The Clancy case has provided yet another opportunity for us to witness the moral derangement of Western civilization. People who think this case is just another distraction; it matters. It matters because it fits right within the framework of dialectical political warfare & the objective of aufheben dur kultur: destroy the culture by eroding the populace’s ability to recognize moral wrongs from moral truths. Deracinate individuals from the grounding of reality. Inversion is the name of the game. Evil is actually victimhood, actual victims are somehow instead the oppressors, the burdens, the cause of the harm, the obstacles to be overcome by ruthless actions that can always be justified by virtue of the inverted “victim’s” struggles.
A few moral truths.
The woman who have been mystified into rallying behind Clancy have been enchanted by an ideology that portrays struggle as the process through which to achieve liberation & transformation. Feminism demands the destruction of repressive social structures that oppress women & prevent them from achieving their “true” potential. Men, The Patriarchy™️, motherhood, the needs of children, the biological reality of being a female mammal, the natural differences between men & women, the traditions & norms, or hegemony of Western society. All oppressive & harmful obstacles that necessitate ruthless & perpetual criticism & destruction.
Feminism, Critical Theories, etc. are conflict theories. They require dialectical poles coming into conflict, & the energy generated from this conflict drives transformation. The struggle is the process for emancipation. Young women today are embracing victimhood because it gives them a pathway into this emancipatory, transformational process. The young moms posting TikToks about “Same, Lindsay” or “postpartum anxiety be like” are participating in this process by identifying into <The Struggle>. It’s like the autism, ADHD, Tourette’s, “neurodivergent,” etc. Tiktoks/Instagram social media trends that pop up like periodic ephemeral mass mania; everyone gets to self-identify into The Struggle & who are you to question their legitimacy? Their Lived Experience gives them their legitimacy. And this identification gives them a pathway into & a process to follow. It gives them social capital. It gives them an identity, a group, & a cause. And, very importantly, an enemy. Someone & something to be blamed for their discontent & dissatisfaction.
What happens today is that an event occurs, the event is seized on by people who embrace a particular (critical) framework, social media amplifies these interpretations, people’s perceptions are influenced, & very importantly — BEFORE they are influenced by these interpretations, their minds have already been conditioned & shaped by this same particular framework for interpreting & understanding the world at large—so the interpretation of the current event can slot right into this framework. The moral inversion process has already begun long ago. Specific narratives “make sense” - women are burdened, men are privileged, motherhood may not be worth the costs, no matter what, women will always be at a disadvantage. It doesn’t matter how much men or fathers do, women are always struggling *more*. These ideas are already dominant in the cultural context.
It doesn’t take a grand conspiracy by some group of actors to use current events to derange & manipulate people. The ideological framework is already in place. We do it to ourselves, & social media has become a major tool in the process. We really are in crisis. The West is in a crisis of morality.
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