/lit/ - Literature

>>22471857
>blocks you path

Someone on here made an interesting point in regard to Christian Sexual Morality (CSM) and Pagan Sexual Morality (PSM).

CMS encourages monogamous, heterosexual marriage, child-bearing, and gender-roles. It recognizes only male-female. Sex corresponds with gender, and vice versa -- no exceptions. Homosexuality and all its variations are sinful.

PSM, on the other hand, breaks down CMS. It encourages non-monogamy, free love, and does not believe that marriage is sacred. It is often anti-natalist. It advances the idea that there is no necessary relationship between sex and gender. Homosexuality and all its variations are on equal footing with heterosexuality.

I find this interesting -- as CMS declines, PSM re-emerges and becomes the dominant mode of sexuality.

What are some historical examples of PSM? The Phoenician/Carthaginian religion, which involved child sacrifice and festivals during which male prostitutes would castrate themselves around the temple, before the frenzied crowd. In Babylon, all women, at some point in their early lives, would wait at the temple to find a stranger with whom to have sex. The Greeks and Romans engaged in such behaviors as well, particularly pederasty.

As Christianity spread throughout the Middle East and the West, PSM was destroyed -- often violently. We can thus say that CSM and PSM are in direct opposition to one another.

PSM also has a relationship to ideas like Gnosticism and its modern expression, transhumanism -- overcoming the body and, ultimately, eliminating biological categories, such as sex.

Now why is this interesting? Let us turn to Nietzsche -- Nietzsche is a part of the re-emergence of Paganism in the modern world, and, in this sense, Nietzsche is deeply reactionary. Indeed, Nietzsche's ideas and philosophy serve a starting point for many on the right-wing. He is anti-democracy, anti-Christian, anti-socialism, and emphasizes the need to return to the aristocratic values of ancient Rome.

This is the contradiction within the anti-Christian right-wing: They want CMS without Christianity. And that, unfortunately, looks like an untenable position. It's all or nothing. Without Christianity, PSM will re-emerge and wreak havoc upon life and civilization.

>>18340594
You're a fucking retard. I hate how leftists try this shit it's so transparent. "They're not REAL leftists, they haven't read the theory!"

Yeah, ok buddy. Leftism isn't just "capitalism bad", it encompasses a whole bunch of positions that stem from the enlightenment. Scientific positivism, rationalism, humanism, a suspicion of hierarchy and authority, utilitarian ethics and so on. You try and dissociate yourself from these positions because you know they're impossible to defend and that the issue isn't really "muh capitalism" but capitalism deformed by a warped and soulless society that got duped into repudiating its own heritage by faggot left wing academics that promised a better future built on "reason and science" but never eventuated because the left have a fundamentally incorrect view of human nature. Hence why they keep trying to flood their societies with niggers because they think they're all blank slates who just need a good old liberal education to be model western citizens.

You can't address economic problems without also addressing cultural ones. The problems of the west are not economic in nature, they're cultural. Until the left realize that, and the fact they've been creating the own conditions for the downfall of the civilization they inherited then they'll never provide any opinions of value.