I was just thinking the other day that it isn't safe or politically correct to celebrate anything anymore, because obviously you will be offending someone somewhere, no matter how innocuous the day, I'm sure even Groundhog's Day must tick off the animal rights community no end. Columbus ruined his day by apparently being a genocidal maniac. I need not even mention the scandal that is Christmas. In the US we just celebrated Mother's Day this past weekend, but I wonder how long it will last. Father's Day is inappropriate and insensitive for all the fatherless children and single mothers of the world and because it celebrates men of all things, therefore it is obviously anti-woman (as some would reason it). But what do you do with Mother's Day in light of the gender-transition movement? I've heard the UK is moving to strike 'mother' from it's medical jargon as an offensive term just in case the expectant parent happens to identify as male or something else. As if that weren't confusing enough, motherhood itself is becoming rather a questionable pastime in our modern west.
I struggle personally with the holiday, having been raised by an abusive mother who once questioned my methodology in requesting a hug and later in my struggles with infertility and adoption, but I don't think we should quit honoring other women just because it is acutely painful to me, but there are many that think differently, either because they have likewise been injured by their own mothers or are unable to have children for a variety of reasons, understandable but selfish, or because they consider children at best a hobby or a nuisance and at worst a plague upon humanity. I find it a rather chilling side-effect of modern culture that the very foundational stones of civilization (people) are becoming less important than our domestic animals. The pet section at your local big box store is likely bigger than the baby section. I'm fine with people having pets, but when those pets have a more socially acceptable place in society than kids, it becomes rather worrisome!
How many people do you know that have foregone having kids and instead 'adopt a fur baby?' Few people see anything wrong with loving a dog, but a growing number are seeing something wrong with even wanting kids in the first place. But the hard irony is that there wouldn't be people around to love dogs if previous generations hadn't also loved kids. This isn't to beat up on the pet industry, I could as easily go on with examples from other lifestyle choices like traveling or skiing or any other human endeavor. What it comes down to is the robot's worldview from 'The Matrix' is slowly coming true: humanity is a disease that is ravaging the planet. The grand irony is that the robots were the bad guys in that film but a growing number of people seem to be agreeing with them, ergo having kids is akin to destroying the world and therefore a selfish and heartless endeavor, much better to commit suicide as a species and enjoy our innocuous pleasures in the moment and feel smugly proud of that fact and socially shame anyone who thinks otherwise. How long will Mother's Day last? The more important concern is how long will civilization last with such an attitude?
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