Queer Theory & Futurism

[Michael Bailey]

further thoughts:

a) Not too many moons back, a professor Hoppe, of the libertarian
persuasion, was hauled up before his campus authorities
at UNLV for stating something in a lecture about how the gay
contingent was liable to have different
time values, and less incentive to save for the future.
It's interesting to me, because that disciplinary action was covered
as a terrible outrage by the Misesians,
who have their pluses and minuses, from my point of view (as do the
queer theorists)
(I can't say I cleave with either camp very far but both have earned
some respect, I think)

b) the underlying assumptions of Hoppe were simply that a child-free
lifestyle gives a person
different market preferences.  He probably didn't state it very tactfully.
So you've got all these Misesians ranting and raving about PCness, the same
people who rant and rave about Mises himself not being able to get a
good professor
gig because of a systemic prejudice against his views, which - if you
think about it for
just one second - it would have helped him to have that PC apparatus
in place to complain
about his shabby treatment.

c)  this whole Scrooge-loving,
"emulate the birds in The Birds", kiddie-hating nihilistic queer theory is
a bit "why then ile suit you" isn't it?  In the face of Proposition 9
- "ok you people,
you fragile Obama consensus who won't stand up for us, we will put our
queer shoulders to
the wheel and steer this ship of fools onto the shoals, nyah-hah-hah"

d) and - geez-o Pete, it IS a misperception: the gay or queer people I
know, and there's a fair
number - I work for a diversity-affirming company, for one thing -
have loads of concern for
kindness and inter-generational values, and that adoption thing, and
that long term partner thing.
Then you've got all the good life-affirming values-inculcation of Will
and Grace, and Glee, and all
the progressive education that buttheads like to cherry-pick
sillinesses from but has really helped,
and all the good people over the years who let each other into their
hearts and so forth...
all that Little Engine that Could stuff!  Don't give up, when the
going gets tough, so forth...

e) so I think it is also fair to draw parallels -

the civil rights movement (yeah, I'm'a trot that out again) lost
ground rather than gaining it
when substantial factions threw over non-violence in the face of
admittedly heartbreaking setbacks.

the SDS, with rather less justification, threw over working within the
system and peaceful protest
in favor of bizarre and counterproductive antics which even those of
them who survived have disowned in retrospect

the Beatles broke up because John and Paul couldn't accept each
others' - oh wait, that's a different lament...