“...in Romania in the late 1920s, syphilis-envy figured in his adolescent expectations of literary glory: he would discover that he had contracted syphilis, be rewarded with several hyper productive years of genius, then collapse into madness...But with AIDS...”
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I can see how the left would fall for Soviet propaganda that said AIDS was invented by the CIA. They wanted to believe something like that, and the propaganda would find its niche.
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Not inconceivable that paedophilia would have been decriminalised in the West if AIDS hadn’t happened. I guesstimate it delayed same-sex marriage by about 10-15 years. You can watch TV discussion shows from 1970s where same-sex marriage was already under debate.
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