| | For an article written 8 years ago, Ron was remarkably prophetic - or rather, scientifically predictive as a scientific student of history. We are, indeed, in a repeating cycle of conflict and totalitarianism. The threat, by now, is less environmentalism and feminism than religious totalism, both Islamist and Christianist. But it is environmentalism - with its deprecation of "anthropocentric" technological science, and its atavistic celebrations of the primitive - and feminism - with its deprecation of male sexuality, and its prescriptive censorship, against expression of vigor and pleasure, as "pornography," "obscenity," "indecency," "verbal harassment" and "hate speech" - that laid the political infrastructure of retrogression, antihedonia and obscurantism on which Islamists and Christianists today are riding to power.
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