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RE: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: Zizek on birth-streaming Aussie porn star & false authenticity

in #morality6 years ago

" So, we need to control it from the outside."

This is how it begins. Allowing some overlord to decree what is right and wrong is the end of personal agency, the end of morality. The examples you cite of immorality begin with that external overlord, even the streaming of the birth is decreed permissible by Oz.

The Epstein scandal reveals one thing above all else: depravity of the most powerful. Acquiring power transforms the society around you, from ornery opponents to groveling toadies. As the obsequity inflates your ego, and no criticism restores a healthy, lean humility, it is easy and seductive to simply ignore that inner voice, to overcome your shame and allow your depravity to rule.

Government is a moral cancer, deranging and consuming the moral compass of a people, because those public servants are ubiquitously drawn from the pool of power. They are singularly clothed in shamelessness, surrounded by the 'oohs' and 'aahs' of admirers, never chastised for their immorality save by their enemies.

The Church has the same problem, yet today is less competent to impose judgment on people physically, and this improves it immeasurably. The foul fornications of church fathers is legendary, and we see across the world evidence of that malfeasance, that duplicity and pretense the libertines in pointy hats try to keep secret, behind closed doors with the children of the faithful. At least government has seized the power of temporal control from these arbiters of morality, and they are incompetent to actually seize our children by force under false pretenses, probably saving scraps of their souls from their lusts and depravity.

I utterly and completely refute your contention that externally enforced morality is of any benefit to people whatsoever. Imposing on people penury and hard scrabble suits imperial purposes, but the inevitable duplicity of the amoral Jacobins skulking the halls of government belies honor, leaving all of them governed by secret shame, as Epstein reveals. Extortion becomes the currency of control, and evil acts are not just tolerated, they are insinuated by spooks who then rule from their brobdingnagian gloom, devoid of any shred of the illumination of morality.

When we are raised by good people that instruct us in the reality that our acts have moral consequences, and allow our mistakes to afflict us with those consequences, we gain insight into what is good and laudable, contrasted with what is evil and shameful. Thus, it is free people, guided by their internal compass that refuse to be seduced by the minions of darkness, those government agents that claim to be servants, but secretly hate what is good, and crave destruction instead.

To hell with your automata, your proles incapable of autonomy, dependent on malicious and depraved rulers. The only morality that matters comes from within us, not that which is imposed by force from without. Nothing is more depraved than the State, controlled by secret gnomes wielding seduction and evil lusts to blackmail the jaded wealthy from obscurity. People are the only competent humanity, and cannot be bettered by their creations. Government is only people claiming to be uber people.

Leave people be to rule themselves and acknowledge that shame in yourself, as all must. No man isn't made of meat, and none are morally preferable due to position. It is that compass within us that matters, as that imposed from without is fungible and twisted for the purposes of power.

When positions of power are no longer susceptible to extortion due to the depravity of their occupants, you may have an argument. Today we see that those in power are vastly more depraved than their victims, and the contention that morality and justice must be imposed by that ilk is not only fantasy, it is a dangerous lie.

Look to your soul. I will look to mine.