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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023

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I envisage a time when collaboration with the current regime will be treated like collaboration with the Mid-Century Germans after the Nuremberg Trials.

Largely ignored except in the most cases of the most horrific crimes against humanity? To quote Mallory Archer in the interest of illustrative hyperbole:

After the war ended we were snatching up kraut scientists like hotcakes. You don't believe me? Walk into NASA some time and yell "Heil Hitler" whoop! They all jump straight up.

I can't take anyone seriously as a political thinker advocating real regime change if they're not intimately familiar with the difference between de-Nazification and de-Baathification. His use of post-war Germany as his measuring stick for how things will look after his Glorious Revolution means that he's either a braindead moron or attempting to covertly signal that he really doesn't mean this entire article. Occam's razor suggests blah blah blah.

Academic Agent is advocating for de-Baathification, which was such a ludicrous and laughable failure on every conceivable metric that anyone seriously advocating for it is obviously retarded, and should be sent to the kids corner with all the rest of the Stormfront reading smoothbrains while the actual adults have a serious conversation.

I’m thinking more of a reverse Maoist revolution. Completely remake the culture, ban the bad stuff and purge those who advocate it from all positions of power. Remove cultural artifacts that promote that same bad stuff. Promote the new culture: traditional families, American traditional culture, Christian ethics, and capitalism. Promote useful education and the study of the Western canon.

Christian ethics, and capitalism

i know people like to define christian ethics however they like but jesus in the new testament does not seem to agree with the capitalist mentality:

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Jesus's teachings were impractical. Typical millenarian preacher; world is going to end soon, why bother with Gnon-compliance? Focus on making sure you are ready for the next world. Repent! The Kingdom of God is at hand.

Which is why actual Christianity is mostly based on the teachings of Paul, not Jesus. As long as you tithe your 10%, show up to Church once a week, and make a token effort at avoiding sin, you can live a normal life pursuing money and status and still go to heaven.

It's intellectually bankrupt, but it works; whereas a civilization of holy fools would be unsustainable.

Which is why actual Christianity is mostly based on the teachings of Paul, not Jesus.

This makes a lot of things click into place for me. I guess I know now how the tension between the scripture and the people who read it is resolved.

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