At ground, western society is divided at a metaphysical level. On one side, although most don’t realize it, is a metaphysics rooted in Realism. On the other is a metaphysics rooted in Nominalism.
The Australian government has already passed laws that have their ground in nominalism.
Once the courts concur with government law, there will be no limit to the monsters we will produce.
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Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks "Roxanne Tickle" is actually a woman.
Look at this exchange and you’ll see the Moral Translation force I talk about in this essay and many other operating in real time.
Craig Hill gets a critique from @dhughesy rooted in material reality, tax settings, property investment, the everyday pressures squeezing families trying to buy a home or keep the lights on, and what does he do?
He doesn’t engage the substance. He doesn’t offer numbers, lived experience, or policy outcomes.
Instead he translates it instantly into moral failure: “personal attacks against people you know nothing about,” “try to do better,” “this is not humour,” and a condescending offer of a mental-health chat thrown in for good measure.
Notice the process
Material complaint goes in.
Moral verdict and character lecture come out.
This is the mechanism I described.
The governing class and its propagandists live separated from the consequences they help create, then use moral language to police anyone who notices.
The real strain on ordinary Australians, housing costs, bills, service collapse, disappears behind accusations of bad character or insufficient virtue.
Once you see the pattern, you see it everywhere. The debate is never joined on the ground where people actually live. It is moved to the courtroom of false moral decency, where the critic is put on trial , denounced and the system walks free.
That’s how the squeeze is maintained.
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The Chasseur Stealth version was my favorite incarnation.
@dutchbuildings I love your use of “you know it when you see it”. Seems to me everyone, and we see it here in Australia, trying to define something that is generally not easy to define. Whereas, things like culture are more difficult to really define, but we know it when we see it.
@Orthodoxxy_com I think people need to actually learn comprehension first before they can even make statements on this. The actual sin he was referring to was causing factions and divisions, not teaching in English.