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Tumblr bans porn, its primary source of income in an act of suicide. Sony of America shines censors cleavage in a bikini that wouldn't even be PG-13 rated. Female character designs have been getting uglier and abandoning their feminine shape for something more gender-neutral, not even androgynous. So we ask: why?
Pop culture is shaped by capitalism. Capitalism, at its core, is a basic, Pavlovian system. Its a system of incentives. Do good, get rewarded. Do bad, no reward or bad thing. A lot of it is reactionary by nature and thousands of people spend thousands of hours a day analyzing this shit to make the most money. In some cases, ideology trumps this, but get woke, go broke is real because this isn't fucking communism. So, lets remove ideology and replace it with pure corporate greed. Sex sells, so why aren't companies selling it anymore? In short, the Pavlovian response of people beating it whenever they do. So they don't. But sex still sells, and this loses companies money. They view the loss of money as an acceptable trade-off for no bad press. But as time moves on, the money trade-off is shrinking. Eventually you can only take so many losses before you go down.
But why cater to outrage mobs? Well, because for the past....shit, 20 years now, media has been dominated by a left-wing ideology that has grown more extreme and more and more authoritarian. In general, its a typical political cycle in America. You have a dominant power that begins to wane. In order to keep control of that power, its at first passive. Then it grows more and more active. Then it cultivates fear and division. And eventually, it all falls apart. Cycle begins again.
The problem with the left is that it won. It won all of its struggles, all of its objectives. I'd say the left completed all its objectives with the legalization of gay marriage in 2015. And in doing so, it amassed a lot of money and power. Problem is, after that, there was nothing left. You could only go smaller, not bigger. So their causes got smaller and smaller. Which risked their money and power getting smaller. But people found a way to perpetuate them forever: a perversion of morality. If you take something that's moral, you can twist it into a coat and do what you want under its moral guise. You twist seemingly small and insignificant problems into large scale ones. Then you use this cloak of morality to control society. Or at least, attempt it. Essentially, this is what they're doing. And this is what the Victorians did too. This time, without the religious flavor.
What was Victorianism?
The Victorian Era was shaped by one of manners and modesty. This wasn't because they were all prim and proper. This was because they thought without manners and modesty, men would turn into savage animals and fuck and rape everything in sight. Loose women were evil and viewed as tempting men into a life of vice. Also nobody gave a fuck about them, really. You also had religion into the mix as well. It was basically a bad time all around and a lot of people kept everyone on leashes, early lacks of knowledge about human biology and sexuality were exploited. Bad old times.
What is Neo-Victorianism?
Basically it is what it sounds like. Victorianism was done to protect women from men (of course, it was under the guise to control women and men both). This time around, that's its stated goal, but it really isn't. Its still all about control of society through a twisting on morality. Except there's no religion in the mix this time, just secular moralism. Make no mistake, this seeks to control women as well as men under its umbrella. You've seen it all before. Women who 'betray' feminism are treated like dirt, get death and rape threats. Same shit as the loose women in Victorian times. (Well, this time around we've got actual laws to stop the shit that happened back then happening now. We've kind of advanced). Like in Victorian times, if you did not go with the flow, you were un-personed, and your special protected status is viciously yanked from you. You see this happen to black, gay, Asians and others who don't toe the line.
And like its predecessor, intentional lack of knowledge of human biology, psychology and sexuality were exploited. This time around, for political, economic and social power. No just religious authority. Bad new times.
Where does the new morality come from, if not religion?
Good question, imaginary asker! Victorianism's cloak of morality emanated from its Protestant origins. Its was basically seamlessly interweaved inside of it to keep everyone socially dominated and nicely controlled.
So where now? Simple: Universities and the erroneous idea of tabula rasa. You can blame post-modernism for some of it, but without tabula rasa, this shit wouldn't ever exist. What tabula rasa postulates is simple: There are no human behaviors that are biological. None. Every single behavior is learned socially. When I mean every, I mean e.v.e.r.y. This includes thumb sucking and reaching for the nipple. They don't classify these as behaviors but as 'instincts' (they're the same). The very foundations of social science relies on this aspect being true. Its the object permanence theory applied to reality, biology and ideas themselves. If you make something disappear from society, its permanent. You eliminate it, because someone can't learn it anymore. This, by itself, is insane. It requires a vast amount of power and authority to do. You wonder why the left resorts to violence? Its the only way this would work. Big is beautiful. Ugly is sexy. Fat is healthy. Take away the ideas of the opposite, and these will magically come true. Because genetics and biology play no roles in their world. Its why they flaunt these diverse casts. They think by mystically fostering this ideology, everyone will accept it. They don't care about stories because they believe by simply pumping ideology CONSTANTLY, it will stick. Truth is, very few are going to buy into it that already haven't, unless you beat them with that stick. Then they'll believe whatever you tell them. Which is functionally, ideologically at the point of now. Don't agree? They'll fucking ruin you, because they're on the right side of history, because by eliminating you, they eliminate all of your ideas. And by completely marginalizing you, it'll be as if you don't exist. You fucking bigot.
