Back in May 2013, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d been noticing a concerted push in recent years by the New York Times to prepare the media, which tends to slavishly follow the agenda set by the NYT concerning what is news that fits to print, to make the Next Big Thing in the wake of the imminent triumph of their gay marriage campaign (what I called World War G) be the promotion of transgenderism (World War T).
Since that accurate prediction, I’ve often been asked: “What’s next?”
Many assume it must be pedophilia, but I see little evidence for a trend in that direction compared to two generations ago when, weirdly, Nabokov’s Lolita could be a colossal bestseller. These days, progressives are even trying to shame 40 year old men into not marrying women in their 20s (so they can marry women in their 40s.)
Finally, in this decade I came around to forecasting publicly that polygamy/polyamory, World War P, seems like the next big thing on the elite agenda.
Indeed, mentions of the word “polyamory” in the bellwether New York Times went from rare to routine when transgenderism took off in the mid-2010s. This year appear on track to double last year’s record
On the other hand, what has not happened yet is the polygamy/polyamory link-up I’ve predicted in which polyamorist tech dudes born without the jealousy gene form a political alliance with polygamist African patriarchs who want to import all their various wives and children based on the notion that “Love is love.”
Compared to the 26 articles so far in 2024 mentioning “polyamory,” the New York Times has only run four articles so far this year referring to “polygamy.”
At this point, the existence of polygamy in African and Muslim countries apparently strikes the media class as a “trope” and thus should be mentioned as seldom as possible to keep potential Bad People from developing a stereotype about certain kinds of immigrants.
But, I could see Poly Pride taking off as an alliance of swingers and Africans/Muslims if Trump gets back in and then immigration policy becomes, as during the last Trump Administration, a favorite media club with which to tar Trump as cruel. Remember the “kids in cages” media mania of 2018?
Biden just announced the legalization of illegal immigrants if they are married to an American. Presumably, it’s assumed that will get only one spouse in. But, considering the titanic jobs of socially constructing absurd fads like transgenderism among teenage girls that the media have pulled off in recent years, the idea that a few years from now it will be considered hatefully racist and Islamophobic to restrict the number of spouses let in to only one hardly seems outlandish.
I think the 'poly' thing has its own internal 'coalition of the fringes' problems, even leaving aside the African and Muslim angle.
> de facto polygyny = alpha-male / male-dominated harems and/or 'serial monogamy', a tale as old as time, both white (Boris Johnson, Elon Musk) and black (Nick Cannon, Antonio Cromartie, Travis Henry) versions - women both publicly hate and secretly love them
> "swingers" = right-coded, military/police, Florida Man types, culmination of 'libertarian barstool conservatism' (Ashli Babbitt, Christian Ziegler)
> 'polyamory' = genderfluid Brooklyn 'cuddle puddle' types, culmination of 'gender theory' as bioleninist revenge of the spiteful mutants (stereotypically unattractive, masculine women & feminine men)
> 'open marriage' = blue-state AWFL laptop-class women, culmination of feminism (Miranda July, Molly Roden Winter)
"...mentions of the word “polyamory” in the bellwether New York Times went from rare to routine when transgenderism took off in the mid-2010s"
If the y-axis shows total articles in the entire year that 'mention' the word, it cannot be called routine, I think, if only coming in at a rate of 10 to 20 per year, or one to two per month. The projected 2024 rate, though, gets up to one per week. That meets my arbitrary criteria for "routine," or nearly so. But still not "yet" at the threshold needed to fulfill the Sailer Next-Big-Thing political prophecy.
On the other hand, many of the 2023 and 2024 mentions of "polyamory" might be references or followings-on, first- or second-order, to the Sam Bankman-Fried affair. (Late-2022 collapse of FTX, his celebrity status for a long while, finally his arrest, then trial and conviction in spring 2024).