Comment on Wretchard T. Cat on Facebook:"Can we still believe in heroism in a world without heroes?"

When there were only two sexes most people managed to find a partner. It may not have been Mr or Miss Right and there was enough self pity generated to keep bartenders employed but there was remarkably few instances of arsenic in the scrambled eggs. People muddled through. The greater the complexity though the lesser the probability of finding anyone even remotely likely to fit in the narrowly defined box people are being measured for. Over 47% of humanity meet the definition of "Heterosexual Male" and another 47% meet the definition of "Heterosexual Female." Stick your nose out of the door and you are bound to encounter someone that meets the minimum standard. Additional standards will reduce the size of the availability pool. Must they be single? Must they be within certain age limits? Must they, as a college roommate once called out, have "Two eyes and a lung?" Still a qualified candidate is sure to be out there. When you start narrowing the criteria to meet standards that only apply, if they exist in reality at all, to 0.01% of humanity the sad truth is that even with the aid of the internet you are unlikely to find a match. It certainly becomes ineffective to impose costs on the other 99.99% of humanity to aid you in your search. Simple homosexuals are 4-5% of the population. That is large enough to make some reasonable allowances that do not impose excessive costs on the majority.

Why do totalitarians like the obsession with creating multiple narrow categories? Partly it is because they want time and energy wasted since on general principles they want to see our civilization self destruct. Partly it is because the more that people are isolated and frustrated then the easier they are to control. A lonely society is a trustless society. A trustless society lacks civil society and is open to totalitarian control.