This week, a video of a family with four “trans kids” went viral on social media. Many conservatives were understandably stunned, pointing out that the chances of four random children with severe body dysmorphia in the same family are incredibly slim. Commenters on the video suggested that the mother must be mentally ill and acting out Munchausen syndrome on her behalf.
But this shows that the right to understand human nature is seriously compromised. These mothers of her four children were not exhibiting mental illness, but rather a desire to gain social status by adopting behaviors endorsed by the dominant moral system of the time. . She is using her children as a signal to convert to a new state religion, and this war of faith cannot be won without understanding the spiritual nature of this conflict.
People always show virtue. It is an important aspect of human nature that will never go away.
One of the stupidest ideas ever embraced by opponents of wokeness was the demonization of “virtue transmission.” The latest incarnation of a progressive social revolution begins on college campuses, where “social justice warriors” dye their hair, taunt conservative speakers, and wear other clothing to demonstrate their dedication to left-wing causes. engaged in histrionic performances.
Although many professors and administrators took part in this revolutionary movement, some liberal intellectuals rightly recognized that this wave of more radical progressive beliefs was dangerous to the status quo that had kept them in power. did. An intellectual dark web was formed as these progressive dropouts formed an uneasy alliance with the conservatives they had spent most of their lives deriding.
religious obligation
The basic strategy of this alliance is to treat the Awakenings as a new faith and introduce the same tools that have proven so adept in dismantling Christianity as America’s official religion in previous generations. there were. Endless YouTube videos, comedy skits, and internet posts have been created to mock the new progressive vanguard in its dedication to this more radical left-wing morality.
Intellectuals held debates, wrote books, and recorded endless podcasts dissecting and debunking the ideological underpinnings of wokeness. Awakened people were ridiculed as intolerant, moralistic, closed-minded clowns. But progressive revolutionaries, undeterred by ridicule and intellectual dismantling, simply redoubled their efforts, won more converts, and took control of more institutions. IDW and its conservative allies were defeated, and wokeness became the dominant religion of America’s ruling elite.
Humans are religious and social beings. It is so woven into our nature that all efforts to expel it have failed spectacularly. Liberal modernization has trained us to see ourselves as free-thinking individuals who make rational and objective decisions, when in reality we all attach great importance to status. I am conscious of this. People want to fit in with a group, and at the same time, they want to stand out as a high-status person within that group. Therefore, we tend to observe what other high-status people are doing and imitate their behavior.
Our decisions are often guided more by religious assumptions promoted by our peers than by our own independent rationality. Exercising, dressing well, attending church, getting a master’s degree, participating in Black Lives Matter protests, or “converting” children are all values that dominate society at the time. This is an attempt to indicate status depending on the perspective. People always show virtue. It is an important aspect of human nature that will never go away. The question is never, “Will we exhibit virtue?” But “whose virtue will be exalted?”
big temptation
The IDW’s disillusioned leftists were elites displaced by an awakened revolution that threatened their dominant position. Their alliance with conservatives was forged in an attempt to return to the moral framework of the 2000s that made liberalism the neutral default of American culture. Conservative Christians, who would have been wise to stand with those who have spent decades dismantling their faith, have previously aligned themselves with high-ranking elites against them. The temptation to deploy the same tactics that have been used successfully proved too tempting. .
Simply put, conservatives have internalized their status as beautiful losers. Christians have abdicated their leadership responsibilities and bought into the myth of secular liberalism as America’s moral default.
The only thing that can defeat awakening is a more vibrant, beautiful, and true faith.
Conservatives are natural defenders of the status quo. Once secular liberalism triumphed, the Republican Party simply adopted the movement’s language and norms and began defending them instead. Although Christians retained some of the private aspects of their faith, in the cultural and political realm they fully embraced the framework of secular liberalism as the default order of society.
Defending core moral disagreements in the clinical term of mental illness only shows how thoroughly conservatives have internalized secular liberal rhetoric. It’s not just that Christian conservatives have rendered themselves irrelevant. It is that they have made themselves fanatical slaves to the ideology that conquered them.
The right is easily defeated because it understands politics only as an opportunity to restore neutrality, while the left understands politics as an opportunity to define neutrality. There are no universal and objective standards to reconcile conflicting truth claims in society. There will always be a metaphysical framework that defines value, meaning, and the common good. Although this framework can be dressed up with scientific terminology and intellectual pretensions, it remains fundamentally religious in nature.
Secular liberalism has never been truly secular, and wokeness is not a religious attack on secular neutrality. Wakeness is simply a more overtly spiritual continuation of the progressive revolution that broke with the Protestant Christian consensus that had dominated the United States for much of its history.
Secular liberalism cannot defeat wokeness, and conservatives cannot win by defending a neutral status quo that never existed. Christians lost to secular liberalism not because of the power of rational argument or scientific truth. We lost because our faith was weak. Awakening may be a gutsy religion, but if it is worshiped by the ruling elite and rewarded by the system, ordinary people will imitate it. The only thing that can defeat awakening is a more vibrant, beautiful, and true faith.
