Everybody surely concurs that the faculty of laughter is both an exclusive characteristic of the human being which differentiates him from the irrational animals and one of the states of the soul most mysterious and difficult to explain. Quite frequently, this faculty is the reaction of our feelings to something comical or ridiculous, although it can also emerge as a defensive position against what is tragic: I do not know whether to laugh or to cry, for example, is a commonly heard expression. And justly so, for it is not infrequent that when the human being has to face horrible and unusual situations which frighten him, he shields himself behind feelings which try to camouflage them, take them away from his mind, or at least give them a nuance which, although it is always perceived as a fallacy, alleviates or dilutes his reaction at accepting those situations as they truly are. Laughter, therefore, has an ambivalent character which is used sometimes to disguise, justify, forget or take away from one’s mind ideas which one does not even want to remember. 

            Consequently, the adjective tragic-comical is more topical than what it could seem. For a tragic consequence of a deliberately sought-after and accepted situation always appears associated to what is ridiculous, even if it does not seem so at first sight or if great efforts have been made to hide it. This explains the fact that the anguished and tragic Post-Christian society of the twenty-first century, which has rejected God in such an absolute way, is simultaneously the most laughable burlesque of a human conglomerate the history of the World has ever known –Saint Paul had already warned us about this situation, underlining its possible tragic consequences: Do not be deceived; God is not mocked (Gal 6:7); so much so that one could say that we are living in a society which has given itself over to totally living in and feeding on the Farce.

            The elements exerting great influence in our modern society are so many, and so huge is their capacity to manipulate people’s minds, that they have turned modern humanity into a universal Puppet-Theater in which even the puppet masters who manipulate the strings are part of the Farce. If the Devil is the Father of Lies (Jn 8:41), then he also is truly the Prince of this World (Jn 12:31); hence he has succeeded in making it a gigantic Theater in which men, wearing the proper costumes for the occasion, play their roles and try to appear as what they are not and to hide what they are.

            The Farce wields its power all over the modern world; but it is a Puppet-ring Farce whose predominant characters belong to the Comedy of Burlesque. Men, bent as they are on playing at all costs the clown’s role, have ended up by believing their own clownish stunts. Therefore, men consider what is extremely ridiculous (and very often abominable) as if it were lofty and sublime –subverting, in doing so, the order of things and turning upside down all the values. Hence, their conduct appears as being tragic and comic at the same time; although the latter, having lost its entire possible comic element, should be termed ridiculous rather than anything else.

            An example of all this is what has happened to the issue of the sexes. Both sexes have been designed by God (or by Nature, should you not accept God) to possess equal dignity and different, albeit complementary, characteristics, as well as different functions to accomplish. Yet men are intent on suppressing them as such to satisfy the alleged demands of equality, or so they say. This, and nothing else, is what is intended when men elevate homosexuality from its low level as an aberration to the height of what is just, honest, and even sublime. Once men have decided to subvert all the laws of nature, all logic, and all truth, then what is white has become black and what is black has become white. And all of this has happened with the acquiescence and applause of a human society which has reached its deepest extremes of degradation.

            A mere examination of the human organism makes patent the fact that sexes have been made different because one is for the other, in the first place, and because they are called on to carry out different, complementary functions (it is impossible for one sex to do the functions of the other) which also are essential: woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman, said Saint Paul (1 Cor 11:11). Any attempt at using the organs of the body in a different way or places other than those for which they have been ordained and directed is acting against Nature, no matter what anyone may say to the contrary. And acting against Nature and the logical order of things is extremely ridiculous as well as abhorrent. It goes without saying that this reality can be denied, as one can deny that two plus two makes four or that the night follows the day; as the old proverb goes, there is more strength in the stubbornness of a mule than in Aristotle’s proofs.

            On the other hand, homosexuality or lesbianism inexorably implies loathing for the other sex. To have sexual activity with a person of the same sex means that he, or she, who so behaves considers the human being to be a mere animal, a lump of flesh, whose only purpose it to procure me pleasure; it also means that the practitioners of this aberration consider that the opposite sex is good for nothing and only deserve their disdain and underestimation, that is, to be estimated less.

            The present situation of our society is but the outburst of the fully decomposed human anthill. At this rate, poisoned by the above-mentioned mentality –which has made many men look and feel like women, and even many women (the beautiful sex with its feminine charm) stubbornly want to become tomboys— our human society, deprived of virility and femininity, cannot last very long. Our classics and the Historians of Antiquity say that the decadence of Sparta began like this and ended with the extinction of the famous State-city: The Spartan women are more interested in fighting, bathing in the Eurotas River, and practicing the martial arts than in bearing offspring.[1]