i'm pretty sure if you read paul graham's articles on censorship (hacker & painter, wiki page for 'graham's hierarchy of censorship', etc) it'd be more clear.

i think there's always been a brain-washing element of it. for example alan turing saved millions of lives by breaking the enigma and thereby ended wwii years earlier, but was chemically castrated for being gay, which led to his tragic suicide. had he pursue his interest later in life, 'computational biology', we will probably have more ethnic AI and gain priceless insights in the field. so...that's kinda brain-washing, washing away very useful human brains. paul graham is one of those few souls seeing through these everlasting brain-washing schemes so clearly. (i once thought aaron schwartz and noam chomsky did..but i'm sure they have unique pieces to this puzzle.)

so...if you're gay and witnessed all these, you know fag drags (that is one word, nsfl), along with tchaikovski and numerous other talented gay people suffer just for being gay, what would you do? i for one thing would get political. what's that song? 'we can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn, that the union makes us strong!' right. all lesbians and gays who used to feel nothing toward each other are brought together by...you guessed it, suffering, oppression ,etc. interestingly, christiantiy started in a simiar way. it did it with a cross, that is.

but what's the best way to break a haughty power? right, by another haughty power. don't talk to me about ghandi, look at chairman mao. that's how yout roll, that's how you do things. and by the way, when you're up against ussr, you need a moral highground. so you widen the sufferage and write the powell memorendum. you know, smart moves.

so here we are today. i for one thing is a much bigger fan for all kinds of love beyond the nuclear family than a nuclear war.

edit: today pope francis must feel the same partly due to the guilt he felt to his argentenian christian brothers who were murdered in the seventies, trauma in that kinda atmosphere does make people liberal. old age makes people brave indeed.