Born From Love

"Born" From Love

9/9/2023

The Establishment continues to remind Hungary that a globo-only option is off the table.

If Magyars want the globo -- and let's not kid ourselves, deep down, Magyars really, really want the globo -- then they have to sign up for the homo part, too.

Them's the breaks, Magyars! Don't pretend otherwise.

Random notes on the image above:

Elle

French pronoun meaning she.
Modern usage has provided it with a "chic" connotation.
What is chic? Well . . . (strong language advisory).

Elle continued

feminine name of Hebrew of Greek origin meaning "sun ray." Related to the Hebrew name Eleanor, meaning "God is my light", "God is my candle."
elle sounds like the twelfth letter of the Latin and modern English alphabet.
love starts with the letter "L".

Born from Love

this used to apply exclusively to childbirth resulting from the union of a man and woman. Not anymore, baby!

Cover image

similar to a "love-is-love" ad Coca-Cola launched in Hungary last year, with a bottle of Coke occupying the same space the baby occupies on the Elle cover.

Reaction

touted as a landmark step for positive queer representation in the media.
apparently, social media in Hungary has been flooded by comments "celebrating" the image.
the magazine has stated the cover is part of a "campaign all over the country for love and all forms of family".

Personal Thought

Is it just me, or are these campaigns and lines of attack growing a bit stale?

Note added: I've concluded that the best approach to these sorts of "campaigns" is to refrain from "reacting" to them -- either negatively or positively.

Instead, I have found that is better to discern -- see the thing for what it is, and by what it is, I mean understand the motivations and manipulations behind it -- and then focus instead on the Good.

Non-reaction to these sorts of exclusively external campaigns provides the space needed for creativity.

3 Comments

plob ploberson

9/9/2023 21:14:38

My only response is to note that kissing is a weird western thing some cultures don't even have. The African migrants are looking at this going, "what are they doing? what is that formation they are making with their mouths?"

bruce g charlton

9/10/2023 08:34:23

I suppose it is a malign side effect of the extremism and separation of values that far too many people* have the idea that we only need to step back from the extremes and be sensible.

That might have been possible several decades ago - but that inflexion point has long since been left behind, and things are now so deeply corrupted that most people have assimilated it, and become almost unaware of the extraordinary evil of what is regarded as good and idealistic in 'normal' life.

It is - I find - impossible even to imagine a 'evolutionary' path towards a Good society that could be one of smooth and incremental, piecemeal improvement.

As I have said for years, there seems no way of avoiding catastrophic collapse-type destruction - firstly because that is what the controlling Establishment are planning, but secondly because (if it could even happen!) the extirpation of major and structural evil assumptions would surely cause a collapse of the current system.

(In brief: The System As Is, is fundamentally evil and self-destructive and therefore both cannot, and should not, survive.)

*The kind of people who think Hungary is showing the West the way forward; or who think that electing their currently favoured politician would be a decisive step in the right direction!

Francis Berger

9/10/2023 21:46:01

@ Bruce - I share your pessimism. There's no fixing this now, especially not through conventional means. And even if it could be fixed via conventional means, such developments would simply kick the can down the road rather than address the fundamental problems at hand; hence, make things even more evil.

Politics can do nothing to solve this evil. On the contrary, politics postively fortifies it.

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