Quote: (06-17-2018 04:36 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
One thing being left unsaid is why superhero films are so big today.
OK, I understand, that I'll probably lose a lot of you here, but I'll try anyway:
I had a sudden flash of insight last night hearing an off-handed question on a talk I was listening to, about how undignified our Current Leaders have become, and how their petty sniping and childlike-behaviour is being celebrated by everyone, and you can extrapolate this outwards to celebrities, corporations, social institutitions and even the concept of Twitter itself.
The Priest said: "It's a sign of Intemperance. People like it [watching people snipe at each other] because it's indulging their appetites."
We've long understood this here. People keep talking about the need for social media detoxing. Look at Forney perceptively-laughing about me wandering off a few months ago: "He'll be back." He knows, because he's tried and, similarly, failed.
Suddenly, all the different strands of thought I'd been identifying over the last few years came together.
What the priest meant by Intemperance and Indulgence, is a lack of control over the Impassioned Drives of the Lower Faculties, which are based on Emotion, not Reason. Obviously, Temperance and the Ability to Suffer without needing to indulge these passions are formed by The Guiding Moral Virtues, which means you need to grow up in your formative stages with strict Objective Definitions of what is, spiritually, right or wrong.
When a people - meaning,
as a society, deeply lack Moral Virtue, then they are helpless to ignore their passions, and, as such, can only respond to things that appeal to the Lower Faculties, meaning, they fall prey to Emotional (Subjective) Truth rather than Reasoned (Objective) Truth.
As such, they can only bond with Simplistic Ideologies that appeal to their Narcissism, and, as such, are easy prey for
Demagoguery.
WHAT THIS MEANS
- As Quintus could probably explain: historically, it was known that Democracy can't survive a lack of Moral Virtue in its Citizens. It really is a strict objective code of right and wrong that holds everything together. Otherwise, in all recorded patterns, a Society first descends in Demagoguery, then Tyranny.
- This would explain why Reform Judaism / Socialism, branded as 'Progressivism' fights so hard to replace objective truth with subjective truth. It preps the Population for Demagoguery to more quickly speed the descent into Tyranny, which is why they're continually-focused on messing up childhood development in the schooling system.
As I wrote a few years back on here, the SJW's were kept in an early High School Stage of Moral Development: what their peers say is correct is correct, and, as such, there is only black (Traditional) or white (Progressive) thinking. This was what Obama did to Higher Education starting in 2009 - deliberately retarding the moral development of young adults -which became more evident as they started leaving the Universities in 2012 and politicizing everything in the name of the interest group behind Progressivism.
Obama, in himself, was a Demagogue. Bernie. Clinton.
Following on from these thoughts:
- Without Moral Virtue, Interior Life or Nobler concepts such as Honor and Loyalty become Situational, faked as necessary for the achievement of one's own goals. As I've said before, I often have trouble recognising younger men as even being men, for how often they act like backstabbing bitches, and how quickly they can turn on you if you're not providing them with their current narcissistic supply. I've been shocked at the lack of loyalty on here, or how quickly people are pounced upon. I've been confused at the huge impositions younger people ask of you, which, when complied with, usually mean some kind of distracted wandering-off when they understand it's going to involve something hard or uncomfortable (ie. masculine) on their part, preferring being comfortable (ie. effeminate).
- Without Moral Virtue, you'll see a rapid increase in Paganism. I've spoken before about the Toxic Thought Scene of the American West Coast that started seeding into Boomer's Heads in the 1970's. Most of what we're currently-fighting has its roots there. The works that came out of there - Feminism, Satanism, Nazi Occultism, Homosexuality, which were embraced by the socialist and pedophile Science Fiction community pop up again and again, every few years, like a Cancer.
Hell, there's a thread at the moment on the late 70's book 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind', a book I BURNT about ten weeks ago, when I burnt my Parent's sizable Occult Book collection. Why? Everything else in that collection was similarly-toxic, and it came out of the same scene. It pops up regularly, flogged by the Usual Satanic Suspects, Crowley fans, and Transhumanists. Go look at what's scratched into the inner groove of Bowie's 'Boy's Keep Swinging' single.
Note how Satanic or Supernatural fields such as Music, Television and Movies are. How often characters switch allegiances based upon what is what is personally-convenient. About five years ago, I started to realise most characters are now so repugnant because the Writers have no firm concept of Right or Wrong.
- Every time this has previously-happened in History, Democracy become Tyranny after first falling into Demagoguery. It's also a pattern on the Right: Trump, Milo, Peterson, Spencer, etc. All specialise in emotional appeals to your passions and prejudices, meaning, the Lower Faculties are being triggered. This is probably why any concerned criticism of them is met with a strangely-furious response. To criticise the man is to criticise the fan.
