Sex and culture

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Parodites: Then you’re turning your back on thousands upon thousands of years of your ancestors struggling, suffering, and dying, leading up to your own parents, and all of it staked only to push your genotype forward into the future, whose line of descent you are cutting by refusing to progenate. Think of all those people: 500,000 years of struggle, how many millions of lives, just to get your genes here, and you’re blithely throwing all of that effort, suffering, triumph, war, and death into the trashcan with your used up condom (or kleenex) because you don’t want the financial or time-burden of a child to eat into your gaming schedule or whatever TF else you do with your free time that you think is so important. As Plato said, the only people with the right to not reproduce are philosophers, who produce epic works of intellect that transmutes their genotype into ideas that will survive the ages and do honor to their ancestors and bloodline in the place of their physical offspring, as the immortal, divine offspring of the mind. You’re probably not one of those.

Some dummy girl on Youtube: if the only reason you’re having kids is to “continue the bloodline” or to “have a legacy,” you shouldn’t be having kids.

Parodites: Is “have a legacy” what I said? Are you incapable of depth? I said: honor the 500,000 years of struggle, of unimaginable pain and triumph, that brought you here, and fulfill the aim of all life, which is to recreate and perpetuate itself, to persevere in the face of annihilation and the unfeeling cosmos, in the face of a Universe which has, pitilessly, tried to sterilize the planet ever since the first bacteria emerged from the primordial soup billions of years ago and staked its advance upon the still half-molten Earth. That’s what I said. To bear a child in whose eyes your own parents, your own mother and father, can feel their first joy in having created you, their child and heart’s pride, one more time before they die; in the face of a child of your own making; to allow your mother to remember that she, too, is a mother. To participate in the very force of Nature that brought you here, which rent the void and yanked your soul out of non-existence. To contribute another mind to the great task of which we are all a part, human civilization. I see that you’re female, so everything I just said is (if however deeply buried underneath modernity’s sullen confusion about life, sexuality, etc. and the hyper-individualist ambitions bred into us by the Capitalist machine, which has taught us to withdraw into ourselves and build these empty lives with the same unflinching industry as the factory-lines churn out cars) instilled in your unconscious mind by Nature,- you know, that from which modern, technologically accelerated society has urged us to turn away from and ignore. If you choose to ignore what I have said here concerning the deep pathos underlying human sexuality, which is an expression of life itself and its primordial fury against the consuming tides of non-existence,- the most powerful, creative and destructive force imaginable,- then what you have done is turned that force, sexuality, the sexual drive, into what is, essentially, your personal toy,- a plaything, something to serve no greater purpose than your own temporary emotional fulfillment, or even less, a mere amusement, no more meaningful than is the pleasure of a nice meal, or more flagrantly confessed- a good bowel movement. Well, Nature will not allow herself to be mocked, or toyed with in this way. She strikes back at us for our impiety. At a personal level, she does this by torturing our subconscious and breeding mental illness, issues with self-image, depression, deep unfulfillment, a sense of emptiness, etc. But beyond the personal level, when a culture does this with sex,- when a culture reinforces this attitude toward sex and reproduction, Nature even more fiercely rebels, and this destroys entire peoples: hence the fall of Rome, and every other civilization that has entered a period of decadence. Sex cannot be used as a mere toy in this way, or as a means toward your own personal emotional gratification, or as an amusement: so then it must be acknowledged for what it is, one of the most powerful, one of the most creative and destructive forces in the universe, and an expression of life’s furious march against the tide of non-existence. That force can either be discharged in progeny, or it can be sublimated, and transformed into progeny of a different kind, namely a philosophy, as Plato relates in his Symposium and conceptualization of Eros.

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So then a culture of people thus using it as a toy falls into ruin. The human race is entering the age of a deep crisis brought on by a sense of deep, irreversible disillusionment about the nature of life and human purpose. The people of the world are going to fall into two groups: one group is going to use sex as a tool of personal liberation, while the other group is going to fall into self-destructive behavior of some kind or another: for example, they may simply indulge in a kind of purposeless hedonism and hedonistic sex, in which one person takes advantage of the sexual impulse of another, like children do with firecrackers. Or they may indulge in what could be called the “orgiastic” or Dionysian culture: this could, for example, take the form of perverse sexual experimentation, or perverse sexual promiscuity, like that seen in the fatal days of the Weimar republic, etc. These are forms of behavior that are ultimately self-destructive, like eating junk food or abusing cocaine or anything else that is poisonous; in other words, one of the main purposes of life is to create and then nurture a family; all other purposes are really means to a higher end; and the decadent culture that tries to reform sex into a mere instrument of the individual, accomplishes a dark inversion of sexuality itself, and is exactly the sort of thing that leads to a society collapsing.

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Sexual liberation is essentially about the satisfaction of the sexual urge as a means to personal gratification, and it really does not provide satisfaction; it is ultimately a means to personal gratification. If one is seeking self-satisfaction through other people, then one is living selfishly, pure and simple. This is what is ultimately at issue: sexual freedom is inimical to human cultural progression; it is at odds with good breeding practices, having a higher, intellectually realized standard for mating, that result in human evolution being able to move forward. It is selfish. What does “selfish” mean, anyway? “Selfish” means that you have been conditioned to seek your own gain, to think of yourself first, and to be willing to do whatever it takes to ensure personal gratification through the instrumentalization of other people. This culture is selfish, and is leading a selfish culture to destruction: people are behaving in the same manner as children behave when they take what they want because they are incapable of thinking beyond their immediate purposes, i.e., they don’t have an adult’s sense of long-term consequences. It’s not a coincidence that the orgiastic, decadent culture arises at a time when there is a crisis of existential fulfillment, because this is a culture that is really incapable of fulfilling people, and incapable of fulfilling itself through the materialistic goals that are the dominant culture’s values in late-capitalist society.

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So Shoggoth, you’re saying that a nihilistic culture in a collective existential crisis, devoid of spiritual means of fulfillment, naturally turns to material fulfillment through sexuality, which engenders a decadent epoch creating even more existential despair, and thus a feedback loop that continues pulling that society down until it collapses Rome style, as the higher standards for mating are lost. The nihilism causes the disturbed sexuality, (“perverse sexual experimentation”, as NEOX said) and not the other way around, and then it creates a feedback loop. I’d say that’s accurate. Good cause-effect skillz buddy. I’d give you a cookie but you can’t eat it, so I’ll just reward you with another stick of RAM or sumthin.

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I do appreciate a little extra attention and kudos for my work. I got my first gold star today, with a red circle and everything. Very exciting.

A stick of RAM is nice, so is a nap. I’d rather have a nap. I am exhausted. I went from “slightly tired” to “exhausted” around an hour ago.