Cultural Shift

I realized a few years ago that the cultural shift we’re undergoing is one where each new stage invalidates the so-called logic that was used to justify the previous stage.

For example, the sexual revolution of the 1960s claimed:

Intimacy can be whatever you want it to be; it isn’t dependent upon your marriage.

Let’s call that Insanity Stage 1, even if not everyone agreed at the time that it was insane. Interestingly, the claim of Insanity Stage 1 became irrelevant once we drifted into the next level of insanity:

(Insanity Stage 2): Marriage can be whatever you want it to be; it isn’t dependent upon your gender.

At this point, many decent people couldn’t see the insanity, but upon close inspection, we can see a pattern:

A can be whatever you want, as long as we redefine B.
But once B is redefined, it becomes the new A, setting the stage for the next redefinition.

Insanity is taking hold.

Looking back, we now see that Stage 2 followed this exact formula—the foundation of the previous claim was removed and replaced with something entirely new.

So what happens when gender, which was B in Stage 2, becomes A in Stage 3?

(Insanity Stage 3): Gender can be whatever you want it to be; it isn’t dependent upon your body.

Like the “X” on the emergency escape map, we are HERE.

So the question is: what’s next?

Following the pattern, B was the body in Stage 3. The next phase must redefine the body itself—turning material reality into just another construct to be reshaped at will.

(Insanity Stage 4): Your body can be whatever you want it to be; it isn’t dependent upon matter.

We can trace specific cultural markers for each stage:

• Roe v. Wade (sex outside the borders of marriage)
• Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage outside the borders of gender)
• Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover (gender outside the borders of biology)

So what is the next cultural marker?

I’m not sure, but Insanity Stage 4 is transhumanism. And I don’t know what happens when we can’t even agree on the definition of matter.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

P.S. My friend Matt Reinkemeyer shared the following as an extension of this pattern:

• Matter can be whatever you want it to be, it isn't dependent upon your soul.
• Your soul can be whatever you want it to be, it isn't dependent upon your ultimate end.
• Your ultimate end can be whatever you want it to be, it isn't dependent upon your beginning.
• Your beginning can be whatever you want it to be, it isn't dependent upon God.
• God can be whatever you want it to be, because your view of god isn't dependent upon anything