- You can't expect people who don't notice their own lack of virtue to notice that their Idols also lack it. As such, they'll follow any Leader who simply makes the people they hate look foolish, conforming to their pre-existing prejudices. You can see his happen on a micro-level on the forum fairly-regularly.
THIS WAS MY ERROR
I made a big error back in 2014 when I discussed how the Degenerate Triad of Symbolic, Emotional and Irrational thinking guaranteed the descent of the Left into a Fascist Mindset, who would see Violence against and Persecution of their enemies as Righteous.
I assumed the Right was virtuous by comparing it to the Left. No, it also follows Subjective Reality, which means, it is also Degenerate, it's just the manner in which disordered behaviour manifest itself varies. As such, the same Triad of Thought would arise, with the same results: Fascism. What will you morally-overlook to see your ideological enemies permanently-removed from the playing field?
WHAT THIS SUGGESTS
We've
all been wrong. There isn't a coming battle. The final collapse of the Democratic US - amongst other nations - has
already happened. As such, it's too late to stop it, because Demagoguery has already come to pass and the minds are already prepped for Fascism. Since most of the population lacks the Virtue to even now see the need to
truly-reverse where we already are - only back up the position on the spiral a little bit - then all that can happen is either a slight easing off of the downward spiral, or a full acceleration into Tyranny.
Trump
can't make America Great again. All he can do is make sure the Inevitable Descent into Tyranny falls on the side of the Right under the Emotional Banner of Patriotism, much like how England has already fallen to the Left under the Emotional Banner of Diversity.
You might sneer at Transgenders in Bathrooms, or Eight Year Old Drag Queens, but have you ever co-inhabited, jacked off, or, especially here, had pre-marital sex, without thinking the Moral Law Matters? If you've done this without repentance, then you've already chosen a Selective interpretation of Virtue, much as I've noted Homosexuals tend to do: every one I've met genuinely-thought they were of a Higher Morality than Christians.
I've been shouting down each little compromise my entire life to no avail I could never convince anyone that each molehill was a disguised mountain. That doesn't say I didn't choose my own compromises out of my own convenience and moral weakness, (I'm as big a Sinner as everyone else and now I can see that Tolerance is simply a form of Spiritual Cowardice). I voiced my own confusion a couple of years back, asking why everyone was only suddenly noticing
now that there was a problem.
So, examine your thinking, and remember the Degenerate Triad.
GOING FORWARD
As Emotional States are encouraged, the childlike nature and moral blindness of the population can only get worse, the blacks growing blacker and the whites growing whiter, with no shades of grey remaining. Conflict is inevitable, though the fear of losing personal discomfort on both sides seems to be all that is holding it back for now, because, being realistic, the numbers of masculine men on either side who can fight this battle in such an effeminate society are small, and they're usually off doing Israel's dirty work overseas. Look at how pathetic-teenage FBI agents now apparently-are. All that can happen, for now, seems to be a culture war of Passive-Aggression, which is what Trump specialises in and is why I find him effeminate. (North Korea didn't happen because of bitchy tweets or Trump's negotiating skill - it happened because the US Military steath-bombed the North Korean nuclear test facility back into the stone age earlier this year, killing a big chunk of their scientists).
The Superhero movies fill a similar void to Trump here: they're Cartoons, written by unseen writers. They appear black and white, but - at least for now, though expect Marvel to double down soon enough and the broken morality of the writers to seep through - they still allow a Subjective Overlay by the viewer, to pretend that the Heroes are on their side when it suits their purposes. (See how both SJW's and Breitbart claimed the success of 'Black Panther' as a moral victory for their side, or how the Left grudgingly-praise Trump for those things that match their values).
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Amend your life, know God and get yourself under the protection of the Natural Law. These are times of Extraordinary Grace, and the Pushes and Consolations are evidencing around me constantly. Part of this seems to be preparing yourself to endure suffering - if you've had the Fasting Push, as so many around me have, trust in it. You're freeing yourself of Demonic Influence every time you tap into your Interior / Supernatural Life which operates on Reason, though, amusingly-enough, entering into it requires a huge leap of Faith. Every time you give into Passion, the SJW's win, particularly as they're living warning of what happens when you do submit to your passions excessively.
Men: get out and do something hard and uncomfortable on a regular basis, to increase your masculinity and to help you fulfill your role under the Law. If you have sons, make them get off the computer.
Choose your allegiances based upon High Standards of Virtue. I said, back in 2013, to find your tribe.
Either way, we've crested the top of the roller coaster. All we can do is hang on and be strong enough not to throw up.
With that, I sense my public business here has concluded. Godspeed, all.