Humiliation

 

Everyone is humiliated. Everybody feels shame and horror. The normal confidence, masculinity, and testicular fortitude of everyone is gone.

So we don’t fight back against the forces of evil. Indeed, we join with them to help defeat the forces of good. Our fighting spirit has been taken away.

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Practically no-one today truly believes the leftist dogma that reality is unknowable, or the rightist dogma that god exists. No-one really believes the leftist or rightist nonsense that self-sacrifice is a moral good. No-one believes that the welfare state is a noble political ideal. No-one believes that the different races and sexes are fundamentally the same in their natures and nurtures. And no-one believes that leftist abstract paintings and rightist church music constitute fine art.

And yet that’s what almost all of today’s intellectuals teach us. These types of absurdities and depravities are what they work to indoctrinate us with.

It doesn’t work. At least, not all the way.

But it does work some. Their false and evil propaganda does manage to intimidate most people into passivity and silence. Or even into active support and pretend public agreement. Few people today dare to stand up for what’s right or state the obvious on these issues.

And so everyone is humiliated. Almost everybody feels private shame and secret horror at their refusal to speak up and fight back.

But the reason for this public submission to intellectual and cultural evil is easy to understand. If you do choose to deny the leftist or rightist dogmas, and the awful ideals of today, pretty much everyone will hate you. Your friends and acquaintances will abuse and persecute you personally, while society will crush you socially and economically.

So almost all fairly rational, decently good, and semi-liberal people fall silent in the face of powerful leftist and rightist wickedness. The forces of today’s collectivist progressives and religious conservatives ruthlessly take away the honor and pride of the individualist liberals. They effectively strip away their spirit, self-respect, and will to resist.

And even tho the good guy liberals generally hate their illiberal persecutors – and privately vow to fight them ferociously – still, the fact that the good guys are almost always forced into public silence, acquiescence, and submission is profoundly humiliating to them. Their spirit is broken. Hence they hold out and fight back much less than normal. And even much less than they quietly believe of themselves.

So if you’re a properly rational, liberal, and good person, and wish to escape this dismal fate, it’s important that you openly express your views and publicly state the truth. Even if no-one openly agrees with you, or even refrains from publicly damning you.

However much surface pain you suffer, this still avoids the psychological devastation and personal misery resulting from surrender and submission to the forces of evil. Loyalty to reality and self avoids humiliation, self-hatred, and the destruction of your soul.