We have become a society of prudes, or perhaps "returned to being" is a better phrasing, giving our Puritan history as a country...because of this, and perhaps worse, we are a society that acts as though my problems are your problems, or rather, my issues are your issues.

This is a symptom of that disease: we have made sex and sexuality criminal, and we make people pay for it, even children.

You may think I am damning the Right in saying this, given their well-known stance on sexuality, nudity, pornography, and so forth, and you would only be half-right, for the Left is not only complicit in this state of affairs, but outright engaged.

Because the two prongs of this attack upon and erosion of freedom, in the name of "social mores", have been certain so-called "feminists" and "family-values" conservatives. Two groups who should be diametrically opposed, and yet have come together to absolutely damn natural biological behaviors in our society and to criminalize the body itself.

Don't see the connection? Then think about pornography and how each group views it, as filthy, disgusting, exploitative, wrong, offensive, even criminal...

( ...who and what to blame... )

So, I finally finished a game I started eighteen years ago: Final Fantasy I. Yep, I defeated Chaos earlier tonight. I almost didn't finish it this time, either. A month or two ago I stopped at the same place I had before: outside the Chaos shrine, right before going in to beat the final boss.

I don't recall why I stopped there that time (it was 18 years ago!). This time it was that I'd been playing it so long I'd started to get sick of it -- and the idea of going through the new levels in the "Dawn of Souls" remake and clearing each of them felt mind-numbing -- so I decided to put it away for a few days. Other things got in the way of having much time on the computer for the next couple months, so I never did get back to it.

Today, however, I thought: "Hell, why not? I've got to finish it sometime! And I don't want to have gotten this far AGAIN without having anything to show for it. Ok, let's finish it; screw clearing out the Shrines."

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