Re:Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workwe...
by lo_zamoyski on Sunday August 04, 2024 @04:14PM
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Interesting, given all the hot air about the inevitable 4-day workweek.
The bottom line is that this is what happens when you have a contraceptive and abortive society that hates life and has chosen to wallow in base self-indulgence, indolence, mediocrity and base and empty pleasures instead of pursuing true excellence, which above all is moral excellence. You get a low birthrate and thus demographic decline. In fact, we hate excellence, and excellence is best exemplified by greatness of virtue, so that not only do we not want to pursue it ourselves, but we hate those who do pursue it. Egalitarianism is effectively the envy of the mediocre. Any sign of greatness in another is painful experience to the arrogant and prideful mediocrity, for the letzter Mensch. The pain is relieved by pulling down the excellent, or denying their excellence. Nihilism is an opiate of the envious. They do not have greatness in their souls, so they deny it in others by denying that greatness exists.
Such a person is a corpse in advanced decay, a worthless and disgusting person, one who belongs in a casket or an urn. If your soul does not burn for the highest good, the Summum Bonum, does not delight in the sparkling majesty of virtuous excellence, then you are zombie whose birth remains a mystery. You are a self-satisfied, smug, prideful person of no humility. A loser.
And mind you: I do not define "greatness" or "excellence" in the narrow, shallow, low, materialistic terms of our decadent culture of "sUcCeSs". Nor do I think everyone can achieve the same things. We are not equals. There is a gradiation, and this difference is beautiful and rich, and it is how goods, often intangible, travel and distribute across society. I mean rather to be the best one can be, to excel in one's niche and place, above all morally.
And in the case of demographic decline, note our hatred of large families. In the past, it was seen as a blessing to be a parent of a large family, a thing to be celebrated, a source of joy. It was a source of happiness for the spouses to be fruitful, to raise children into adults, to have made and extended a rich society of kin and added to the human race. Now, we look at large families with disgust, with perhaps an undercurrent of envy, quizzically. We voluntarily have chosen an inferior mode of life, an emaciated and poor existence over one of such abundance. Voluntarily, in large numbers and out of no sacrifice for some higher calling, we choose a shabby life, if we can call it that, that is a howling, frigid, dark void to match the cold, dead hearts in our breasts. We chose the life of a subhuman.
The bottom line is that this is what happens when you have a contraceptive and abortive society that hates life and has chosen to wallow in base self-indulgence, indolence, mediocrity and base and empty pleasures instead of pursuing true excellence, which above all is moral excellence. You get a low birthrate and thus demographic decline. In fact, we hate excellence, and excellence is best exemplified by greatness of virtue, so that not only do we not want to pursue it ourselves, but we hate those who do pursue it. Egalitarianism is effectively the envy of the mediocre. Any sign of greatness in another is painful experience to the arrogant and prideful mediocrity, for the letzter Mensch. The pain is relieved by pulling down the excellent, or denying their excellence. Nihilism is an opiate of the envious. They do not have greatness in their souls, so they deny it in others by denying that greatness exists.
Such a person is a corpse in advanced decay, a worthless and disgusting person, one who belongs in a casket or an urn. If your soul does not burn for the highest good, the Summum Bonum, does not delight in the sparkling majesty of virtuous excellence, then you are zombie whose birth remains a mystery. You are a self-satisfied, smug, prideful person of no humility. A loser.
And mind you: I do not define "greatness" or "excellence" in the narrow, shallow, low, materialistic terms of our decadent culture of "sUcCeSs". Nor do I think everyone can achieve the same things. We are not equals. There is a gradiation, and this difference is beautiful and rich, and it is how goods, often intangible, travel and distribute across society. I mean rather to be the best one can be, to excel in one's niche and place, above all morally.
And in the case of demographic decline, note our hatred of large families. In the past, it was seen as a blessing to be a parent of a large family, a thing to be celebrated, a source of joy. It was a source of happiness for the spouses to be fruitful, to raise children into adults, to have made and extended a rich society of kin and added to the human race. Now, we look at large families with disgust, with perhaps an undercurrent of envy, quizzically. We voluntarily have chosen an inferior mode of life, an emaciated and poor existence over one of such abundance. Voluntarily, in large numbers and out of no sacrifice for some higher calling, we choose a shabby life, if we can call it that, that is a howling, frigid, dark void to match the cold, dead hearts in our breasts. We chose the life of a subhuman.
Our society sucks, because we suck.