JTarrou
2d ago
Back in the seventies there was a series of "Death Wish" style vigilante movies that served as a B-movie critique of the dominant liberal legal order and its criminal consequences. No doubt something will serve that role in our current reprise of that history. Not sure it will all be movies, that seems a dead medium to me, but the ability to get it banned suggests otherwise.
JTarrou
3d ago
Deranged internet leftists have never been able to stampede major institutions into implementing their demands? It's all online screeching until the DOJ mandates the screeching.
So yeah, I'm gonna stay in the pocket on this one too.
JTarrou
3d ago
The steelman is that a 30-yo man having a normal, consensual relationship with a legal adult female age 24 is something that currently can fall under "pedophilia" in the national discourse. The issue isn't that "real" pedophilia has some redeeming quality (it doesn't), it's that because of that very evil, we will never be able to define it narrowly enough to stay pure evil. People will always be looking to smear that taint onto stuff that isn't quite, or even close to pedophilia.
And anyone who argues the minutia (e.g. "ephebophilia") just gets bulldozed as "pro-pedo".
JTarrou
5d ago
We're seeing a lot of caretaker governments by nonentities in Europe these days. They get these unstable coalitions to try to keep the "far right" (usually the center left actually) out of power, which are unpopular and constantly lose elections, but always staple together the ruling class to keep the troglodytes out. Meanwhile parties on the actual right are forming to outflank the relatively liberal (Reform, AFD, FN etc) opposition parties.
The opposition becomes steadily less controlled.
It's not that the state is a church. It's that the class of people who staff the bureaucracy have a deracinated protestant heresy which they have entrenched in the university system which serves as the great filter for the middle and upper classes. They (in a very complicated and messy and unorganized manner over several generations) then declared the traditional concept of meritocracy against the Constitution and replaced it with what X might call "gay race communism", the true religion of the capitalist managerial class. Forever decrying the system they are parasitized on, and the populations they rule. It is only by this "eternal revolution" that they can maintain the class solidarity needed to rule the empire. Everything old must be destroyed forever so that each generation can in turn be divided and ruled along lines of class or race or religion or sexuality. Hilariously, the religion essentially exists as a critique of itself. It calls for the constant abolition of the economy that sustains it, the nationalism that empowers it and the social order that submits to their bureaucratic will.
Just as in the old days, this church controls the official Science, all official education, its monasteries and charitable organizations serve as conduits for political power and influence. And just as with any state religion, the personal and class interests of the adherents inevitably influence some amount of their doctrines. The amorphous nature of the ideology is sort of the point, it can change on a dime when political winds change. You can always revolt against the revolutionaries from twenty years ago.
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