For conservatives the sudden urgency of accommodating the transgendered in the nation’s bathrooms is incomprehensible. Where could such madness come from? I’m glad you asked, because my Three Peoples theory explains the whole procedure to you. The point is that ever since the Death of God -- with Hume in the 18th century, or Nietzsche in the 19th or Time magazine in 1965 -- the folks I call the People of the Creative Self have been imagining new gods. In our age the reigning gods are now the gods of creativity. Young scions of the ruling class express a yearn to “do something creative” with their lives -- videography, or activism, perhaps. And it all started with the Death of God to the educated classes beginning in the late 18th century, although I like to push the start date back a bit to Michelangelo’s “David” as the Birth of the Ego. When I look at the David I do not see David, or the beauty of marble, but the self-advertisement...(Read Full Article)