'Me too' points to something big that is on the way.
What we see today in movements like 'me-too' or, the chorus for and against the entry of female devotees to certain places, are in fact nothing but irrational acts with no malicious intent. You see, as a result of the progress we have achieved so far, many of the irrational acts of yesteryears got adapted suitably to our society. We are also heavily discouraging the few remaining ones like consumption of alcohol, gambling, etc. As a result, we will have to resort to multiple reuse of the few irrational acts still in acceptance, and wayward romance can be thought of as one such. Each instance of its reuse adding to its severity, we may end up exposing ourselves to acts that are too regressive. And that is what we are witnessing.
This brings up another important point to ponder. The present pattern of population growth is giving an alarming picture, where the moderate nations are showing a declining rate, while all other countries show considerable increase. And today, among the different cultures or societies of the world, the repressive views, especially those pertaining to male-female equality and suppression of female sexuality, do face, wide, effective opposition only because the moderates are in a decent, reckon-able number. Won’t in future, with the differential rate of population growth when moderates become a minority, the regressive majority will find themselves empowered enough to take whatever steps necessary to cement the existing gender inequalities, if not furthering them? Or extermination of billions of people on Earth, incredible suffering, and many devastating upheavals result from their actions, which always will be of the extreme? Can’t this be considered as the most serious problem facing the mankind, an early example of which is, me too?
What we see today in movements like 'me-too' or, the chorus for and against the entry of female devotees to certain places, are in fact nothing but irrational acts with no malicious intent. You see, as a result of the progress we have achieved so far, many of the irrational acts of yesteryears got adapted suitably to our society. We are also heavily discouraging the few remaining ones like consumption of alcohol, gambling, etc. As a result, we will have to resort to multiple reuse of the few irrational acts still in acceptance, and wayward romance can be thought of as one such. Each instance of its reuse adding to its severity, we may end up exposing ourselves to acts that are too regressive. And that is what we are witnessing.
This brings up another important point to ponder. The present pattern of population growth is giving an alarming picture, where the moderate nations are showing a declining rate, while all other countries show considerable increase. And today, among the different cultures or societies of the world, the repressive views, especially those pertaining to male-female equality and suppression of female sexuality, do face, wide, effective opposition only because the moderates are in a decent, reckon-able number. Won’t in future, with the differential rate of population growth when moderates become a minority, the regressive majority will find themselves empowered enough to take whatever steps necessary to cement the existing gender inequalities, if not furthering them? Or extermination of billions of people on Earth, incredible suffering, and many devastating upheavals result from their actions, which always will be of the extreme? Can’t this be considered as the most serious problem facing the mankind, an early example of which is, me too?
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