Retrogressive Progressivism

I fear I was amused at the expense of one of my correspondants during a recent debate or discussion in this space.

Concerning the divine mystery and sacrament of marriage, and the mystique of femininity (of which the modern mind seems not to be able to find mysterious, and willing to recognize as sacred, but regards marriage as much the same as a commercial transaction for mutual benefit) one objection raised to the traditional role of wife and mother was that it was one of economic dependence, and therefore one not to be envied.

Now, this is a perfectly reasonable objection to make, particularly for someone afflicted with that colorblindness endemic to Progressives, that makes them talk and act as if the natural aspects of human nature, to say nothing of its supernatural aspects, where they cannot see the hues of human life, but blunder along by describing all things by their most crude and angular of silhouettes.

The mentally colorblind man not only cannot debate the shade of difference between azure and cerulean, he cannot even define his terms to correspond even roughly with reality, not even to tell that red means stop and green means go. The corresponding confusion regarding his mental traffic jams results.

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