- 02 Oct 2018 07:30
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Lately, progressives have been consistently losing certain arguments and they have been miraculously undeterred by said rhetorical defeats. I believe the reason for this is because progressives often think they are making materialist arguments when they are actually making metaphysical statements.
This happens because they lack for an appropriate religious dialogue. My goal here is to try and provide some terms and arguments that might support such a dialogue. An example of a consistent losing argument is the “black white supremacist” argument, something that clearly fails from a materialist standpoint.
The source of this argument can't be that “whiteness” is a social construct, if only because that term “social construct” is useless without a related degree. Instead, when someone says “whiteness” what they really mean is “inner whiteness” as a metaphysical state that is synonymous with the idea of evil in other religions. If this is accepted, the apparent discrepancies in contemporary progressivism are logically resolved; inner whiteness (which is distinct from material whiteness of the skin) is evil. This is one reason why you can have "white blacks" and "coloured whites" or white allies, the term is actually referencing a spiritual or metaphysical state of being; it is not a reference to physical coloration.
Once evil is clearly defined, all we need to start forming a cosmology is terms for that which is “good”. Here's a few I came up with:
Progressianism - a religion that worships progress as a real metaphysical principle.
Progressiarch - a worldly authority in social and scientific progress. Somewhat analogous to Buddhist concepts, a Progressiarch must never permanently commit to any idea besides the concept of progress itself; this is a form of self-destruction as destruction of the ego. It is equivalent to a Sainted path or a Bodhisattva in other religions.
Progressiah - a being who becomes so attuned to the fact of progress that they gain abilities, or at least a unique chain of coincidences that appear to lesser beings as magical powers. This is the highest state and is equivalent to a prophet or Messiah in other religions.
In a previous post, I argued that a metaphysical conception of endless progress rejects the possibility of God or an ultimate state, which may be offensive to the egos of most people. I believe that the concept of self destruction as part of a quest to become a Progressiah or Progressiarch is something that people are literally attempting today and that it is one way to resolve that dilemma. One could also argue that it is no more contradictory or confusing than ideas regarding how Jesus Christ can be both man and God or various other religious concepts.
Part II - Neo-Classism in Progressianism.
The alleged double standards surrounding things like claims of sexual assault are easily understood if someone accepts a very simple proposition: progressianism includes a class system and the different classes have different rights. The progressive class has a presumption of innocence. The regressive class has no presumption of innocence in certain areas because they have not given themselves over to the task of destroying their “inner whiteness” and therefore society cannot afford to grant them the same presumptions. It seems to be the case that almost everyone today wants some kind of class system and it might be socially beneficial for people to start admitting to this instead of beating around the bush; there is no other way to explain what contemporary progressives want besides using the term class system and progressives do themselves no favors when they argue for having different classes of people at every opportunity but then refuse to call that what it is, thus being unable to complete their own arguments.
This happens because they lack for an appropriate religious dialogue. My goal here is to try and provide some terms and arguments that might support such a dialogue. An example of a consistent losing argument is the “black white supremacist” argument, something that clearly fails from a materialist standpoint.
The source of this argument can't be that “whiteness” is a social construct, if only because that term “social construct” is useless without a related degree. Instead, when someone says “whiteness” what they really mean is “inner whiteness” as a metaphysical state that is synonymous with the idea of evil in other religions. If this is accepted, the apparent discrepancies in contemporary progressivism are logically resolved; inner whiteness (which is distinct from material whiteness of the skin) is evil. This is one reason why you can have "white blacks" and "coloured whites" or white allies, the term is actually referencing a spiritual or metaphysical state of being; it is not a reference to physical coloration.
Once evil is clearly defined, all we need to start forming a cosmology is terms for that which is “good”. Here's a few I came up with:
Progressianism - a religion that worships progress as a real metaphysical principle.
Progressiarch - a worldly authority in social and scientific progress. Somewhat analogous to Buddhist concepts, a Progressiarch must never permanently commit to any idea besides the concept of progress itself; this is a form of self-destruction as destruction of the ego. It is equivalent to a Sainted path or a Bodhisattva in other religions.
Progressiah - a being who becomes so attuned to the fact of progress that they gain abilities, or at least a unique chain of coincidences that appear to lesser beings as magical powers. This is the highest state and is equivalent to a prophet or Messiah in other religions.
In a previous post, I argued that a metaphysical conception of endless progress rejects the possibility of God or an ultimate state, which may be offensive to the egos of most people. I believe that the concept of self destruction as part of a quest to become a Progressiah or Progressiarch is something that people are literally attempting today and that it is one way to resolve that dilemma. One could also argue that it is no more contradictory or confusing than ideas regarding how Jesus Christ can be both man and God or various other religious concepts.
Part II - Neo-Classism in Progressianism.
The alleged double standards surrounding things like claims of sexual assault are easily understood if someone accepts a very simple proposition: progressianism includes a class system and the different classes have different rights. The progressive class has a presumption of innocence. The regressive class has no presumption of innocence in certain areas because they have not given themselves over to the task of destroying their “inner whiteness” and therefore society cannot afford to grant them the same presumptions. It seems to be the case that almost everyone today wants some kind of class system and it might be socially beneficial for people to start admitting to this instead of beating around the bush; there is no other way to explain what contemporary progressives want besides using the term class system and progressives do themselves no favors when they argue for having different classes of people at every opportunity but then refuse to call that what it is, thus being unable to complete their own arguments.
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