The unconsidered touchstone.
Now and then I meander into commentariat territory. That is to say, I look at what people are saying – rather than what is simply happening in the news cycle.
This is an important habit to keep because it helps me to “check notes” and find context and contrast to what I think.
There is one area in particular where I have been roundly disappointed in the thirteen years since I decided to engage my ideas publicly: the lot of children in this world.
Adults swirling around in a sky war of limitless fiat.
Some people would cleverly argue that their near sole focus on the “concerns of adults” are in fact for posterity and the protection of children.
At best, there’s a kind of martial attitude that children going to “face a tough world” and so they need combat training and tough love.
Really all this is is an admission of not having thought much on the subject.
Why take cues from anyone, anyone at all, on any topic if they haven’t thought through the most important part of our society – the wellbeing and innocence of children?
So what is it then that you’re listening to? It amounts to canned, derivative, undigested talking points that have no real basis in philosophy and have remained relatively unchanged in the nearly-three generations since White man first woke up to demographics. There is no guiding first principle besides “do what’s best for our people” as if there’s an abundantly obvious cure. No consideration of the training or background or question-making of the doctors who set about to administer the cure.
How will our parenting shape the future?
This question is central to the moral improvement of the world.
Look at how violence-addicted the commentariat has become. Rather than just consider parenting for a single second, people would rather go on and on about a transvaluation of values where the current order is upended. Why? For the sake of “vitality”.
Liberal democracy has been tried and tired.
But Nietzschean will to power hasn’t been tried and isn’t tired?
This is vainglorious. This is a mental backflip in order to avoid discussing children and parenting.
Rather than simply ask children how they’d like to learn, we end up with this kind of generalissimo non-philosophy:
The Zoomer generation yearns for order but is unwilling to listen to those who tell them to self-order. This is a generation being primed for violence.
You cannot have a discussion about self-ordered people collaborating as a team without someone who’s power-tripping insinuating themselves into an order-giving role. Noisy, illiterate environment.
The highly literate generations that established America as the beacon on the hill had enough self-restraint to let the group dynamics breathe. All they had to do was keep their borders closed, hang the central bankers, and keep the children out of the schools. You can get to that kind of resolve pretty easily if you realize not every human has a “soul” that can be saved.
Now when you step into the group dynamics, it’s all sycophantic favor trading and ego stroking. There is no room for subtlety because that’s not how social media works! Thoughts are bite-sized and emphatic. There is no cooperation, there is only punctuation. Who’s the mature immature reply-guy who can materialize himself into the room? Hoot like a monke.
Edge and swagger are being sold as cure-alls. If you’re sufficiently self-assured, you can defeat the outgroups! In a certain culture, it’s called chutzpah. Self-certainty is a superpower! Fuck the Argument lel.
Watch as the lot of children fades as a consideration the face of all this energy!
Christian Nationalism was tried in the late 1800’s and it failed because Christians handed their children over to the State.
Nietzschean stuff? Let’s just ignore what happens to the children. They can, uh, march in lines like the Chinese kids do. They will, uh, learn discipline and shit. Do you think I’m sexy??
Because people are addicted to violence, they cannot pause to self-reflect. They cannot accurately prognosticate what their aggression is contributing to. Perhaps they perceive they will bring about a new Godhead to transvaluate the “old” values – but ask them how this will be funded and what their views are on Bitcoin and yup, it just falls apart again.
The new Godhead will fall. The Argument will prevail.
Idea: we deprogram the Zoomer generation from the violence it has been programmed with.
It’s not too late!