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The Bigger Question is Why Do Modern People Desire Their Own Self-Destruction?

7/10/2022

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Why are people unable to acknowledge evil among their leaders? 

Dr. Charlton probed this pertinent question earlier this week over at his Notions blog and arrived at a rather somber conclusion: 

But people remain self-blinded to even explicitly stated evil, such as the Agenda 2030 or Great Reset... We are at a point when those with the greatest power and of evil intent, can publish detailed evil plans... and the masses will refuse to take them seriously.

What are the mass motivations behind such willfully self-destructive mass attitudes?

In the end, I am forced to admit that the only plausible explanation is that people desire their own destruction; that evil finds a gullible audience among the masses exactly because the masses have taken the side of evil -  and in an ultimate sense, want for themselves what their evil leaders want to do to them.

In a post from 2020, I speculated that a Hanlon's Razor ethos has displaced modern people's capacity to perceive and acknowledge the existence of supernatural evil. Granted, the propensity to "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" does not offer a definitive or comprehensive answer to Dr. Charlton's question, but I sense that it does help to at least partially explain why people remain self-blinded to evil:

Modern people often employ Hanlon's Razor when criticizing or lambasting their elected political officials. Malice is rarely addressed, at least through officially-sanctioned channels, and nearly all seemingly malevolent actions and decisions are peremptorily written off as stupidity or incompetence. 

But there is more to it than that. Much more. Meandering speculations about Hanlon's Razor aside, I sense modern people do not recognize Ahrimanic evil as evil for the simple reason that most sincerely view bureaucracy as a force for good. Modern people know bureaucracies - organizations, committees, political bodies, corporate boards, etc. - are crammed with flawed, fleshy yin-yangs who are often tempted to commit 'bad deeds', but they do not believe that this makes the forms of bureaucracy evil in of themselves (for example, think of those who steadfastly defend abstractions like democracy).

The only notion of heaven most modern Westerners are willing to consider is a temporal one. Contemporary bureaucratic structures, policies, and frameworks are the only means through which this temporal heaven can be established. What does this temporal heaven, this-worldly utopia comprise? A greener planet. Universal basic income. Increased international cooperation leading to eventual one-world governance. And so forth. Any threat to this vision of material heaven must be dealt with swiftly and severely, and it must be dealt with swiftly and severely exclusively through bureaucratic means. 

Modern people do not recognize Ahrimanic evil as evil because they wholeheartedly believe that Ahriman is a force for good. The rejection of God and Divine Creation leaves no other option. Heaven on earth will not build itself. Such a goal requires an intricate network of plans, committees, management, data, laws, rules, regulations and everything else Ahriman comprises. And any perception of malice in this great project will be attributed to stupidity and incompetence. After all, how could those who strive to build heaven on earth possibly possess 'real' malice or be 'really' evil? 

Well, if one rejects all belief in supernatural evil, then those who strive to help build heaven on earth can't really be malicious at all. At worst, they are stupid. Or incompetent. Or both.

But evil? To most modern people, the very notion is incomprehensible. 

The observations above address the willful self-blinding and the decision to side with evil (which is not really evil, but good) to some degree but do little to explain the desire for self-destruction so prevalent among modern people.

With this in mind, Dr. Charlton’s post about the inability or unwillingness to acknowledge evil raises an even more pressing and pertinent question:

Why do modern people desire their own self-destruction?

As with willful blindness to or willing siding with obvious evil, I believe the answers lie in the spiritual/metaphysical.

Simply put, like the leaders/System they embrace and follow, modern people are ultimately motivated by evil, not good.
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That may seem like a blanket statement, and in many ways, it is. Nevertheless, I believe the core of this blanket statement is true; and I will attempt to explore some aspects of it in my own clumsy way in future posts. 
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ben
7/10/2022 13:10:02

Why do people eat dark chocolate? Because they don't like it.

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ben
7/10/2022 13:45:54

People practise anti-Truth, anti-Beauty, anti-Goodness because of the genetic damage that corresponds to 'suicidality' where they get gratification from opposing their own interests as well as Value itself; people violate their own aversions in order to be entertained by doing so, making use of this new suicidal instinct. People don't just neglect Truth, Beauty, Goodness; they actually oppose them directly. Neglecting Goodness (vice) would be eating cake, anti-Goodness would be dark chocolate. This corresponds to the difference between luciferic and sorathic evil.

Over time, this results in a state of despair and confusion where they don't really care or know about anything anymore.

This is what's been happening since about 1750/1800. This is the core of leftism/witchhood/suicidality/sorathic evil/mouse utopia. All the leftist ideas are the mind serving the evil suicidal heart. The heart is primary, the mind secondary. This is why the ideas are incoherent nonsense, because they serve evil rather than Value.

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ben
7/10/2022 14:23:17

The elite emerges from the population, the system is a manifestation of the population. The population creates institutions that it uses to destroy itself. The system is evil because the population is evil and creates an evil system that then bears back on the population, making it more evil.

Sorry about all the comments.

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bruce charlton
7/10/2022 18:56:06

Very important topic, which we all need to consider more deeply than the habit (which I share) of focusing on the demonic Establishment.

Also, the post triggered excellent comments from ben - " Neglecting Goodness (vice) would be eating cake, anti-Goodness would be dark chocolate. This corresponds to the difference between luciferic and sorathic evil."

I had not considered the ways that Sorathic evil might manifest in the masses - i.e. as a deliberate perversity of desire, met by a perversity relating to status (mass approbation of the most inverted individuals for the opposite of what ought to, and used to, attract prestige).

Some common examples are when individuals are accorded high status for publicly exhibiting fear, resentment or cowardice.

The extent to which people act against their own biological self interest is extreme, yet positively regarded; as if ceasing to reproduce and fawning-over and subsidizing hostile (or parasitic) mass alien invasion were evidence of admirable altruism - rather than the most extreme decadence and self-loathing ever yet seen.

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Bookslinger
7/11/2022 06:30:09

@BC, I think you said it well a few years ago:

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/03/cock-up-or-conspiracy-fake-dichotomy.html

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Tom
7/12/2022 13:20:39

Are most people born without the ability to question what is happening around them? Why is it that when we are exposed to the same toxic ideas when we are young, only few people manage to reject those ideas while the rest of them happily and wilfully 'suicide' themselves?

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Bookslinger
7/14/2022 04:44:53

@Tom, because most people are just naturally outer-directed as opposed to inner-directed.

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Zork
7/19/2022 03:44:22

I believe the problem ultimately is sin.

Sinful man, begets sinful and corrupt systems, beliefs, opinions, false gods and idols, etc.

There is nothing else we are capable of or can possibly build when it is built directly into our natures since the fall. Toss in some direct satanic interference at the spiritual level and nothing can withstand the rot.

Even those organizations which were concieved and created with only the best of intentions and passion at heart, eventually fade and become corrupt.

And generally those people associated with such systems and organizations follow suit over time.

Including the vast majority of churches today. Carnality and worldly beliefs and doctines of the day have supplanted the original message.
And it happens soo graduallly, only the most vigilant amd self aware of people notice at all.

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