500 YEARS FROM NOW LOOKING BACK

We’ve all studied and read about human history on earth. We have been amused by early man’s attempt to understand his environment and his use of witch doctors to deal with pain and sickness. As our history moved forward, mankind moved forward too, or so it seemed. We learned to cook our food and to kill germs, but we also decided that some women were witches. What did we do? Well we burned them at the stake or we just drowned them in the nearest pond. We did what we had to do to rid ourselves of the scourge of witchcraft.

It’s fairly easy now for us, the enlightened ones, to look back and laugh at the ignorance of early man. After all, we have had the advantage of science and technology to give us clarity. Well, one would think it easy until we learn of an attempt by a school board in Delaware to allow students of any age to choose either or both their sexual identity or their race. Regulation 225 calls for official records on a student’s race or gender to be sealed from parents allowing them to be “transracial” and “gender fluid” at school without “interference” from their home life. Pretty cute, huh?

Basically this means that kids as young as five or six can decide they would rather be of a different race or gender than the gender or race of their birth. And this policy further allows the school district to allow this choice without the parents knowing anything about it. Their reasoning is that some parents are so stupid they just wouldn’t understand or support little Johnny’s wish to be little Joanie or that a youngster born to black parents would rather be Chinese or caucasian. It appears, according to this policy, that one’s gender or race is a matter of choice rather than a fact of birth. Where does stupidity like this come from?

California, not to be outdone by anyone on the “political correctness” front, has decided that only having two choices of gender is unfair. Henceforth they have declared one may choose any number of possible genders, I guess depending on the time of day or whatever. They opine that your gender at birth is irrelevant and that it is all a matter of choice. Also your choice of public restrooms should be left to you and no one else. I can see it now. High school boys and girls showering together and using the same bathrooms. What could possibly go wrong?

Let us now fast forward some five hundred years as future generations look back on their history which is our present. First of all I think it is presumptuous of me to believe there will be future generations the way we are going now. But, assuming somehow mankind survives our current stupidity, perhaps there will be people to look back and study their heritage. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall as they giggle and laugh at the ignorance of twenty-first century man? They will probably see us as we sometimes see our early ancestors. They will probably pause in amazement at “political correctness” and its destructive power. They may well ask, what could these morons possibly have been thinking? With all the technology available to them, they chose instead to be ignorant. They could have accomplished so much. They apparently decided instead to make everything political and throw natural science out of the window. One has to wonder how mankind survived such ignorance.

Well, back to the present. I am amazed. I am amazed that so-called intelligent people like those administering our schools can even lace up their shoes. I remember John Wayne’s immortal words, “Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if you’re stupid.”

Ron Scarbro