but, what about the fear of the underclass not producing enough slaves? it's amazing when you look at the history of homophobia. a consistent narrative jumps out:

1) in the early days, it was often used as a 'gotcha' type thing by the church. so, if you're a philosopher that's talking about all kinds of crazy things like atheism, and you happen to be gay, they could get you on that when they can't get you otherwise. it was often used as a pretext to shut down opposition.

2) during various phases when the empire was weak, it was attacked because it was viewed as hindering population replacement. so, if there was a famine or a plague or a disastrous war, they'd go after the gays for not doing their job in helping to produce more workers and soldiers.

3) under feudalism and slavery, it was attacked because it hindered the ability for the serf or slave's owner to produce further offspring (which would produce more wealth, or be sold).

4) then bondage became replaced by debt, but the prohibition continued for the same reason.

oddly, now that population control (rather than population replacement) is the dominant goal of the elite, the oppression has mostly slowed down, except religious opposition - which is the same basic idea as we've seen throughout history: gay people don't create a new generation of donating church goers.

well, and also in russia. where the population is declining.

i know that's grim.

here's a document that explains this in more detail:
http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=310

just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.

"these anarchists, they think they can just do what they want, and it's not ok." - cop speaking into walky talky as i walked by, and was seemingly followed into the grocery store, and then home.

it's a good thing i'm completely boring and have no possible leads whatsoever towards anything of any interest or consequence. otherwise, they might not be wasting their time.

unless they want to have a heated debate, i guess. imagine the nerve of me, thinking i can just say what i want wherever i want to say it.

i'm pretty sure i've been through this before, and it's just basically like "whatever". the only thing they could prove is that whoever's in charge deserves a demotion.

great day to go for a walk. it went up from 10 to 20 as i was walking. and the high today is a nice 28. yay . best of all, it seems like the basement is retaining heat well. finally...

got stuck outside the music store (i needed strings) for a half hour before they opened, so i went across the street to the salvation army. i know. but, why not sort through the books while i'm waiting? i was looking specifically for an old text by thomas hobbes, which i think is actually on the banned books list. yes, there's still a banned books list. seriously.

danielle steel. wall to wall. i kid not. i burst out laughing, actually. says a lot about christian repression, doesn't it?

there's a used store down the street with literally everything. snagged my leviathan on the way back for $5.

also, i found a market that sells local tomatoes for a quarter of the cost of the imported mexican ones at the grocery store. happy about that.....

bad news: up to 12 more weeks before i hear back on my border papers. fuckers. i'm missing mt. zion this week and at this rate will probably also miss swans next month. fuck.

i have one more walking trip to make, and then i've got a nice comfy week of reading and recording.

it couldn't be that difficult to genetically engineer coffee so it doesn't stain your teeth.