The Empire Needs Degenerates II

The corporate/consumer culture is really built on "degeneracy". I think the trad-cons are correct in their analysis of this point. The "empire", really just the banks and corporations, attack the family, and the traditional roles of men, women, and children to turn them into isolated soul-less minions to extract obedience and wealth. It also removes all motives except the motive to acquire fake money tokens and various paper forms of wealth.

The attacks are pretty feeble, but constant and ubiquitous. It's like a constant beating with a million Q-tips. If people organized, it would be trivial to end the attack, but the whole point is to keep people from organizing.

A life that's based on honor or religious devotion is usually, necessarily, a simple life because it subordinates a person's existence to some creed or code. Acquisition of wealth usually doesn't jibe with those ideals.

Unfortunately, it's possible to build empires on scams based on honor and religious devotion, too. The devotion and service of warriors or priests has been exploited by evil men at least as much as degeneracy, effeminacy and personal softness. Obedience as a virtue can render a good, honorable warrior into a slave of a perverse, corrupt master.

The whole and complete human exercises choice and agency and is the servant of no man, no code, and no law. He's not a citizen. He's not a soldier. There are really very few historical examples of these people. I can only think of a handful off the top of my head. Johnny Appleseed is one interesting case.