Topic: Kim Kardashian & Western Civilization - page 2. (Read 1314 times)

It's sad that smart minds that could have gone and become something useful end up aspiring to be like the braindead stars on TV... who needs to cure cancer or solve world hunger when you can be adored by millions of people and get money just for acting rich...

I don't think we're on the verge of some kind of complete collapse, but that we're just going to have more and more idiots in society as time goes on...  the smart will end up carrying the weak to make sure they can get by.  I'm mostly a socialist and believe that everybody should be well taken care of, but damn, it would be nice if people would at least put some effort into helping society.

The West has no essence, is merely contingent - just a time-slice through an always-changing, self-subverting, and continually-inverted aggregation of attitudes, beliefs and practices.

So culturally, the West is purposefully, strategically destroying itself - always, as a continuous process.

And biologically The West is destroying itself: by choice the Western population have long since ceased to replace themselves; by strategy it is replacing its own population - and from existential terror (and deliberate wicked intent) this whole subject is taboo, denied, lied-about.

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The West is not even trying to save itself; indeed The West has self-destruction built-in, woven-in, pervasive.

How can you save something which so much wants to kill itself?

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The secular modern is afraid to probe too deeply, because he is sure there is nothing underneath - all is surface. He is afraid to look ahead, because he has decided that will be nothing there. To him, all human lives are failures because they end in decline, suffering, and death - biography is tragedy (either unfulfilled promise or the disappointment of all desire).

His strongest principles are without foundations - and therefore will almost certainly be discarded when they become inexpedient, or even if they are not discarded then this will be an arbitrary gesture. His most profound yearnings can only be fulfilled in imagination - which is to say they will not be fulfilled, and are delusions.

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Our resources are finite, our effort and enthusiasm requires realistic grounds for optimism.

Therefore, let's stop monitoring and trying to turn-back the civilisational tsunami of secular nihilism - but ourselves drowning in pessimism.

And instead adopt the positive, optimistic, realistic goal of saving a few people.