tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1210416526395807509..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Left and sex. (And reading biographies - four at a time...)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-8994482382002297362021-07-10T07:59:52.359+01:002021-07-10T07:59:52.359+01:00@Joseph - For sure; and there are many other examp...@Joseph - For sure; and there are many other examples. It is an interesting - and important - aspect of the human mind that most people want to embed their own desired behaviours into a general scheme (ideology - or, in the past, religion) within-which it is high status. Given how distal such schemes are - so causally remote from the individual - this is a remarkable aspiration; as is the long-termism which it can sustain. <br /><br />My interpretation is that this is because such projects are demonic in nature - humans (especially when it comes to hedonism) are motivated in mainly short-termist ways. The long-termism comes from the non-human side of the 'bargain'. <br /><br />Such motivated strategy is analogous to the long-termism of seduction. Women often find unbelievable the degree and timescale with which a man will plan a seduction, or the expense and effort to which he will go for this objective ('stalking' or 'grooming' behaviours are much more statistically normal than generally recognized). <br /><br />Much as seduction is an evil manipulation of a person with anticipation of personal pleasure and mastery; so Leftism is an evil group attempt to manipulate society with similar goals - but disguised as altruism based upon empathy. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-79392606692821546792021-07-10T06:16:34.048+01:002021-07-10T06:16:34.048+01:00@DLD - yes, I have read 'My Godfather' - a...@DLD - yes, I have read 'My Godfather' - a pleasing little volume, well produced. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-6152357313433436002021-07-10T05:27:17.623+01:002021-07-10T05:27:17.623+01:00Steve Sailer suggests that Foucault's post-mod...Steve Sailer suggests that Foucault's post-modern project was an elaborate scheme to normalize pederasty. Sailer has opined on that theme repeatedly (e.g. https://www.unz.com/isteve/new-accusations-against-po-mo-philosopher-michel-foucault/).Joseph A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48883502901420841022021-07-09T23:23:44.688+01:002021-07-09T23:23:44.688+01:00Good to learn of a Cecil Harwood biography - thank...Good to learn of a Cecil Harwood biography - thanks for mentioning it, and do, please update us!<br /><br />I cannot recall if you have mentioned reading C. S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos and Recollections by the late Laurence Harwood - I have not yet caught up with it, but think I should make the effort to do so.<br /><br />Taking your reference to "a world of sexual lockdown and sexual distancing without any planned end" and Jon's that "virtualities like pornography etc. will keep increasing" together, makes me think of the lunar situation as imagined by Lewis in That Hideous Strength, and leaves me wondering if the ever extending pornographicization of recent (internet) - and now, lockdown - years is not a big part of the dehumanizing, reality-occluding intention.<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-32432672181751353432021-07-09T15:57:54.944+01:002021-07-09T15:57:54.944+01:00Makes sense, sex has been regarded as a very power...Makes sense, sex has been regarded as a very powerful motivator. For example Aquinas wrote: "Now man's sense is plunged into earthly things chiefly by lust, which is about the greatest of pleasures; and these absorb the mind more than any others. Therefore the folly which is a sin, arises chiefly from lust."<br /><br />You are also correct that it will become less important, I think society will become more and more sexless (real sex of course, as virtualities like pornography etc. will keep increasing), it's already happening with record high virginity rates, many men giving up completely, etc.Jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52977530676712741242021-07-09T15:25:48.684+01:002021-07-09T15:25:48.684+01:00@Seb - Yes, I am not being original here! Quite th...@Seb - Yes, I am not being original here! Quite the opposite: it took Me a long time to acknowledge what others (perhaps especially in the Roman Catholic Church) very early saw as obvious! <br /><br />However, we probably also need to remember that the days of the sexual revolution are waning fast; as the world becomes a single bureaucracy. <br /><br />Since the 1960s the sex warriors are being used as a battering ram, behind which come the billionnaires, lawyers and managers who want the masses to voluntarily to embrace a life without any positive pleasures (terminated only by death in despair); which is, of course, exactly what we have seen since the birdemic scam. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19784116087612091992021-07-09T15:20:06.999+01:002021-07-09T15:20:06.999+01:00@GB - "evil has all manner of multifarious sn...@GB - "evil has all manner of multifarious snares designed to entice all types". <br /><br />Naturally - 'religion' is By Far the most powerful human motivator. But we live in a world where religion is absent, weak or absorbed by Leftism. <br /><br />When religion is deleted; then I believe that 'sex' (in a broad sense) becomes by default the strongest *positive* motivator for many of the most active and dominant people. (In this sense, Freud was correct; as is evident from the personal life of Jung, who supposedly disagreed with Freud!) <br /><br />The personal sexual agenda may be private and secret (fantasy) at first - it may seem rather small and mild in terms of its desired transgressions; but even the smallest and most objectively-trivial unrepented sin may be enough to make someone reject salvation. The nature of desired sexual sin may only become publicly evident when someone gets the opportunity or encouragement - which is why these are most evident among the ruling elite and the underclass - the scum and the dregs of society (ie. the natural constituency of Leftism). <br /><br />By contrast with sex; abstractions such as the economy, pacifism, environmentalism are mostly *very* weak motivators; and only pursued when there are more personal and selfish advantages in terms of money, status, security etc. <br /><br />Issues like feminism and antiracism are somewhat like the sexual revolution agenda - being mostly roundabout rationalizations and excuses for socially pursuing individual self-interest - and again these are often stalking horses for a personal sexual agenda; as evident from their leadership class's behaviour. <br /><br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-22317922778890671762021-07-09T14:10:25.151+01:002021-07-09T14:10:25.151+01:00This has been the thesis of American Catholic scho...This has been the thesis of American Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones in his books "Degenerate Moderns" and "Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation as a Form of Political Control."<br /><br />Along with "Barren Metal," these books clarified the origins of the modern project like no others I had read. Enjoy your blog! Thank you for posting so much quality content.SebastianX1/9https://www.blogger.com/profile/07736605593689030892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-90418021384357093122021-07-09T13:46:38.410+01:002021-07-09T13:46:38.410+01:00Interesting post, I appreciate the application of ...Interesting post, I appreciate the application of a deep spiritual insight to the actual development of a real-world historical phenomenon (western leftism since the Ind. Revolution).<br /><br />Ultimately, I think the deep insight (or reminder!) here is that evil has all manner of multifarious snares designed to entice all types, and will dangle it in front of people depending upon their personalities. <br /><br />In this case, those who easily succumb to the temptations of a disordered and unbridled sexuality were enticed with an abundance of exactly that. On the other hand, these same people were instructed to dangle the façade of "economic prosperity for all", "elimination of poverty" and other materialistic, peaceful and tender ideals in front of people with bourgeois weaknesses. And so on.<br /><br />Gary Bleasdalenoreply@blogger.com