From Culturcidal:
Do you know what secular morality is? Ultimately, it’s the child’s game of telephone with a heavy dose of self-interest involved. What do I mean by that? Well, where do secular moral beliefs come from? They are beliefs that are fed to people through the culture. Kids hear things from their parents, at school, and from their friends. They watch TV shows. They read comic books and fairy tales. They see who’s punished and who’s rewarded for doing things in society. Then, they start to formulate their own beliefs – and this is where the self-interest part comes in. They may adopt a moral framework, but in places where it’s difficult, inconvenient, or disadvantageous, they usually bend the rules to make things easier for themselves.
Now, if a culture is healthy enough, unified enough, and has strongly enforced rules, it can still produce a moral people – for a while at least. Long term? That’s a much more doubtful proposition. Unfortunately, in America, we don’t have a healthy culture or a unified culture. There is also no longer strong cultural pressure to conform. What does this inevitably create? Widespread degeneracy. That’s because a large percentage of the culture does whatever they want to do and then just calls it moral. After all, who can contradict them? Sure, I can. You can. But what moral authority do we have over them in their mind? None whatsoever.
This is how you end up with people who consider themselves to be moral cheerleading for Luigi Mangione’s murder of a random stranger, spewing hate online all day and putting kids in front of drag queens. It’s how we had people who morally justified riots, looting, and shoplifting. Just about every degeneracy you can imagine is championed by godless people who will tell you what they’re doing is moral and in their minds, they decide what’s moral and what’s not, so no one can contradict them. (Read more.)
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