I’m not entirely happy with this post, but it’s a worthwhile exploration of themes going through my head. The true horror of modern times is not the existence of evil… it always exists… or even the ascendance of evil, which invariably happens from time to time.
It is… THIS time only… the total absence of opposition against evil. We’re now at the stage of cops protecting trannies molesting children from the childrens’ parents, as publicly decreed by the State.
How Modern Man’s desire for self-annihilation at death has led (via inverted values) to the societal self-destruction of The West
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By Bruce Charlton, 1 September 2023
It seems that the ultimate desire of “evil” is that Men should desire their own annihilation.
I don’t disagree, but it’s not that simple. We aren’t talking about sewer-cide here. Throwing off God in favor of other gods or humanism has always been popular, but throwing off God in favor of oblivion? Not so much.
I am saying that the ultimate reason that Modern Men do not believe in life beyond death, is that Men do not want life after death: Modern Men instead want annihilation at death.
I am saying that in this situation; desire causes belief, not the other way around.
Desire is almost always the cause of belief. It is a mistake to believe that the average person has been reasoned into his current worldview. “I want to believe” is a first principle of human behavior. Or to put it negatively, it’s hard to convince a man of something when his paycheck required him to not believe it.
Doc Brown in my last post is just such an example. He believes in climate change because his job is climate research, which he chose because that’s where the grant money is today. It would be very self-denying if he connected all the dots of “they’re paying me to backstop their totalitarian agenda” and had to repudiate his life’s work, so instead, he wrote an article connecting enough of the dots to blame other people but not himself.
If we assume that desire causes belief, and belief causes Men’s values; and if Men’s values cause Men’s behaviour; then we may infer that the fundamental nature of Modern Society is ultimately a consequence of Modern Men’s desires.
Therefore – given that Modern Men desire annihilation, it should not be surprising that Modern Society seeks its own annihilation; nor should it be surprising that this operates via increasingly-explicit value-inversion.
Mr. Charlton did not made the case for his assumption. WHY do Modern Men desire annihilation? The keyword is “desire”. They do not want Christ because they see benefit in rejecting ANY life after death. They aren’t chasing religions that offer reincarnation. They aren’t even doing the Pharaoh thing of being worshiped postmortem. As hard as they’ll try to extend their mortal lives, they clearly want to believe that death is the Hard Stop.
Why? Progressivism. The belief that newer is always better, that with sufficient tech, morality becomes obsolete and we can be as gods. But eliminating the need for God is not the same thing as eliminating God Himself, now is it? Thus, it is desirable for Progressives to believe that death is the end… that there is only the material world.
Denying God’s existence gives Modern Man the lebensraum to Progress into godhood for himself.
If a man believes that there is no life after death, then he is instantly freed from responsibility to anybody but himself and exempted from every moral code so long as he doesn’t get caught. Life becomes a negative-sum game instead of positive-sum: everybody is screwed, so improve your quality-of-life by screwing your neighbor before he screws you. Somebody was gonna end up with all that copper wiring in the walls, right?
This is sometimes referred to as Keynesian Economics.
By contrast, if Man lived forever then, at some point, somehow, his past would catch up to him. As Alan Keynes infamously justified the instability of his system, “in the long run we’re all dead anyway.”
And of course, once a man travels any distance down that road of doing evil in hopes of dying before the evil hurts, recovery is not just hard; it’s undesirable.
What is truly astonishing about Modern Society (especially in the West, and where Western values dominate) – and what is apparently unprecedented in world history – is that the fundamentals of human biological life have become officially and systematically denied, destroyed, and inverted.
Something as biologically natural and spontaneous as eating and drinking are under continual assault, top-down; to dissociate them from anything natural, to delete whatever is instinctive, to reshape and invert preferences. We often get ‘idealistic’ depictions of a future in which grossly unnatural and distorted foods and drinks are regarded as progress: in which such a situation is regarded as moral progress.
I hope that is true but fear that it isn’t. There’s a post that I’m building up towards. For now, weakening the body… specifically by not eating meat… is a known way to weaken the barrier between the soul and hostile spirits.
Also, note that this Agenda is being pushed by a very small handful of people upon a very large planet of people who 1. don’t want it and 2. are unwilling to resist it.
My theory of death-is-the-ultimate-liberator doesn’t explain this lack of resistance to imposed destruction. This is not a case of “everybody for himself” any more than it’s a case of “sewer-cide”.
Something as biologically natural and spontaneous as family, is likewise subjected to inversion following decades of successful destruction. Natural and biological family is increasingly depicted as innately evil, oppressive, exploitative; and “anything-else” is deliberately (with upfront financial and status rewards) mass-presented in idealized ways, with an inbuilt assumption of their superiority.
A good case study. Nobody rejects life-after-death in order to maltreat their children. The all-about-me materialist isn’t the one pushing the value-inversion. But he IS the one accepting it without a fight?!
