Social Matter

Progressive flagellation before the altar of universal equality serves only to reinforce the hegemony of white social norms, for no other race uses public declarations of shame and guilt as a means of trumpeting social status. If progressives really wanted to tear down the system, they would eschew such implicitly white rituals and adopt foreign cultural norms.

In fairness, they do, to a certain extent. Too much of it though, and they are shamed and derided for participating in cultural “appropriation”. Eating out at an ethnic restaurant is good, making money off of twerking is bad. Examining the balancing act that the modern progressive must play for maximum payout of social approval would be a highly worthwhile analysis, but one that I shall put off for the time being.

The end result of this game is, ironically enough, to obstruct “progress” by capping its infinite progression with what can almost be described as an asymptote of the self. By failing to divest themselves completely of their implicitly white culture, progressives find themselves unable to fully extricate themselves from a system that perpetuates “white privilege” and other demons of the progressive religion. It is this failure to fully withdraw consent from the established system that enables its continued existence. In other words, the progressive will always stand as the final obstacle to progress.

This tension can only be resolved in one way: the annihilation of the self. The self is the final battleground. It must be destroyed.

A logical segue here would be to discuss the tendency of progressives to condone and encourage self-destructive behaviors, like unrestricted sexual behavior or unmitigated access to recreational drugs, but there is something more esoteric I will point out. Of all the major world religions, progressives seem to have the most respect — or at least, the smallest amount of disdain — for Buddhism.

My hypothesis is that this has to do with one of the key ideas of Buddhism: the extinguishing of the ego. The western philosophical tradition does little to differentiate between the ego and the self, as Buddhism does. Coming from a western perspective, the ego is the self, and so the quest to extinguish the ego is thus the crusade to extinguish the self.

Perhaps the progressive loves Buddhism not for its tenets nor its metaphysics, but from a perception that Buddhism is the best vehicle with which to reach the end stage of progressivism. It is a means to achieve the ultimate goal: self-annihilation.

Contrast this with Christianity, which offers one’s soul an eternity in heaven with God if one admits one’s imperfections and strives to live a life rich in faith and free from sin. This puts forth a direct refutation to the idea of self-annihilation. It is an exhortation to accept that not all in life is perfect, but that perfection can be achieved in a manner beyond that which the natural world offers us, and we can achieve a kind of immortality.

Such a thought is anathema to progressive doctrine. It is an unrelenting challenge to the attempt to destroy the self and create an earthly egalitarian utopia. Buddhism can at least function as a sort of useful idiot ideology to perpetuate certain progressive ideas, but Christianity? Christianity must be destroyed.

Progressives do not respect diversity in and of itself. They do not respect things that are exotic or foreign out of respect for different traditions, cultures, or heritages. They only prize those things that can be used to advance their ideology. All else is to be crushed under the boot of progress.