Hell and Water
10th February 2025
Believing that Trump (ironically, one of the two most pro-gay presidents in American history) wants to kill or imprison homosexual couples gives meaning to their lives. A perverse meaning, to be sure, but meaning nonetheless. Strangely, this desire to be oppressed only happens in a decent and tolerant society.
If this were the 1950s America or a Muslim country today, this lesbian couple couldn’t afford their beliefs. In a similar fashion, children of super-rich people who are secular tend to be Marxists because they can afford nonsense beliefs that spiritually fulfill them.
Now, modern Marxism (Wokism) doesn’t make people very happy. Wokists are similar to the most miserable type of Christian imaginable, one constantly hating this or that group of people. I recall in Angela’s Ashes a Catholic in Ireland watched a lovely Protestant family enjoying Christmas Eve through a window as he was working as a mailman. Watching a happy Protestant family celebrating Christmas day, he thought to himself, “How can these Protestants be so happy? Don’t they know they are going to hell?”