Wolf World

The New Puritans. The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.

Liberals have gotten weird and strange, more so than I ever thought possible. It really wonโ€™t be long before they are advocating chaperoned dates, mandatory chastity, and that women be accompanied everywhere by a male relative.

Therefore, just as a child or, say, a St. Bernard cannot consent to sex, neither apparently can an adult college student with an uncertain job future. And given that consent is โ€œcomplicatedโ€ when such a โ€œlopsided power dynamicโ€ comes into play, itโ€™s no wonder that the actual encounters could be harrowing โ€“ even when, as the Boston Globe explained, the victims were not even aware of that โ€œpower imbalanceโ€ at the time

Itโ€™s just all so odd. I read about it, and I feel like Iโ€™m reading about aliens pretending to be humans.

Constant preaching that all human interactions are political contests, with one side always getting the better of the other, has made a whole generation phobic about adulthood.

This mirrors my thoughts. These people see all interactions as predator/prey, with nothing else possible. Itโ€™s the world in which theyโ€™ve grown up, so itโ€™s hard to blame them fully. But I still blame them, because one can always choose not to be a dumbass.