Transitioning From Christian To Aztec

Deano, upon his return to Twitter after a long absence, posed this conundrum to me.

Say, @ktcat , remember when the campaign against FGM (female genital mutilation) in all those "backwards-*ss" countries overseas was all the rage among western progressives just a few years ago? And then, just like that <poof>, it disappeared. Wonder what happened? Any ideas?

— Lowell George Washington (@deanriehm) June 21, 2023

I hadn't thought of that question, so it gave me pause. After I responded, Dean had his own explanation.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines that it would be unseemly of us to criticize the people of those "backwards-*ss" countries when we are doing much the same to the children of our own country.  So, all the above, I guess.

I replied in the requisite 250 or so characters, but I'd like to expand on the idea now.

Mark Steyn, writing back in the day at National Review points the way.

Okay, since you ask, here’s my prediction: American decline will not be like France’s or Austria’s. For one thing, we don’t appreciate how unusual the last transfer of power was. If you’re not quite sure when that took place, the British historian Andrew Roberts likes to pinpoint it to the middle of 1943: One month, the British had more men under arms than the Americans. The next month, the Americans had more men under arms than the British. The baton of global leadership had been passed. And, if it didn’t seem that way at the time, that’s because it was as near a seamless transition as could be devised — although it was hardly “devised” at all.

I'd say that the same sort of thing is happening as the civilized world transitions from a Judeo-Christian foundation to a secular atheist one. In our case, the transition isn't seamless, it's jarring and dramatic, leading to questions like Dean's.

Judeo-Christianity requires the acknowledgment of objective reality, an objective morality above Man and logic. Secular atheism requires none of these. Darwinian evolution, one of the darling concepts of the secular atheists, is the expression of competitive superiority and has no connection with logic or morality. Alligators have been eating and mating for about 80,000,000 years. That's some serious competitive superiority. They don't worry about logic or morality, they simply eat and mate.

If you don't acknowledge anything greater than yourself, then all bets are off when it comes to behavior. If you can get away with it and you want to do it, then do it.

On top of this is layered our modern Marxism. Marxism, at its most basic level, separates people into easily-detected groups and then declares this group oppressors and that group oppressed. First it was owners bad, workers good. Then it was Jews bad, Germans good. Now it's straight, white men bad, everyone else good.

Under a Judeo-Christian model, people are individuals, not members of groups. Mutilating women is wrong because it's an individual doing something horrible to an individual.

Under the secular-atheist, modern-Marxist model, it's still not super cool to mutilate a woman, but since it's being done by an oppressed group, Muslims, it pretty much gets a pass. Better still is to mutilate little boys and girls in the service of gender ideology because it takes straight children, oppressors, and turns them into queer children, the oppressed. Best of all is that most of the children being poisoned and mutilated are white. What could be better than to affirm the gender of white children and put them in the camp of the oppressed?

Yes, this is illogical and cruel, but so what? Logic and compassion are not features of the modern culture as Darren Stallcup has repeatedly documented as he roams San Francisco, one of the central nodes of modern, secular atheism.

The Paris Of The West Has Fallen... #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/nUBau0l36U

— WORLD PEACE MOVEMENT (@darren_stallcup) June 12, 2023

Most of the secular atheists don't see where this is headed, but again, so what? The cultural momentum doesn't care whether you see it carrying you along or not. The secular atheists are more likely to lead us to live like the Aztecs than the geniuses in the Harvard faculty lounges. If you want evolutionary superiority, the Aztec culture did a bang-up job of it for quite a while. Meanwhile, Harvard can barely beat Yale.

Of course, we'll never get the point where we sacrifice animals and people to the weather gods, right?

Uh oh.