Have you ever wondered why history seems to repeat itself? Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s because we humans have a knack for finding trouble where there isn’t any. And that’s especially true when it comes to the collapse of civilizations.

Now, let’s take a walk down memory lane and visit the good ol’ days of Ancient Greece and Rome. These two fine establishments were not just about togas and Coliseums. No, they had something else in common: a peculiar obsession with gender as their empires approached the brink of collapse.

You see, it’s like this: when things are going well, humans have this weird tendency to look for problems that don’t exist. It’s almost as if we have an innate drive to screw things up – and what better way to do that than to make something simple like gender into a confusing obsession more important than real life? I mean, it’s the perfect distraction!

Let me tell you a story. When I was a kid, we had a dog named Fluffy (real creative name, I know). Now, Fluffy was a happy dog, always wagging her tail and licking your face. But sometimes, when there was nothing else to do, she’d chase her tail, round and round in circles. It was hilarious to watch, but she’d do it so much that she’d end up biting her tail and hurting herself.

And that, my friends, is where the animal kingdom and human history collide. When there’s no real conflict, we – like our canine counterparts – seem to have this instinct to find a way to make our lives more… exciting. We go down these weird roads, fixating on things like gender as our empires crumble around us.

Take the Ancient Greeks, for example. Now, they were some smart cookies, but when their society began to unravel, they got all tangled up in the complexities of gender roles. They started asking questions like, “Hey, what if a man was a woman, or a woman was a man, and what about all the novel things I could do with my genitals and its combinations with another, including the thrill of transgression against normal behavior people have done for millennia?” And so began a whole lot of confusion and debate that only made things worse.

But the Romans, oh, they had to outdo the Greeks, of course. They took this gender obsession and ran with it, straight into the ground. Men were wearing dresses, women were wearing pants, and everyone was just plain confused. And while they were busy trying to figure out who was who and what was what, their empire was crumbling around them.

Now, you might be thinking these are just cherry-picked examples to make my point. But history is littered with examples of societies that, when faced with a lack of real problems, went down some strange and treacherous paths. It’s as if we have this uncanny ability to create chaos and confusion where none should exist.

As society starts to fracture, people become idle, and with idleness comes the tendency to overthink things and start drifting way off target. It’s as if our brains are saying, “Hey, we’ve got nothing better to do, so let’s fixate on something relatively inconsequential and blow it way out of proportion.”

And what’s the end result? Well, usually, it’s the collapse of the society in question. Just like Fluffy biting her tail, we end up inflicting serious harm on ourselves as we chase after non-existent problems. And all the while, the real issues – the crumbling infrastructure, the political corruption, the economic instability – go unaddressed.

What we need is to go back to tried and true values that once made society strong and capable. It’s time to focus on restoring unity, organizing things sensibly, and having good old-fashioned respect for one another. We need to remember that there’s more to life than five hundred make believe genders and identifying with the latest sexual fetishes to get a thrill.

So, what can we learn from all this? Well, maybe it’s time we started focusing on the real problems facing our world, rather than getting bogged down in endless debates about gender and identity. Because let’s face it: as history has shown us time and time again, when we ignore the big issues and fixate on the small ones, we’re only setting ourselves up for a colossal collapse.