Why Abortions should be performed with coathangers in backalleys(if at all)
Aesthetic vs. Analytical thought
Mr. Raven recently posted this interesting piece on the subject of sort of ‘what to do when the world is falling apart’, he talks about how the Establishment latched onto the myth of Progress to buttress the status quo against all assaults, and how people have responded to that and maybe how we should be responding to it.
He followed up with this note which is good and stirred up a lot of thoughts:
And I am not writing this to disagree because in many ways that is obviously true although we might quibble about the specifics. But it occurred to me that there is another axis on which to consider these differences. That is simply the aesthetic/analytical axis.
Some people make their decisions on analytical criteria, ‘What is the truth about this? What is the real nature of the matter in question?’ and we pride ourselves on our commitment to truth and our separation from ‘the masses’. And it seems to be an immutable fact of human nature that the majority of people make their decisions on aesthetic criteria, ‘how does it look? how does it feel?’ and this can run the gamut from the utterly superficial who are simply cast adrift on the opinions of those around them to those who ‘know themselves’ and come to a more or less integrated and complete whole. It should be pointed out that such people are often startlingly insightful and shrewd. That is only startling because the analytical thinkers have managed to claim the moral and social high ground, because what is uncommon is often able to claim superiority though, in fact, it depends on the common in more situations than the common depends on it.
The analytical thinker is often ‘high IQ’, and we should stop briefly to consider why the Analytical generally are so much easier to fool, especially in the case at hand of the Plandemic. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances, the ability to rapidly integrate what is new into the way that you think and act. The Moving Truth at the heart of modern society has grossly exaggerated the importance of this ability from its historic usefullness. So, the Analytical have taken to heart the great lesson of our society-’Compliance brings reward’ and have focused on complying in such a way as to maximize their reward, thus creating a strong bias to comply. The Aesthetic have learned a different lesson, that even if they comply they are usually cheated out of their reward, thus creating a strong bias to not comply. But in an increasingly evil and deranged society noncompliance is much more likely to be the correct response, but most of the Analytical are not as smart as they think that they are and have not caught up to that yet.
It seems clear that the Lord does not intend to transform aesthetic thinkers into analytical thinkers and that this change is not a part of human perfection.1 But we have foolishly erected a hierarchy where analytical thought is above aesthetic thought and stigmatized aesthetic thought.2 The elevation of the analytic has led to a horrible neglect of the aesthetic, I’m not talking about the ugliness of architecture or of the modern world in general here but a much more serious problem. When the Lord designed the world, He very kindly and wisely made evil things aesthetically bad. Being treacherous and hateful made you sick to your stomach. Whores stunk and made it burn to pee. Abortion was carried out by a crazy lady who looked like a witch in a filthy backalley. War was filthy and bloody and sweaty marching and crawling and yelling and using your hand to keep the mud out of your gaping wound. We changed all of that. Now traitors chug a Pepto, whores douche and take STD medicine, babies are killed in clean nice looking doctors offices by good professional people and Harvard soyboys drone civilians from their office with their Peace Prizes sitting on the desk.3 I understand the argument about making evil things safer and more hygienic and comfortable but fundamentally these are small dangers and discomforts erected to keep us away from bigger dangers, like a barbed wire fence around a shark tank. Making evil pleasant and safe and comfortable was probably a mistake. Having evil things look and feel evil was beneficial to most people.
Bit of a weird post so I will keep it short. Celebrating reaching the 50 subscriber milestone.(free subscribers just for clarification. There is almost nothing here paywalled so I’m not really trying hard to get anybody’s money.) Anyway, this is stuff that I am still working through and would very much appreciate any thoughts or comments. Love and peace, jc
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1
Of course among the ruling class it doesn’t so much matter how you think, in fact the less that you think the better, and so while analytical thought is vastly over-represented in the top 10% in the top 1% the proportions are probably much closer to natural thus making the ruling class seem overly aesthetic and because of the stigma on aesthetic thought- dumb.
I know the Obama reference is a little dated but when I think of droning civilians he is always the one who comes to mind.
Wildly oversimplified view of the world.
Just realised that this went out with the title truncated to Why Abortions should be Performed, that was not intentional. I looked for how to change it, but can't find it right now. Whoops.