Queens

 

Subject: Queens.

Is it possible that our national improvement in diet has led to more 'Queens' being produced.
In a Wasp colony certain larvae are chosen and fed higher protein by the worker wasps, its from these overfed larvae that the Queen emerges.
Today we are often baffled by the range of sexual deviance now seen in humans. Not only the lesbian / homosexual members of society but a whole growing range of transgender types. Men who become women, women becoming men, there are new medical combinations born each year, all types of proclivity for those wishing some recognition.
It's a phenomena which seems to have appeared from nowhere. Just recently "a man" gave birth to a baby.  We have the disquiet amongst athletes competing against Caster Semenya the woman from South Africa who has high testosterone levels which equate to her having the strength and endurance of a man, much to the dismay of genuine women competing against her. There was a ruling by the Athletics Association that Semenya had to take a course of drugs to lower her testosterone level but another body centred on 'ethical rights' pronounced this an infringing on her rights as an individual. The rights of the women athletes who didn't benefit the hormonal advantage and who were being thwarted a medal and the substantial winnings which go with it, were somehow seen as second best which goes to show it's only on the fringes of society that you get a hearing.
It's a phenomenon of the 21st century that the ordinary common or garden man and woman are unfortunately blindsided, forced to exist in a no man's land of reverse prejudice. Unable to justify or voice their own opinion for fear of being found phobic in some way they huddle in a corner waiting for the new dawn to arrive.
The 'normal person'  is somehow thought of as having enough of a head start in this journey through life and we must do everything in our power to adjust the balance. The word normal is avoided like the plague. Everyone's condition is assumed normal to them and whilst it used to mean the majority condition it has been captured as something more personal, and very individualistic.
Of course turning to the dictionary it defines normal as : usual, typical, as expected. There is no room for a comforting description to assuage the sensibilities of the headline formers who themselves are often far from being described as normal. Through the headline writers power and influence, the masses have been cajoled into an airtight box waiting results. Their voice has been homogenised to fit other agendas, their views lambasted as ignorant, illiberal,  in need of revision.
In Orwell's 1984 and famously in Mao Tse-tung's China, 'Revisionism' was deemed necessary to re-educate the ordinary people to a political view that was necessary to achieve the goals of the "Great Leader". The leaders today are not so much individuals but a collective of liberal opinion who's hard edge is no less ideological than was Mao's.
As a collective of individuals we better guard against a collective view that banishes the firmly held 'consensus' for something seen as "better for us".