Amerika

Modern people love to talk about “objective” data, as if any group of people will agree on anything more complex than 2+2=4.

Yet they refuse to look at anything “objectively.”

To look objectively, after all, requires losing who we are. Not just ego-death, but a complete displacement from our perception of reality that is defined relative to a culture, social class, era, and region.

We have to become eternal, not anchored to any time and place. We have to reject embodiment, or our own self-interest in what we see and argue for, and instead look outside of our lives and deaths to see the arc of history and the evolution of the universe from primitive to complex.

This is why people do not look at things “objectively”: it is a painful reminder of how small we are as individuals.

The opposite of looking at things “objectively” is individualism, or the pathology of filtering reality for what interests you personally and rejecting any obligation to nature, logic, culture, civilization, or faith behind that.

Individualists glom up with other individualists and form Crowds, which mutually re-inforce this reality denial and focus on the self and, by extension, the social group. They rule by peer pressure.

These actively work against anyone looking at anything “objectively.”

But if we were to get outside of our individualistic perspective and its socially-enforced rules, we could look at our civilization — humans are not herd animals, but civilization creatures — “objectively” with new eyes:

• Transsexuals are wandering around and actively supported by the political system. This is not a “troon bad” argument, but noticing that when your society gets to this stage, some kind of massive decay has occurred.
• Debt — government, personal, corporate — has risen to staggering levels and yet no one has the political will to do anything about it, mainly because the system is in political gridlock.
• Foreigners wander among us, rape our women and boys, vandalize our cities, and then vote for more free stuff on our dime, and somehow our rules-based political systems can do nothing about this.
• Pollution levels are rising worldwide and overpopulation has created a worldwide decentralized urban heat island effect, and while people talk about this a lot, they focus on non-solutions which are somewhat politically acceptable instead of actual solutions.
• Religion has inverted itself from worship of the divine into, like our political system, worship of the individual; Darwinism has been demonized by these egalitarians, which has produced a cultlike belief in “equality” to which all else can be sacrificed.

Looking at this “objectively,” you see a dying civilization. The sooner we face this and stop the dysfunctional behaviors that got us here, then reverse the damage, the sooner we can stop living in constant terror brought on by the instability of a dying society.

Tags: civilization, civilization collapse, civilization decline