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2023-02-19

It's never too late to learn a new word, and "semiotics" is today's opportunity!

So all you smug intellectuals who already knew it can now look down your noses at me in confident superiority - and provided you limit your pride to your comparative knowledge of linguistics, then I demur not.

So why do I mention this apparently random word here? Well, it appears in the latest contribution to our understanding of the Woke, the Gender dysphoria, and the Transgender indoctrination ideologies that so infect our public institutions these days, in diametric opposition that eternal bedrock of our civilised humanity, the family.

Until now(/recently?) the propagation and upbringing of the human race has been entirely dependent upon the union of a man and a woman to introduce a family of morally physically and spiritually upstanding new entrants to humanity. Likewise it is ideally the family that comes together to bid them adieu when their time comes to move onward.

That same concept of the caring protecting nourishing and educating family finds extension in the form of the tribe of old, and even in the modern nation state, where citizens share a common bond of all manner of similar experience history and motivation. They instinctively understand each other in many respects.

Although today the formal notion of the tribe has taken a battering, even so we may be members of many effective tribes (alma mater, employment, political party, sport, special interest group etc) all of which share the same motivations of caring protecting nourishing (how many dinners have you attended lately?!) and educating.

So why the sudden need to insult this bedrock of humanity that has served us so well over the ages? For insult is exactly what the institutions of the state are now inflicting with their "hate crimes", phoney "inclusion" and "diversity" programs (that implicitly exclude others) for a bewildering list of ill-defined subcategories -  all are no longer equal under legislation.

The legal adoption of absurd notions of gender that defy evidence and logic (self-identification of sex, medical battery by fraudulent promotion of transgenderism and consequent irreversible but seriously deficient sexual "transitions") - and the criminal promotion of these hoaxes by our institutions of state - bear witness to a corruption within our society that runs both high and deep.

What to do?

Martin Geddes shares some ideas ...