The newest meme is MeTooTwo. To make streets safe for women, you Run a heater--blow a plume into cool night, marking doors unlocked: Shelter for women if attacked. Fools! Just hang a sign: "Come in, O burglars!" At least, between robberies, you'll save kilowatts off your utilities. I stroll the street at dusk. New Year. Brisk. But tongues of heat disrupt the winter-chill. Tenth time, I lose my patience as I feel hot breath on neck. The waste. The risk. I step up to a porch. Front door. Through. Foyer. Turn the heater off; leave and lock. Next door. Next. Ward the whole block! Antiburglar, hot air, fools. I wake in shock.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Hot then cold: I've been getting recurrent chills and fever. At night, it causes weird dreams of alternating hot and cold like this.
• ACTION (short-term): hunker down and rest! A new attack's kicking in.
• Unlocked doors: I was raised by idealistic leftists who taught me to be nice and trust we all were, under the skin. I dutifully tried to believe I had no enemies, that malice was a mere mistake. I now think that didn't just cripple my streetsmarts, social life and business behavior--I think it even crippled my immune system! I should befriend invading parasites and plagues...
  Of course it's not a political blindspot. None of you are so foolish. Just me.
• Hot-air feminism: Face that much of it is. Identity politics, censorship in the name of niceness, the refusal to believe in enemies or defenses--my dream sees all that as hot air. What I support is equal rights--but (as Bernie Sanders points out) equal rights have real enemies--the rich and powerful, and their dogs. Trusting everyone's fatally irresponsible.
• ACTION (long-term): Face that you have enemies--viral, bacterial, parasitic, and human. Thieves out to rob you, rivals out to beat you, predators out to eat you, parties out to cheat you. The world isn't all dog-eat-dog, but bad dogs exist, and ignoring them's delusional. Sadly, delusional is how I was raised. Grow up.

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