A giant inflatable IUD has been traveling the United States as a monument to contraception. It says so much about our culture that it could be promoted as a net good, or worse, as a "right".
Ive heard from a couple infertility Dr.s that when a woman uses these or other birth control for years and then decide they want a baby at 35 plus...its all but tragic to let them know they can't have one. Try try again and again. Tricking your body into thinking it's actually pregnant for 10 plus years is going against nature and your body's reason for being a woman. Seeing more and more of this. When I see a large family ( more than 1 kid) I cheer.
@ Maggie Michel Yes many do not realize this fact that you just stated. A clever pro life marketer would blast and broadcast this fact and many like it everywhere the faux liberty iud blow up goes. Even when removed the probability of miscarriage is sky high and women are duped into not being informed of this. The same women that support the iud idea also want to have children some day. Just not now. Let them know someday will never come if they use this device.
Based on devices and technology we've only had for a few decades... people seem to think that our science has discovered it all, figured it all out, has achieved ultimate knowledge and understanding, and that as such, they can take to an ultimate political level as some sort of announcement of righteousness... what, because a device was invented? That's like saying that A.I. now exists, therefore all law and morality should favor A.I. because we invented a device. That device, developed with 'science,' once invented IS the law because.... "science." All old law, not in favor of A.I. is now forfeit. So, women can 'block' conception. They can take pills, have operations, anything one can think of. "We have the technology." Therefore... they will say... we have the right.
From 'science' of anatomy, to surgery, to chemistry, to now manufactured mechanical devices, the advertisement is that with this device, you will have freedom.
Is that what they'll say about A.I.? Is that what they said about computers? Is that what they said about the internet? With this, you shall have freedom. Is that how it works? Or is that how one is enslaved?
So many chemicals and devices that have been 'invented' to "protect" us. So many that have had such catastrophic effects. So many court cases about the 'right' companies have to manufacture and sell them all. And how it becomes political to point out any possible new problems that have come with this new technology. Hundreds of years without these things, and then less than a hundred years with these things. This could be the ultimate era of arrogance, where the "progress" of technologies continually leads to greater and greater catastrophies. 300 years ago, these were not really things people worried about. Whether any kind of device, substance or thing could harm you slowly over time.
We're not ignorant people from the middle ages today, or are we? Are we ignorant uneducated morons who can't even dream of driving a 'car,' let alone communicate instantly at our whims, or have access to all manner of chemicals, substances, drugs to take at our convenience for hundreds of reasons at any given time for any given malady, perceived or real? I'm not so sure that we've figured everything out yet. The idea of having so much power through technology to do things most people couldn't dream of in the middle ages, let alone 150 years ago, and here we are, using everything without considering ANY consequences ever, and if anybody points out such consequences, they are to be considered some kind of possible 'oppressors' to the freedom to do whatever you want without consequences.
Civilization should have slowed down in the 1800s, but it didn't, we know it should all slow down, but people don't slow anything down. They believe in the Singularity, that it's all magically leading to some utopia just around the corner, so if you attempt to slow things down, you prevent us from having this utopia sooner. I assert, there cannot be this utopia from where we are at right now. Technology doesn't magically create a Star Trek government. It's the people that make that Star Trek government utopia. Since we aren't even close to solving the problems of everybody, for everybody, there won't be that utopia any time soon. It's likely we never solve all these problems, the bullshit never ends as they say.
The very people saying that based on 'what we know' as in 'the science' we should just keep on going full speed ahead, but from what we know and can know, there are observable effects that clearly can harm people. Do harm people. Have harmed people. Until that 'science' is accepted by the scientifically driven people telling us to take certain chemicals in our arms, well, how can we possible resolve this or any similar situation? How has science become so political? "Trust the science" is the slogan of the current dystopia. When they clearly aren't 'trusting' the science at all if they even cared what it was. Either they know, or they lie. It won't matter how many studies you can cite, they will wear their masks, and consume the chemicals, and anyone who doesn't do as they do is not just disagreeable, they are enemies of society. No second opinions allowed.
You have reported on several people who, it could be argued, are victims of this scientific-political ideology, which isn't even really based on empirical science at all, in fact, is merely based on the idea that technology has been invented, and those who don't want to use it are the enemies of society and state, verifiably injured by such technologies... which is of course a very unlibertarian ideal, if they had their way, it would be a total technocratic and authoritarian state. It's not about freedom at all is it? Lead coated dinner plates is a thing of the past. You have to ask why. Because such things can poison us. We somehow have come to know this to be true, and the very principle of it seems familiar, we don't spray Agent Orange or DDT anymore (although some would argue, there are worse things that have replaced them up there) supposedly because "we know better."
Can we "know better" on issues such as this one in your article? Do we already "know better?" Is there something else going on here than simple ignorance? Is it all entirely based upon taking advantage of people's ignorance?
(By the way, I hope those IUDs are made from 'sustainable' eco-friendly recycled impact-free carbon neutral net zero non-petroleum based energy manufacturing. If not, clearly, it's "evil" and must be stopped... somebody call Greta, I suspect these are not earth-friendly, like those masks I see all over the ground in parking lots.) I say, IUDs contribute to global warming, therefore...
Moloch now has a blow-up statue.
Well, the upside to this is that Leftists aren't breeding.
They breed memetically and quite effectively at that.
