We are born animals, intelligent, cunning, but animals nonetheless. Through strain and effort we become human. Humanity is something to be attained, but even this realization is something that can only be transmitted culturally. At present this knowledge doesn’t appear to be spreading at all. The luminaries of our society, those we are told to look up to and emulate, are just so much empty headspace. Moral calculations are occurring at only the most rudimentary level, because that’s what happens when you are raised amid a moral and cultural wasteland, one that never instills value for human life, self-reflection, and a capacity for guilt, duty, honor, noblesse oblige, self-sacrifice. We might as well have been raised on the dark side of the moon.
The cultural rot spreads silently, like a virus. Most people have no idea that they’re infected, that their mental and moral foundations, having never solidified, turn to dust under assault by this cultural plague.
It’s less even than a plague, it’s the human animal at it’s base level, at zero point. We are a prey animal that got smart, not some master apex predator of our vainglorious fantasies. And we behave no differently than every other prey species: squabble, fight, kill each other, allow others to be killed, plot and lie and work only for our interests.
How many around us have bloomed into adulthood with just such atrophied mental and emotional equipment? It’s almost become a source of tribal pride to behave in a less than human manner.
In short, I believe that we live amid cultural and spiritual rot, and certain elevated emotions and sentiments, normally transmitted through culture, are not being felt or instilled at crucial points during the spiritual and moral development of those around us. Too many have reached adulthood having not become fully, psychically human. This goes far in explaining the animal-like reaction to COVID lockdowns, masks, and vaccine mandates.This goes far in explaining the mass death in Texas.
This state cannot continue for long. And now, with the most perfect digital drug in history being distributed to every house on the face of the earth, the coming generations will have no opportunity to develop any of the higher, more human emotions at all. Strength of character develops during intense self-reflection, but how can it even happen when a screen can instantly change, short-circuiting this crucial process before it can even begin.
The cancer hasn’t merely just emerged, it’s in the bones.
