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and then check out how many parallels seem to fit our current situation....
There once was an empire so enamored of sex that it spent most of its time and energy on the topic. Those in power talked little about poverty, concern for the most vulnerable, or promoting the common good. They had a revolutionary sexual topic available for every hour of the day, and instead of saying that their business was holding fast to the self-evident truths of their constitution, they preferred to describe themselves as transitioning into a new vision of the human person.
In this land, life was all about freedom and equality. One year, however, sex and gender bullies rose up throughout the land in the form of social and cultural elites--influential entertainers and athletes, powerful corporations and institutions, as well as the university intelligentsia. They presented themselves as experts on sex and gender, and they said that they could create the most magnificent array of sexes and genders ever known to the human race.
"Our multiplicity of sexes and genders will liberate people from the binary constrictions of 'male' and 'female'," claimed these power brokers. They asked, "Who could be opposed to such freedom and equality?" Moreover, they convinced the leaders of the land that these new sexes and genders had a wonderful quality of being recognizable only by those who were worthy of their current station in life, and establishing whether or not a person is intelligent.
The political leaders realized that these new claims about sex and gender would help distract the people of the empire from the fact that so many
of their fellow citizens were being neglected, disenfranchised, and
marginalized. They also said to themselves, "If we impose these new sexes and genders in our land, we will be able to tell who is worthy of their current social and economic standing, and we will be able to tell those who are intelligent from those who are ignorant."
So the empire's political leaders re-branded the sex and gender bullies as "Freedom Enforcers," or FEs, and encouraged them to get to work at once imposing new sexes and genders throughout the land. These FEs recruited doctors and lawyers and social scientists to the cause, and they pretended to be researching incredible new discoveries. They began to use the schools and public institutions as laboratories for their expanding lists of sexes and genders.
In response to those who disagreed with their truth claims, they threatened boycotts and branded their opponents bigots for maintaining that the human race exists in only two sexes. They droned on about equality and civil liberties whenever someone mentioned the physiological and chromosonal differences between men and women, let alone the sociological importance of both mothers and fathers.
"We would like to ask when the work of the FEs will be finished," the empire's political leaders thought to themselves after some time had passed. But they hesitated to inquire since they remembered that the new multiplicity of sexes and genders had the power to reveal whether people were worthy of their station in life--and whether they were intelligent or ignorant. So they decided to send representatives to ask whether the transitioning program was almost complete.