Ive heard from a couple infertility Dr.s that when a woman uses these or other birth control for years and then decide they want a baby at 35 plus...its all but tragic to let them know they can't have one. Try try again and again. Tricking your body into thinking it's actually pregnant for 10 plus years is going against nature and your body's reason for being a woman. Seeing more and more of this. When I see a large family ( more than 1 kid) I cheer.
@ Maggie Michel Yes many do not realize this fact that you just stated. A clever pro life marketer would blast and broadcast this fact and many like it everywhere the faux liberty iud blow up goes. Even when removed the probability of miscarriage is sky high and women are duped into not being informed of this. The same women that support the iud idea also want to have children some day. Just not now. Let them know someday will never come if they use this device.
Based on devices and technology we've only had for a few decades... people seem to think that our science has discovered it all, figured it all out, has achieved ultimate knowledge and understanding, and that as such, they can take to an ultimate political level as some sort of announcement of righteousness... what, because a device was invented? That's like saying that A.I. now exists, therefore all law and morality should favor A.I. because we invented a device. That device, developed with 'science,' once invented IS the law because.... "science." All old law, not in favor of A.I. is now forfeit. So, women can 'block' conception. They can take pills, have operations, anything one can think of. "We have the technology." Therefore... they will say... we have the right.
From 'science' of anatomy, to surgery, to chemistry, to now manufactured mechanical devices, the advertisement is that with this device, you will have freedom.
Is that what they'll say about A.I.? Is that what they said about computers? Is that what they said about the internet? With this, you shall have freedom. Is that how it works? Or is that how one is enslaved?
So many chemicals and devices that have been 'invented' to "protect" us. So many that have had such catastrophic effects. So many court cases about the 'right' companies have to manufacture and sell them all. And how it becomes political to point out any possible new problems that have come with this new technology. Hundreds of years without these things, and then less than a hundred years with these things. This could be the ultimate era of arrogance, where the "progress" of technologies continually leads to greater and greater catastrophies. 300 years ago, these were not really things people worried about. Whether any kind of device, substance or thing could harm you slowly over time.
We're not ignorant people from the middle ages today, or are we? Are we ignorant uneducated morons who can't even dream of driving a 'car,' let alone communicate instantly at our whims, or have access to all manner of chemicals, substances, drugs to take at our convenience for hundreds of reasons at any given time for any given malady, perceived or real? I'm not so sure that we've figured everything out yet. The idea of having so much power through technology to do things most people couldn't dream of in the middle ages, let alone 150 years ago, and here we are, using everything without considering ANY consequences ever, and if anybody points out such consequences, they are to be considered some kind of possible 'oppressors' to the freedom to do whatever you want without consequences.
Civilization should have slowed down in the 1800s, but it didn't, we know it should all slow down, but people don't slow anything down. They believe in the Singularity, that it's all magically leading to some utopia just around the corner, so if you attempt to slow things down, you prevent us from having this utopia sooner. I assert, there cannot be this utopia from where we are at right now. Technology doesn't magically create a Star Trek government. It's the people that make that Star Trek government utopia. Since we aren't even close to solving the problems of everybody, for everybody, there won't be that utopia any time soon. It's likely we never solve all these problems, the bullshit never ends as they say.
The very people saying that based on 'what we know' as in 'the science' we should just keep on going full speed ahead, but from what we know and can know, there are observable effects that clearly can harm people. Do harm people. Have harmed people. Until that 'science' is accepted by the scientifically driven people telling us to take certain chemicals in our arms, well, how can we possible resolve this or any similar situation? How has science become so political? "Trust the science" is the slogan of the current dystopia. When they clearly aren't 'trusting' the science at all if they even cared what it was. Either they know, or they lie. It won't matter how many studies you can cite, they will wear their masks, and consume the chemicals, and anyone who doesn't do as they do is not just disagreeable, they are enemies of society. No second opinions allowed.
You have reported on several people who, it could be argued, are victims of this scientific-political ideology, which isn't even really based on empirical science at all, in fact, is merely based on the idea that technology has been invented, and those who don't want to use it are the enemies of society and state, verifiably injured by such technologies... which is of course a very unlibertarian ideal, if they had their way, it would be a total technocratic and authoritarian state. It's not about freedom at all is it? Lead coated dinner plates is a thing of the past. You have to ask why. Because such things can poison us. We somehow have come to know this to be true, and the very principle of it seems familiar, we don't spray Agent Orange or DDT anymore (although some would argue, there are worse things that have replaced them up there) supposedly because "we know better."
Can we "know better" on issues such as this one in your article? Do we already "know better?" Is there something else going on here than simple ignorance? Is it all entirely based upon taking advantage of people's ignorance?
(By the way, I hope those IUDs are made from 'sustainable' eco-friendly recycled impact-free carbon neutral net zero non-petroleum based energy manufacturing. If not, clearly, it's "evil" and must be stopped... somebody call Greta, I suspect these are not earth-friendly, like those masks I see all over the ground in parking lots.) I say, IUDs contribute to global warming, therefore...
It resembles a gallows in a way. Which of course it is - for the innocent child and for our society as a whole. Macabre.
Blow up inflatable seems very appropriate for the symbolism.
Wait:
"A giant inflatable IUD, standing at 20 feet tall, has been popping up in American cities, from Washington D.C. to Tampa."
Now there is a sentence I never, in my wildest imagination, would have thought I would ever read.