Militant Misanthropy
I see a dangerous undercurrent of hatred of humankind at work in our global body politic. Failing to dominate humankind, there are forces that have decided to just destroy it and start over.
We live in an age of militant misanthropy.
I don't know any other way to say it.
I awoke this morning to the first thing in my news feed – that Canada just approved assisted suicide for "mature" minors, allowing it without parental consent.
Next in line was the news a Democrat state legislator in Virginia just proposed sending parents to prison if they don’t agree to allow their children to be butchered for the purpose of “gender affirmation”.
With all the attacks on children – from claiming with a straight face that children know they are transgender in the womb to attempts to dislocate kids from their parents and families – when you aim to destroy children physically or mentally, you are clearly attempting to destroy humankind.
The American left says, “children are our future”. As it turns out, this was not a statement of caring, it was a notification of target selection. No children, no future. We should have listened when they said it.
Perhaps more important than having developed the skill of critical thought is the ability to think of things philosophically. Will Durant, in his book “The Story of Philosophy” informs the reader of the historical role of philosophy and what has happened to that role over the centuries. He writes:
“…theology crumbled, and political theory cracked; invention complicated life and war, and economic creeds overturned governments and inflamed the world; philosophy itself, which had once summoned all sciences to its aid in making a coherent image of the world and an alluring picture of the good, found its task of coordination too stupendous for its courage, ran away from all these battlefronts of truth, and hid itself in recondite and narrow lanes, timidly secure from the issues and responsibilities of life. Human knowledge had become too great for the human mind.”
Critical thought helps us reveal the facts, but philosophy allows us to understand what those facts mean. Critical analysis gives us all the pieces, philosophy gives us the box to put them in.
If it seems the absurdity of contemporary life is increasing, I will not argue that point.
Life has always been absurd, and while several branches of philosophical thought evolved to try to explain and understand it, it does seem that forces are conspiring today to create absurdity for the sake of creating absurdity. It is my belief that this is not a random occurrence, rather it is a “movement” of sorts, one coincidental rather that coordinated and driven by a shared ignorance, a state of mental laziness and surrender to the seductive, easy desires of the emotional being that are often destructive over the often distasteful and difficult – and ultimately correct – rational choices.
One can initiate political chaos, but if you want to create ABSOLUTE chaos – and I mean Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers Infinity War level chaos in all dimensions of society – you can’t do that on a nation-to-nation basis – attacks on nations stimulate tribalism and nationalism and lead to a definitive winner. One country will defeat the other or an alliance of countries will defeat another alliance – the conflict becomes binary, antagonist vs. protagonist, good vs. evil, winners vs. losers. No, you can’t afford to do anything that binds people together, your objective is to break them apart. Like nuclear fission, you must attack and break the most basic individual bonds, in this case, not of atoms but those of humanity – and more than that, you must get individual humans to attack each other. You must break down any commonality tying people together – common religion, national allegiance, race identity, marriage, family, even love…like a going out of business sale, everything must go.
A dislocation of human existence of this magnitude can only be accomplished by using the 3 M’s – misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy.
Men must despise women; women must despise men and humans must despise humanity.
These are the 3M’s of national, cultural, and societal destruction.
Complete and total chaos.
And this is happening. Our traditional founding institutions are being destroyed, all are declining in power and influence. Gays ally with transsexuals to attack heterosexuals and then attack each other. Feminists attack men, the “men’s rights” movement attacks feminists. The rich are attacked by both progressive rich and the poor. Blacks attack whites while despising Hispanics and Asians.
These are facts. No need for critical thought, simple observation reveals this is happening.
Over 200 years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus proposed that catastrophes such as famine, disease and war are the manners in which Nature culls the population.
Thankfully, Western Civilization has largely found ways to avoid such catastrophes – or at least to blunt them. That is a wonderful accomplishment – and if one is truly honest about it, the reason for this is that the ideas of individual social and economic freedom are what unleashed the power of the human mind in a scale never seen in world history.
It seems that while painful catastrophes like the Great Depression and WWII do cull the population, they also serve to cull from society the irrationality, a lack of seriousness and triviality that are so celebrated in our intellectually lazy society today.
When people are free to build, unfortunately that freedom can be used by some who wish to destroy. The latter seem never to want to improve the society that generates that freedom, they want to burn it to the ground and replace it with something else that is even less capable of delivering them what the claim to desire.
The first step to solving a problem is properly defining the problem.
The first step in winning a war is properly defining the enemy.
Folks, I am not the first to say it, but it is something we all need to say, and say it out loud. We are not just fighting a periodic battle for political control, we are fighting a constant, continual, perpetual war against pure evil.
In Lakota, Cheyenne, and several other Plains Nations there were the "contraries", or heyoka. There were also those, always male, who were called winkte, or 'wants to be like a woman'. There was no stigma associated with these 'reverse warriors, the heyoka, that spoke and acted in the opposite manner of what the culture deemed "normal" behavior. They were often revered, but the very real truth of the matter is they are a very tiny minority of the population and at times, no tribe, or family group had anyone that could be counted among the contraries.
It seems these once small minorities have been glorified (not revered or respected) in western culture to the point that even commenting on their existence and its contrary nature, brings shrill and boisterous response from those that demand the "normals" accept every single contrary act or expression. Before European influence came to the Great Plains, most Nations knew they could not live long or happily if too many contraries rose up among them. Banishment or enslavement were not uncommon if contraries grew too numerous or influential.
Seems we have yet to learn that lesson.
You Sir , have identified our global problem.
Indeed this struggle is global. There is no nation free of this awful evil movement.