Houston Has A Rainbow/Pride Police Cruiser

Amazing, the change from the past:

If Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo has anything to say about it, his officers will shine at the head of the city’s Pride Parade.

The department’s new “Pride Car” is ready to go. It’s gassed up. Rainbow decals gleam from every side, saluting Houston’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Acevedo plans to be front and center Saturday and he’s strongly encouraged his top leadership to join him in the march.

“By actually participating … we send a very powerful message that we’re an inclusive department,” he said, “where every segment of society is welcome, is respected, and will be protected by the Houston Police Department.”

But not everyone is ready to join the parade. The prospect of marching in the free-spirited gay-rights celebration has some members of his leadership crying foul, and pictures of the festive cruiser sparked contentious debate on social media from nonplussed naysayers.

“Our duty is to protect and serve, not participate in an event that completely goes against our religious beliefs,” said one commander, who asked not to be identified.

I am very zen about these things now. Fifteen years ago I would have blown a fuse contemplating the stupidity of this, the mark of the decline it represented, and the fact so many others in the nation would happily follow the path of Rome, destroying the US and all its freedoms.

But now I am no more upset about this than I would be about the sky being blue. Like the color of the sky, this merely is, what is.

Here is a picture of what is being celebrated:

I remember the time when everyone would have curled up their lips in revulsion on seeing that picture. I remember when nobody with a brain would have wanted that anywhere near their children. But now public officials celebrate it.

This is a programmed psychological shift. It happens, because the brains in the populace are designed to change this way when resources are free. Now we have made the change from a psychology bent on competing and avoiding the bad, to not caring about the bad, and focusing our striving on the avoidance of conflict and the attainment of maximal social status in the populace.

This Police chief has the best psychology for when times are r. He is avoiding conflict with r’s, in an r-time when no K would ever attack him, and he is doing it flamboyantly to elevate his own social status in a population that is high in r. In a state of nature that would maximize mating opportunities and allow him to achieve a high status that will protect him from conflict even more, all in a time when there is no risk or downside to the behavior.

The amazing thing is how r’s and K’s cannot understand each other. I look at that picture of the two gays, and cannot imagine how the entire populace is not freaked out by that to the point of filling the jails. Rabbits can’t fathom how anyone would oppose it. And as we complete the K-shift, we will watch the populace gradually shift back to a psychology that cannot tolerate it. Our great-grandkids will probably call up these old photos, and look on in astonishment at the bizarre freakshow civilization had once become.

I suspect it will answer a lot of questions they will have about how civil society could possibly have let the horrors that we have to come, come to transpire.

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