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Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

Which leads me to a question: How many times will you get dragged around in an emotional frenzy on behalf of some moral cause that you’ve been told is morally imperative?  Can you count these experiences on two hands?  Do you even remember the evolution of your own world view?

If any cause has been deemed as so morally imperative, then how on Earth did you end up getting tricked into thinking the best people for the job are a bunch of self-aggrandizing political opportunists on Capitol Hill?  That’s like saying your car’s engine is stalled and taking it to a florist.

The point of this post is not to focus on the “wrong person for the job.”  That brief conclusion intentionally obfuscates the fact that any and every moral calamity is completely manufactured from the top-down.

For example, abortion is a <edgyMediaJargon101>hot button</edgyMediaJargon101> topic that ignites passions and animalism.  Any topic that results in such reactions means those reactions are coached and conditioned on purpose to hide the true purpose of the topic in question.  The Left Cult calls abortion a reproductive right, granted from hands of the infinitely Elysian elite as themselves as a successful way to improve a female’s quality of life and earning potential.  The Right Cult calls abortion a state-sponsored genocide through the same logic that the Left Cult has defined other genocides throughout history.  One Cult believes their activity is holy and righteous while the other believes it to be an ultimate sin.  These are moral responses designed to invoke emotional catastrophe for all parties.  As long as Two Minutes Hate/Love reigns supreme, then Two Minutes Reason will be forever hidden.

The hard truth is that the unborn are the perfect targets.  They cannot wage a guerrilla resistance.  They cannot create convincing artistic displays of their struggles.  The unborn cannot vote or stage protests.  The fetus cannot bribe politicians.  The zygote is unable to put themselves on media outlets to elicit pity through appeals to emotion.   This means that the best target for keeping populations manageable (a very serious concern for any macroeconomist) is the unborn.  The Guttmacher Institute puts the worldwide abortion count at approximately 40 million per year.

No warlord, dictator, or Malthusian has in history has ever consistently achieved such efficient numbers for population mitigation.  The moral arguments about the unborn being a human or not has absolutely no importance.  What we know with absolute certainty is that through the termination of an unborn human, a future human no longer exists.  A future human means a burden to a system with limited resources.  The old adage of “One less mouth to feed” becomes the rule of the day.

How do you get people to kill their unborn?  If such people are already participants of a system that is designed to have a bare minimal transference of influence, then the fear of having such scarcity put at risk provides all the incentive one needs to agree with the “One less mouth to feed” principle.  In a strange twist of irony, those who support that line of reasoning indirectly agree that a future human is nothing more than a cost/benefit investment whose risk can be mitigated via economic arguments alone.  This indirect conclusion alone should be enough to make the Left Cult sympathetic to the worldview of the Right Cult, but sadly, the crusade-like emotionalism associated with this topic prevents such possibilities.

And therein lies the problem that I am discussing.  Morality does not elevate mankind to be closer to purity.  Morality bogs mankind down with petulance and chest-thumping.  Instead of morality being used as a channel for mankind to realize he is more than his animal impulses, morality becomes the channel that grants mankind permission to become excessively belligerent.  Morality is a crucial source of the Cult State because morality prevents reason.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!

CultState.com is a blog that provides insight to the musings of a very complicated person living amongst broken humans.

Now, I have to ask, which phrase triggered an emotional response from you?  The phrase “very complicated” or the phrase “broken human“?

“Very Complicated”
Do you sympathize with being “very complicated” or did you find the title pretentious?

“Broken Human”

• “That’s a good phrase: Broken human. I implicitly understand what you mean.”
• “Who are you to judge who is broken or not!?”

I’m complicated, too
How complicated can a human being possibly be if we all have the same emotions?  The answer lies in each individual’s ability to look beyond the now.  Those who have realized that they are more than a machine that outputs emotional responses do not bode well in our current Western society.  In the midst of each person having the potential to access the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria, intellectual laziness remains rife enough to be considered an epidemic.  Instead of embracing the natural complexity of the Universe we live in, the average person is told to wildly stab outward with an emotionally-fueled Occam’s Razor to ward off the encroaching chaos.  They are panic-stricken with each moment that passes and, thus, have no alternative actions to take.

But not everyone is so fearful.

Some of us enjoy the challenge of this complexity.  Some of us believe we can tame the chaos of the Universe in useful ways.   You and I may not be so complicated to each other, but in the eyes of those who only know fear, we appear as mind-boggling as a Gordian knot.

“You’re right! I am not afraid of what may come!”

I’ma tough guy, so grow up
In a culture that is addicted to entertainment-at-any-cost, we have many examples of people intentionally making themselves enigmatic to increase their appeal.  This activity is a clear manipulation of a social exchange and no one enjoys being blatantly manipulated by strangers.  Before you finalize your conclusion, however, allow me to be blunt:  I do not play political games.  I’ve simply found that a mob is as intelligent as its least intelligent member and the only way to counteract that is to filter reasonable humans from the emotionally-drunk animals.  That filter is complex, and thus, is the source of my complexity.

“Get to the point”

Stupid, stupid people…
Be careful with your conclusion, for the stupidest person in the room is the sharpest one who cannot communicate effectively.  Do not hold your fellow man to an unachievable ideal and expect everyone to fall in line.  If you truly wish for humans to achieve an ideal outcome, then you must acknowledge that most humans operate within the now.  They must be fed easily-digestible instructions every five seconds to get them to march in unison.  While micromanagement of this scale can be tedious and has existed in the past, the larger, more important question goes unasked: Should human behavior be pigeonholed into a single, collective motion?  What are the gains and the benefits?  What are the unintended consequences?  It is easy to mistaken stupidity for disconnection.

“Maybe… where are you going with this?”

I defend the meek!
Ah, the ever-present altruistic hero.   You will never be in short supply.   Whenever Demographic X needs to be Action Y’ed for Cause Z, you’ll be there at the front lines letting the world know just how brave you are.  I used to be like you until I stopped defining my life by my unexplored emotional impulses.  What makes your archetype so difficult to communicate with is that you are the most susceptible to reason, yet, emotional variables will always have a unnaturally hyper influence in your decision-making process.  Fortunately, the natural solution for this mind type is that, historically, they are the first to die in any conflict.   One way or another, nature will balance itself and correct its errors and one day, you just might learn just enough patience to understand that.

The Objective
I claim no flag, no ideology, no clan, and no group exclusivity.   I do not measure my intellectual capacity by the limitations of faith and belief.   I do not limit my intellectual capacity by emotional zealotry or irrational altruistic impulses.  The West prides itself in its adherence to the European Age of Reason, yet, finds itself awash in a never-ending dissonance caused by an intentional lack of reasonableness. Our technology allows for connectivity and communication never before seen, but our impulse to create walls and filters.

Or is it?

I’ve concluded that the Baby Boomer horde, the mouthpieces of modern morality whose votes and interest always takes precedence, has reached the age where collective dementia is beginning to set in.  Is their political machine reflecting this irritability?  Is the original “Me” generation running out of topics to polarize?  This blog will specifically focus on the critical players of modern history to help us remember how we got to where we are today and to remind us that there is still something we can do about it.