may not always have been true but it is now.

Don't take my word for it. Read a book or two. National Geographic does overpopulation articles frequently. The world went from 1 billion to 7 billion in the last 200 years. It has doubled in size since your grandparents were born. Negative growth has its own undesirable consequences, but believe me, we are not in danger of that. The perfect way to be is a little growth. Limit 3. Take it to heart.

And for you religious nuts, when God said to be fruitful and multiply, he was talking to a population of 2 people!

Thinking Outside the Bastard's Birth

Let's call it Throwback Thursday or something. Yes, this is an old topic that people just kind of forgot about.

Do some research into those layers if you don't know what I'm talking about. And don't accept the OCR excuse. Has anyone ever found what program raped the file and duplicated the results? Nope. After admitting that the file was heavily edited, accidentally or not, has the White House released a new one? Nope.

Could be the biggest scandal in American history, swept under the rug.

We Need a Logo

Say what you want about the LGBT community, but they're organized and have good marketing.

The other side doesn't even have a name. Just homophobes or anti-LGBT. Well that's not gonna fly anymore. I've been using a term for a while now, I call myself a Gender Normalist. To be hip, you can call yourself a G-Norm. It means that, though there are whole ranges of masculinity and femininity in the human race, ultimately a man is supposed to be a man and a woman a woman. Also, of course, a man and a woman belong together or stay single, no homosexuality. No, this does not mean a man can't be into fashion and a girl into trucks. This does not appoint a housekeeper and a bread-winner. But I can tell you who should naturally have softer features and play to those strengths, and who shouldn't train themselves to have a sexy, sassy lisp. There are norms. A normal is a straight line going from the origin to a curve and making a right angle to the skewed tangent. Normalization is conforming and aligning to the line.

It's very logical, mathematical, and symbolic. No religion is required. If you want to have some in there, that's fine, but it is not the basis of the movement. That causes division between atheists and Christians with similar views, and freakshows like Westboro pop up, derailing the whole thing.

So I made a logo. I'm open to others, but something had to be done. The LGBT community has a slew of them: the upside down triangle, the equal sign, and they even stole the freaking rainbow from graphic designers everywhere.

So next time there's some made up holiday and you're supposed to post a picture to your facebook profile, try this one. When someone asks, talk about the movement to address and treat a rampant personality disorder that is destroying society. It's a legitimate position to take, and cannot be silenced. Maybe we need a tagline. Here's an idea: "I'm not so concerned about gay rights, but is anyone addressing all of the gay wrongs?"

Keep your head up, and maybe we can swing this thing.

Building a Better Insult

The LGBT community has like, two words they can use on you if you're a gender-normalist, or anti-LGBT. And use them they will. To death.

I thought I'd define some words real quick to enlighten you and them to their true meanings.

Homophobe - A person who is afraid they might be gay, or a person who is afraid they will be perceived by others as gay. Honest to goodness, that is the original definition right out of psychology of the 1960s. And if you don't believe the origin, at least the definition makes sense, since gender-normalists don't fear homosexuality at all, nor have phobias of any kind. It goes back to the mental disorder thing, and I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I is no longer going to fly, which has been going on for years. Every person who comes out against gays is instantly scrutinized in their own same-sex relationships and allegations are made as to their intimacy. Why would I say, "Being gay is fine and dandy. If you don't think so, maybe you're gay (which is fine and dandy)." No logic to that one.

Bigot - A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion. Is that a bad thing? Heaven forbid people should stand up for what they believe in, and usually the person uttering this word is the worst offender. Who is losing their jobs over the LGBT crap? The normalists, that's who. But if you want to know why this word supposedly hurts, it's because it sounds so much like "faggot." I'm serious, listen to how people say it exactly the same way. This is the same logic as before. They are using their own condition as an insult. Madness I tell you.

Idiot - Someone who uses all their fancy words in one go, having no idea how lame they sound.

Insult - A statement that truly hurts. Let me show you a few classics that really cut to the heart.

Faggot
Fairy
Bulldyke
Disease-ridden freak of nature
You take it in the ass
You consistently smell like shit

I mean, those are good insults. But you know, sticks and stones.

About the Author

Hi, this is Jay Roman Bleu. Welcome to my blog. Here I will hopefully be putting my opinions on a regular basis in an effort to make the world a better place. They will hopefully be packaged in a humorous and artistic way, but they will be controversial.

Let's be honest: totally free speech is a myth. Already I have received death threats and unemployment threats for my beliefs, and frankly I'm scared of those people, so that is why there is a layer of anonymity here. As you can see, the portrait is a tad touched up: I have given myself a mustache.

Topics will hopefully reflect what are the popular issues in the nation today, or what's getting under my skin. I am a Gender Normalist, a Formerly-Christian Atheist, and a Kantian Deontologist, among other things, so I'll start with some of that. I live by the motto, "Perfection of self, happiness of others, and the occasional humbling of obnoxious jerks." The first two are by Kant, the third is what this site is about, but they all go together.

Enjoy,
JRB

Pick and Choose

The Christians are getting wishy-washy these days, undermining the authority of their holy book if it goes against the liberal majority and the pulpit. Soon it will be swallowed up completely by the world it tried so hard to distance itself from. I'll have mixed feelings about seeing it go.

Let's call it what it is, shall we?

Wouldn't it be absurd to celebrate other personality disorders?

Oh, you view it differently? A fundamental dissatisfaction with the gender you were born into speaks volumes about your state of mind. You're a guy, but you want to be a gal? Back in the day when psychiatry didn't cater to politics, and in its most technical definitions today, you'd be considered a nut.