While the West is convulsing itself in culture wars, the real war in Eastern Europe has already slipped off the headlines. Maybe their coming winter will decide what's important: keeping warm and keeping the wheels of industry moving or teaching little boys at school that it's all right to wear a skirt.
While watching the above video with Dr Jordan Peterson, a controversial Canadian academic, you may wish to keep in mind what author Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote in 1906 in "The Friends of Voltaire": "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Personally, I don't hold out too much hope for the decadent West. This photo, emailed to me by a friend in Cooktown, seems to bear it out:
'Nuff said?
