The Full Monty

Incest; they keep on hammering , is a shameful thing - the received thinking being that children borne of such liaisons have more chances than not of having some kind of a mental, physical or emotional handicap.It would appear the supreme custodians of emotional black-mail in our global village i.e. some men of the book have this time around read and re-read their textbooks of genetics, and how well too so that now there's no two ways about this for hets. Have kids with your sis and be sure to raise a family of retards ( in-breeding even among first cousins is said to promote the transmission of certain recessive genetic traits and that is no plain matter).
But what about incest in homosexuality?! Now, that's a totally different bag of cantaloupe. Should this be allowed if it is consensual between two adult same sex siblings who wish to keep a good thing going within the family? :)
Without pointing fingers at any one culture or community in the world where consanguinous union is nothing out of the ordinary; ask yourself this : does a traditional custom/ social practice become acceptable, even when serious fault-lines begin to surface only because there already exists a passionate belief system in its support? Are we saying, consanguinous marriages; ingrained as they are in certain world cultures are pardonable, precisely, because as a people we are most squeamish when it comes to rubbishing someone else's cultural practices or having to re-invent the wheel for them. Standing up for consanguinous unions whilst giving out step-motherly treatment to its conjoined twin - "incest" is ludicrous.
We are NOT for heterosexual incest at all but demolishing gay incest is quite, frankly, barking up the wrong tree. Besides , we should imagine gay incest would find an unusual ally in the homophobic lobby who worry too much all the time about the moral decay of society, as we know it today, through propagation of a gay life-style between strangers in urban sprawls. Gay incest will take care of that worry once and for all.

So are we missing out on something crucial here?

Can the moral of this story then be : Like charity, gayness too should begin at home?!

Cut Copy Paste

After much umming & eering to generate something borderline intelligible, the blank slate,which is my mind,has hit upon a rocking idea : to cut copy paste musings of my hero; Ms Rand to afford us some light grub for thought.


"She did not want to think, but the sound of thought went on, like the drone of the motors under the sounds of the engine. She looked at the cab around her.The fine steel mesh of the ceiling ,she thought,and the row of rivets in the corner, holding sheets of steel together - who made them? The brute force of men's muscles? Who made it possible for four dials and three levers to hold the incredible power of the sixteen motors behind them and deliver it to the effortless control of one man's hand?
These things and the capacity from which they came -was this the pursuit men regarded as evil? Was this what they considered an ignoble concern with the physical world? Was this the state of being enslaved by matter? Was this the surrender of man's spirit to his body?
She shook her head , as if she wished she could toss the subject out of the window and let it get shattered somewhere along the track....She did not have to think, because these questions were only details of a truth she knew and had always known. Let them go past like the telegraph poles. The thing she knew was like the wires flying above in an unbroken line. The words, for it , and for this journey,and for her feeling, and for the whole of man's earth, were: It's so simple and so right!"