The cloak of neo-victorianism is spun in tabula rasa. If you see it, it will affect you negatively. This will alter you morally. And we will protect you from that. Tabula Rasa is the house on which everything is built. Without it, it all falls apart. All of it. I don't need an hour to debunk Anita Sarkeesian or some feminist saying that videogames or movies or whatever turn you sexist. All you say is 'Tabula Rasa doesn't exist, hasn't existed and will never exist no matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid for your degree you spent. Behavior is an intertwining of genetics and nurture. It is almost impossible '. Our behavior is a product of genetics and nurture. We're not sure on the mix, but both play a big word. The key word here is both.
How do you know that the predisposition for sexism is genetic? You don't. How do you know the predisposition to morality itself is genetic? You don't. How much is someone's sexism genetic and how much is learned? Almost impossible to untangle. So you can never concretely say something makes someone amoral or sexist, because it could be simply a person's predisposition and they'd be that way anyway. And with that, millions upon millions of dollars comes tumbling down into the gutter. Dissertations, books, careers and institutions reduced to rubble.
Fundamentally, like the Victorians, what you have is a denial of our basic humanity in order to keep up this illusion of ideology. Ever wonder why progressives flock to science, but never really seem to go into genetics or really into behavior all that much? And even when they do go into biology, its so superficial? Like describing genetic diseases as a spectrum of gender and shit? Yeah. Science is their enemy. Make no fucking mistake about it.
So, what can we do about it?
These moralistic ideologies are not about morality, they never really have been. They're about the current, decaying forces gripping power as hard as they can before the world leaves them behind. Victorianism followed on the heels of the industrial revolution; the world was radically changing and the forces of religion wanted to have a strangle-hold on an increasingly secular world. Ultimately, it failed and the Victorian era was remembered as a backwards time of repression, censorship and human misery.
The information age brought an influx of new ideas, eroding the power bases of medias and monopolies and the control on information, thought and language. Progressive politics, which has basically held sway for a long period of time, is now in danger of losing ground. Ohio is rapidly no longer becoming a swing state. Generation Z is becoming increasingly conservative despite progressive parents. More and more companies focusing on 'wokeness' are going broke. As a result, you have the intensity of rhetoric and ideology increasing, because grips on power are decreasing. This is why you have fake news narratives, corporate 'progressive' censorship and increasingly authoritarian measures all in the name of tolerance. The rise of the right wing is a natural state of being, as every force in nature produces one equal and opposite. Humanity is no different. The only way dying ideologies persist is through violence. And even then, that only prolongs their grip on power only for so long.
What we can do is vote with our wallets and speak our minds. Don't give in to ideology wrapped in fake morality that wants to control you. And ultimately, the wheel will turn once again.
Pop culture is shaped by capitalism. Capitalism, at its core, is a basic, Pavlovian system. Its a system of incentives. Do good, get rewarded. Do bad, no reward or bad thing. A lot of it is reactionary by nature and thousands of people spend thousands of hours a day analyzing this shit to make the most money. In some cases, ideology trumps this, but get woke, go broke is real because this isn't fucking communism. So, lets remove ideology and replace it with pure corporate greed. Sex sells, so why aren't companies selling it anymore? In short, the Pavlovian response of people beating it whenever they do. So they don't. But sex still sells, and this loses companies money. They view the loss of money as an acceptable trade-off for no bad press. But as time moves on, the money trade-off is shrinking. Eventually you can only take so many losses before you go down.
But why cater to outrage mobs? Well, because for the past....shit, 20 years now, media has been dominated by a left-wing ideology that has grown more extreme and more and more authoritarian. In general, its a typical political cycle in America. You have a dominant power that begins to wane. In order to keep control of that power, its at first passive. Then it grows more and more active. Then it cultivates fear and division. And eventually, it all falls apart. Cycle begins again.
The problem with the left is that it won. It won all of its struggles, all of its objectives. I'd say the left completed all its objectives with the legalization of gay marriage in 2015. And in doing so, it amassed a lot of money and power. Problem is, after that, there was nothing left. You could only go smaller, not bigger. So their causes got smaller and smaller. Which risked their money and power getting smaller. But people found a way to perpetuate them forever: a perversion of morality. If you take something that's moral, you can twist it into a coat and do what you want under its moral guise. You twist seemingly small and insignificant problems into large scale ones. Then you use this cloak of morality to control society. Or at least, attempt it. Essentially, this is what they're doing. And this is what the Victorians did too. This time, without the religious flavor.
What was Victorianism?
The Victorian Era was shaped by one of manners and modesty. This wasn't because they were all prim and proper. This was because they thought without manners and modesty, men would turn into savage animals and fuck and rape everything in sight. Loose women were evil and viewed as tempting men into a life of vice. Also nobody gave a fuck about them, really. You also had religion into the mix as well. It was basically a bad time all around and a lot of people kept everyone on leashes, early lacks of knowledge about human biology and sexuality were exploited. Bad old times.
What is Neo-Victorianism?
