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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"If you think of the populace of Western democracies—especially but not only the working class—as a colonised population, many things make sense."

Wow this is chilling, true, and additionally disturbing because if I tried to explain it to 9 out of 10 of my friends they'd think I was nuts—cmon, it's a free country, and all those migrants are "just coming here for a better life" and all those journalists and bureaucrats are "just trying to make the world a better place" 🤮...(which proves to my Nietzschean brain once again that once a group captures morality, it's all smooth sailing after that).

I consider Social Justice Inc a new Church/State ruling coalition, which has been the basic ruling scheme since probably the first major civilizations, and which tends to both sides of the bifurcated human brain: the State shaping and directing our bestial needs while making sure the hierarchy remains the same, yet with its subjects still having enough freedom to meet their needs without killing each other; and the Church tending to our angelic side, providing a moral sheen and metaphysical justification for current arrangements, while allowing us all to prove our moral worth to each other by sitting through the required sermons and tithing to the poor box.

And when I think of Church/State dominance, I can't help but think of the Conquistadores who conquered the New World, battering their opponents with the Cross or the sword, depending upon the situation. So the song remains the same, yet now the Conquistadores are coming from inside the house, and they've hogged all the money and all the virtue for themselves. The only consolation is that our current cast of nobles are such obvious nonentities, and our current academic priesthood are such sterile joyless scolds who could turn Mardi Gras into a Struggle Session, that their reign will start to wear sooner than later (or one can hope).

Thanks again for another great piece!

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Lorenzo Warby's avatar

The analogy with religion is explored further in the next essay.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

great! excited to read

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