There’s a generational cycle that I’ve seen with Communism. The first generation of atheists is raised religious and therefore, acts morally out of habit even after they discard God. Their children are carefully NOT taught morality by their parents, so… guess who does. Satan. Marx. The radicals. The criminals who embrace the ethos of “do what thou wilt” with no legacy hangups about envying your neighbor’s cow.
The third generation gets taught the same lies but by then, everything is stolen and they quickly realize the need to become independent of the increasingly desperate State. What they choose to replace the State with depends greatly upon what survives the culture purges of those, quoting Michael Savage, red diaper doper babies.
This three-generation pattern is no longer holding true. The first generation is rejecting God in favor of… nothing. Void. No belief system, no charismatic leaders, no moral code, just Progress Fixes All. Also, there’s no third generation. This time, the ((Marxists)) are programming the second generation to die, not to rebel. This is neither the self-annihilation that Mr. Charlton talks about, nor the Crowley-style self-empowerment that I talked about above.
This is the technocracy taking hold (and losing its grip). What was previously done by loyalists indoctrinated from birth, is now to be done by AI and microchip implants. The denizens of Hell no longer want human servants.
I will have an example at the end.
I regard these mainstream, official, totalitarian-imposed social-aspects of Modern Life; as distal consequences of the proximate desire for self-annihilation that characterizes Modern Man.
Put differently: the ultimate cause of the inverted values which are destroying Western Society (and probably, to some large extent, the whole world) – is the positive wish of so many individual Western Men to be utterly annihilated (body and mind/ soul/ spirit) when they die.
My conclusion is that the ultimate cause of the inverted-moral destruction of Western Society, is that supernatural evil is taking advantage of the spiritual vacuum created by atheist Progressivism. The Satanists spent decades liberating women from patriarchy but at this point, they can (and have) imposed State-sanctioned child molestation in mere weeks.
No Western authority is willing to fight back because it cannot fight evil with its Progressive assumption that there is no evil, there is only a temporary technological incapacity to digest evil. This is why American governments have made several attempts to ban GAE’s child molestation policies, which have already been banned for millennia because it’s child molestation. We don’t need more rules. We need all the rope in Texas and a big oak tree.
The unexpected consequence of the wholesale extermination of Christianity from the West, has been total self-disarmament against supernatural embodiments of evil.
Time for that example:
Elon Musk blames school for rift with daughter: .She doesn’t want to spend time with me.
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Elon Musk blames his trans daughter’s progressive school for their now nonexistent relationship, according to a recent excerpt of an upcoming biography on the X, formerly known as Twitter, owner published in The Wall Street Journal.
Musk’s daughter, who legally changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson in 2022, came out as trans when she was 16. Wilson . who goes by her middle name, Jenna . did not tell her now-estranged father she was trans.
The Tesla CEO heard about his daughter’s transition from someone else, according to Walter Isaacson, who spent over three years following Musk and who is the author of the upcoming biography.
His estranged relationship with his daughter is why Musk, according to Isaacson, has adopted a so-called “anti-woke sentiments.” Musk often publicly complains about the alleged “dangers” of the “woke mind virus.” According to Isaacson, Musk told him that “unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilization will never become multiplanetary.“
THAT is how he chose to phrase, “they sodomized my little girl”?
Well, Mr. Musk… not to kick you while you’re down… but the alien freaks that you’re searching for in space, just colonized your daughter. Maybe the trip to encounter other intelligences won’t be as long as you expect.
Maybe you shouldn’t have chosen to become a god instead of a father.
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X ? A-12: Elon Musk and Grimes confirm baby name
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No need for the article. They obviously didn’t choose that name because they thought it would be good for the kid. Musk is the guy bringing humanity to the stars while abandoning his kids to an extradimensional incursion of Nephilim.
Musk also partly blames his daughter’s ideology and decision to cut him out of her life on Crossroads, a progressive school Jenna attended in Los Angeles, Isaacson wrote. Musk believes, according to Isaacson, that Twitter “had become infected by a similar mindset that suppressed right-wing and anti-establishment voices.”
No, Musk. Don’t blame the school. Don’t blame her ‘choice of ideology’. Her story is typical of daughters abandoned by celebrity fathers. You did not corrupt her, but you DID assume that she could not be corrupted. Because Progress.
I would happily watch SpaceX fight Black Cube in a no-holds smackdown for world domination. But. Elon Musk cannot solve the problem of his ruined daughter by defeating globohomo, because the problem is Elon Musk being too busy being Elon Musk to be Daddy. He left her vulnerable to outsiders and then was surprised when the inevitable happened. He didn’t want to miss out on any lifetime achievements before the Hard Stop hits. Anybody can breed, right? But Starlink and rocket ships, fuck yeah!
The collapse of Christianity is having a similar effect at a grander scale. Society claimed there is no spiritual realm in order to excuse its abandoning God. Now that devils are rushing in to fill the spiritual vacuum, our authorities are paralyzed, unwilling to believe their own lying eyes.
I think Musk’s kid is actually a son named Xavier–which underlines your point about annihilation.