Like Inception

So when she tries to “take the relationship to the next level,” he doesn’t see why. Things are fine as they are. He figured she was good enough for live-in (with options open) but not for marriage, and he knew it pretty early in the relationship.

Theodore Dalrymple reflected upon this:

I once had a patient who attempted suicide because her long-time lover refused to propose to her. I asked him the reason for his refusal, and he replied that it (marriage) was only a piece of paper and meant nothing. “If it is only a piece of paper and means nothing,” I asked him, “why do you not sign it? According to you, it would change nothing, but it would give her a lot of pleasure.” Suddenly, becoming a man of the deepest principle, he said that he did not want to live a charade. —In Praise of Prejudice, by Theodore Dalrymple

She had no idea how she rated, because she gave it all up by the third date.

Indeed.
So much for the utopia promised by “sexual liberation”.

Once you’ve doubled-down on absurdity, on perversity, things patently untrue, and once you’ve made it clear to employees and viewers that corrections are unlikely to be welcome, as the BBC has done, many times, then there’s no coming back. 

Once revealed, a habitual liar cannot and should not be believed.
The BBC, being so deeply corrupted, cannot be reformed–or not without replacing all its staff.

Dating: one problem with current dating is that sex causes a strong bond with almost anyone you have sex with.

What was that famous quote about how we are painfully rediscovering the reasons for traditions, traditions which conservatives had difficulty defending in the sixties because the reasons for those traditions had been forgotten?

I thought it was Chesterton, but all i can find is something about the democracy of the dead.

There’s the famous Chesterton’s Fence:

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”–Why I am a Catholic

But that’s not the quote I was thinking of.

The British Brainwashing Corporation is reaping what it sowed.

AKA the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation.

There are forms of insanity that resemble that. And then there are the increasingly deranged ideologies of the left: “The chittering of ideologically possessed demons” as Jordan Peterson puts it.

Recent events, such as the trans cult and the homeless industry, show that the left really wants us all to be insane.