Caustic Ramblings

Many are wondering why leftists and progressives are now on board with the most egregious forms of government tyranny, mass-censorship of any political opinions that don't 100% parrot their narrative, stasi-like spying/snitching on one's own neighbor in response to the Chinavirus/WuFlu Panicdemic, ect.

I think the answer is quite simple. The "Church of Progress" has been in a state of memetic collapse for the past several years and its most ardent and faith believers are collectively going mental because of this. They will believe whatever insane nonsense their corporate media and academic priests feed them.

Basically, humans on average are not all that intelligent; most people can't really think for themselves, and thus they need simplistic narratives to explain the universe to them. And when the narrative a person has spent their life believing in is suddenly exposed as being full of plot holes, contradictions, and inconsistencies, the believer will realize this on a subconscious level, yet on the conscious level they will do everything they can to rationalize away all the chinks in the memetic armor of the belief system in question. This battle between the conscious and subconscious minds will elicit a state of cognitive dissonance and cause the conflict person to behave in all sorts of irrational ways.

Psychologically speaking, the Church of Progress is simply a non-theistic form of Christianity; it's Protestant fundamentalism stripped of its theistic and supernatural pretenses. And this has been the de-facto religion of the contemporary liberal culture of the affluent Western world, since at leas the end of the second World War. It's doctrinal pillars are:

(1) Belief in linear history as a progression from an ultra-barbaric and superstitious past,

(2) Belief in scientific and technological progress as the primary method by which it's possible to eliminate all of humanity's ills and blemishes and thus usher in a technological utopia.

(3) The elimination of any and all other modes of thought or belief which might get in the way of the above objective.

(4) A totally materialist and empiricist worldview, despite the fact that the CoP's core doctrines did not emerge by means empirical inquiry or epistemology, but rather the mere conjecture-based opinions of various intellectuals making declarations on what is and isn't reality based on their own subjective opinions.

(5) Universalist pretensions and aspirations. According to this doctrine, there is "one humanity" which includes all members of the homo sapiens sapiens species on this planet; this can be further subdivided into two main groupings: (a) Good human beings, and (b) Problematic human beings. The former are humans who believe in [or at least publically signal their compliance] all the above doctrines, and the latter are non-believers in the above doctrines; landing oneself in the non-believer camp can happen by merely challenging or being skeptical toward just one or two tenets of the above doctrines.

(6) A belief [often unstated or unacknowledged] that there is no higher human aspiration than the experience of hedonic-type pleasure. And thus the deference to utilitarian logic on what exactly constitutes good and bad according to this worldview.

And since the exposure of the reality than more and more technology and technological gizmos indeed does not make the human condition more tolerable, and the mass-proliferation of Social Just Warrior cultists (c. about 2014-2015), the subsequent election of Donald Trump, and the exposure of liberal and left-leaning politicians and being ultra-corrupt and inimical to the founding principles of the USA, it's become painfully apparent to anyone who isn't totally brainwashed that so-called "Progress" is an empty ideology, and one that has become increasingly divorced from objective reality. Really, any system of ideas that excessive conflicts with nature, is one that is not long for this world.

Note: the following is from an archived web page. In other words, I am not the author of this. However I thought it would be nice to mirror this chronology here, as it quite well demonstrates up close how the mess of epic proportions known as Constantinian-Pauline-Abrahamism gradually/incrementally unfolded and metastasized.

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The idea that Christians persecuted Pagans is a fairly new one in the world of scholarship. Ramsay MacMullen dates its inception to 1986 with Noethlichs and says that “Christian readiness for action carried to no matter what extremes has not always received the acknowledgment it deserves in modern accounts of the period” and that “prior to the 1980s, readers will be hard put to find Firmicus’ word ‘persecution’ describing the conduct of the Christian empire toward its non-Christian subjects.” He notes that R.M. Price in 1993 attributes the “’absence of continuous religious strife’ to ‘a general determination in Late Roman society to minimize the divisiveness of religious differences’ (yes, by extermination).” It is almost a certainty that most Christians are unaware of this process of genocide carried out by their religion.[1]

In the end, neither alleged (but wholly mythical) social egalitarianism nor thirst for a superior religious experience drove conversion in the fourth century; fear did. Ramsay MacMullen has noted the penalties and incentives used by the Christian authorities to speed conversion:
Government…at the urging of the bishops weighed in with threats, and more than threats, of fines, confiscation, exile, imprisonment,flogging, torture, beheading, and crucifixion. What more could be imagined? Nothing. The extremes of conceivable pressure were brought to bear. Thus, over the course of many centuries, compliance was eventually secured and the empire made Christian in truth.[2]
What this list demonstrates is not only the long history of persecution of ethnic religion in the Christian Roman Empire, but also the enduring nature of Paganism in the face of these persecutions.

Note: This list is incomplete and will continue to be updated. It is also limited to the persecution of classical Mediterranean Paganism; it does not begin to address the genocide of European Paganism after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

All dates given are C.E. (Common Era). Permission is granted to reproduce this table by the author so long as authorship remains intact.

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