Stealing Europe Part 2

As transgender women are gaining more and more rights, if uterine transplantation were to become a right, male motherhood would not be morally debatable either.

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[…]

Adam

Where are we now? What people's this, what land?

Lucifer

Land, people, are conceptions obsolete.

Was it not small to speak of fatherland?

Was it not with blind prejudice replete?

And did not narrow minds keep it alive?

All of the wide world through which we roam

Henceforth, forever, is all mankind's home,

In one great work all men associate,

One great thought in all minds reverberate,

And o'er the order which throughout obtains,

Science, honored, strict scrutiny maintains.

[...]

Savant

Our one idea is, a livelihood.

When man first came to earth, ages ago,

A well filled larder he found here below,

He had but to reach out his hand, and all

Was his and was within his beckon's call,

He could afford to live in thoughtless ease,

Just as the skipper lives within the cheese;

Had time, adventurous hypotheses

To build up and therein to find the spice

Of life and poetry too, as its prize.

But we must frugal be because we fear

That to our final crumb we're coming near.

And soon our cheese devoured, what follows then?

To starve must be the lot of thoughtless men?

In just four thousand years, it is foretold

The sun will have cooled off, the earth not hold

Life animate and naught on it will grow.

Four thousand years are ours, so much we know.

We'll learn it yet, I have but little doubt

To make a sun anew and live without

[…]

Savant

This one shall a physician be in time,

This one in pastures roam and trees shall climb.

Old Man

Take them away.

(The children are to be taken away, Eve interferes.)

Eve

I earnestly protest!

Who dares to tear my child thus from my breast!

Old Man

Take them away! who dares to disobey?

Eve

My darling child, I nursed thee night and day

With my heart's blood. Where is the brutal heart

Those sacred ties would rend, and dear ones part

Forever. To thee then must I say good-bye.

Lost in the crowd, thee nevermore espy?

Adam

If of all holy feeling not bereft,

Then with its mother let this child be left.

Eve

Ah! yes, 'tis so, thou stranger bless'd!

Induce these men to yield to my request.

Old Man

A daring game thou play'st. If we again

The prejudice of family entertain!

The structure holy science built with care

Is quickly overthrown; therefore beware!

[The Tragedy of Man Imre Madách]

Well, we’ve arrived to the current day. “Was it not small to speak of the fatherland? Was it not with blind prejudice replete? And did not narrow minds keep it alive? All of the wide world through which we roam. Henceforth, forever, is all mankind's home, In one great work all men associate” – incredible… and of course these world saviors made Fourier’s phalanstère a reality. Stalin came along and with him those hundreds of housing complexes that were “scientifically invented”. For instance, without kitchens and dining rooms in apartments, people (families) wouldn’t have to come together every night to eat and chat – because naturally that only causes problems. And the working complexes were made a reality as well, just much more efficiently than Fourier could have dreamed of. They were called Gulags, and if the world had ever seen efficient and cheap labor, that was it.

Furthermore, “If we again The prejudice of family entertain! The structure holy science built with care Is quickly overthrown”. And how true this is. Here’s a fresh example of what has developed with “the holy science”:

“Although there have been few examples of female uterus transplants thus far, the scientific community is already considering whether artificial intervention would be possible. In a study published in the Acta Biomedica journal, two professors from the University of Sapienzia of Rome, are contemplating how the possibility of giving birth can bring joy to a man who considers himself to be a woman. Federica Umani Ronchi and Gabriele Napoletano, two researchers from the university, debate the possibilities of transplanting a womb into a man in the journal. They started from the premise that organ transplants in women who were previously unable to give birth resulted in higher satisfaction and quality of life. They added that artificial intervention in transgender women is in the experimental phase. There is a growing desire from men who are transitioning to women for a womb so that they can feel even more like a woman. The final conclusion is that if uterine transplantation is feasible and serves the fulfillment of desires, even fathers can give birth. Certain medical experts provide counterpoints, but there is no mention of these. As transgender women are gaining more and more rights, if uterine transplantation were to become a right, male motherhood would not be morally debatable either. It is undeniable that the bioethical rules currently in force need to be radically updated. The assumptions ignore the rights, desires and needs of the offspring.”

I hope this is understandable. And of course, Adam had it easy because when the phalanstère-scholar proclaimed the verdict that “a fanatical man and a nervous woman gave birth to a freak generation, this is a bad coupling,” Lucifer simply carried on his work. (On into space. Into nothing.)

But we will remain. And we’ll look on, fearing if this whole sh...tshow will return – as Marx predicted. Or just the opposite. (To be continued.)

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