Basically it is what it sounds like. Victorianism was done to protect women from men (of course, it was under the guise to control women and men both). This time around, that's its stated goal, but it really isn't. Its still all about control of society through a twisting on morality. Except there's no religion in the mix this time, just secular moralism. Make no mistake, this seeks to control women as well as men under its umbrella. You've seen it all before. Women who 'betray' feminism are treated like dirt, get death and rape threats. Same shit as the loose women in Victorian times. (Well, this time around we've got actual laws to stop the shit that happened back then happening now. We've kind of advanced). Like in Victorian times, if you did not go with the flow, you were un-personed, and your special protected status is viciously yanked from you. You see this happen to black, gay, Asians and others who don't toe the line.
And like its predecessor, intentional lack of knowledge of human biology, psychology and sexuality were exploited. This time around, for political, economic and social power. No just religious authority. Bad new times.
Where does the new morality come from, if not religion?
Good question, imaginary asker! Victorianism's cloak of morality emanated from its Protestant origins. Its was basically seamlessly interweaved inside of it to keep everyone socially dominated and nicely controlled.
So where now? Simple: Universities and the erroneous idea of tabula rasa. You can blame post-modernism for some of it, but without tabula rasa, this shit wouldn't ever exist. What tabula rasa postulates is simple: There are no human behaviors that are biological. None. Every single behavior is learned socially. When I mean every, I mean e.v.e.r.y. This includes thumb sucking and reaching for the nipple. They don't classify these as behaviors but as 'instincts' (they're the same). The very foundations of social science relies on this aspect being true. Its the object permanence theory applied to reality, biology and ideas themselves. If you make something disappear from society, its permanent. You eliminate it, because someone can't learn it anymore. This, by itself, is insane. It requires a vast amount of power and authority to do. You wonder why the left resorts to violence? Its the only way this would work. Big is beautiful. Ugly is sexy. Fat is healthy. Take away the ideas of the opposite, and these will magically come true. Because genetics and biology play no roles in their world. Its why they flaunt these diverse casts. They think by mystically fostering this ideology, everyone will accept it. They don't care about stories because they believe by simply pumping ideology CONSTANTLY, it will stick. Truth is, very few are going to buy into it that already haven't, unless you beat them with that stick. Then they'll believe whatever you tell them. Which is functionally, ideologically at the point of now. Don't agree? They'll fucking ruin you, because they're on the right side of history, because by eliminating you, they eliminate all of your ideas. And by completely marginalizing you, it'll be as if you don't exist. You fucking bigot.
The cloak of neo-victorianism is spun in tabula rasa. If you see it, it will affect you negatively. This will alter you morally. And we will protect you from that. Tabula Rasa is the house on which everything is built. Without it, it all falls apart. All of it. I don't need an hour to debunk Anita Sarkeesian or some feminist saying that videogames or movies or whatever turn you sexist. All you say is 'Tabula Rasa doesn't exist, hasn't existed and will never exist no matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid for your degree you spent. Behavior is an intertwining of genetics and nurture. It is almost impossible '. Our behavior is a product of genetics and nurture. We're not sure on the mix, but both play a big word. The key word here is both.
How do you know that the predisposition for sexism is genetic? You don't. How do you know the predisposition to morality itself is genetic? You don't. How much is someone's sexism genetic and how much is learned? Almost impossible to untangle. So you can never concretely say something makes someone amoral or sexist, because it could be simply a person's predisposition and they'd be that way anyway. And with that, millions upon millions of dollars comes tumbling down into the gutter. Dissertations, books, careers and institutions reduced to rubble.
Fundamentally, like the Victorians, what you have is a denial of our basic humanity in order to keep up this illusion of ideology. Ever wonder why progressives flock to science, but never really seem to go into genetics or really into behavior all that much? And even when they do go into biology, its so superficial? Like describing genetic diseases as a spectrum of gender and shit? Yeah. Science is their enemy. Make no fucking mistake about it.
So, what can we do about it?
These moralistic ideologies are not about morality, they never really have been. They're about the current, decaying forces gripping power as hard as they can before the world leaves them behind. Victorianism followed on the heels of the industrial revolution; the world was radically changing and the forces of religion wanted to have a strangle-hold on an increasingly secular world. Ultimately, it failed and the Victorian era was remembered as a backwards time of repression, censorship and human misery.
The information age brought an influx of new ideas, eroding the power bases of medias and monopolies and the control on information, thought and language. Progressive politics, which has basically held sway for a long period of time, is now in danger of losing ground. Ohio is rapidly no longer becoming a swing state. Generation Z is becoming increasingly conservative despite progressive parents. More and more companies focusing on 'wokeness' are going broke. As a result, you have the intensity of rhetoric and ideology increasing, because grips on power are decreasing. This is why you have fake news narratives, corporate 'progressive' censorship and increasingly authoritarian measures all in the name of tolerance. The rise of the right wing is a natural state of being, as every force in nature produces one equal and opposite. Humanity is no different. The only way dying ideologies persist is through violence. And even then, that only prolongs their grip on power only for so long.
What we can do is vote with our wallets and speak our minds. Don't give in to ideology wrapped in fake morality that wants to control you. And ultimately, the wheel will turn once again.
