In this world of ours, it is edgy and avant garde to be self-destructive. In a world dispirited by the unfulfillment of ideals, it becomes trendy to mock the ideals of self-preservation by embracing whole-heartedly the vision of the enemy. So we have "liberals" apologizing for bin Laden, even sometimes enacting the death-knell of their values by embracing the destructive vision of the Holocaust, a trauma that prompted the development of their supposedly universal values in the first place. It was the dispirited German that needed our understanding, they claim, not the Jews falling victim to the most depraved treatment in world history. But this embrace of the anti-hero is not grand enough for them. They must sully their own values even more.
If the development of universal human dignity was not a target of sufficient attraction, then they must find something truly ubiquitous in its depravity. They must target not only human values but the human itself. Ignoring the fact that countless species have suffered the fate of extinction before the advent of human civilization, they claim that humans are a cancer atop the planet. Instead of being proud of the ability of human intelligence to create a civilization that elevates us above the jungle, these new anti-humanists claim that it is our most profound gift of which we have the most to be ashamed. Ignoring the utter depravity of other creatures when they apply the same pessimistic lens to them, they give other creatures license to take over everything we have successfully taken as a species.
If other creatures are so much more innocent than us, then why don't we start copying other creatures? Why don't we kill every male with whom we copulate, as the mantises do? Why don't we kill every member of another tribe, as the lions do? Why don't we devour every tiny creature we encounter, as the bats do to insects? You see, anti-humanists work directly against the survival of human individuals, but they won't work for the extinction of individuals of other species.
Further, they may impugn the mere utterance of godly language, but they assume the level of the gods in their views on the management of a species. They just KNOW how to manage the eugenocide of a population, but they impugn the spirit of idealism that prompts it in the first place. They impugn the strategic calculus of global hegemony, but they fancy themselves the architects of a New Species Order. They impugn the survival of those they manage in the furtherance of a survival they cannot even predict. They say there is no high purpose to save us from hedonistic destruction, but they claim the highest purpose in the propagation of eugenocide. They presume there is a good reason to kill yourself, but they don't have the courage of their convictions to tell you to follow it through.
If this does not apply to you, then don't worry about my polemics. If you worry about my polemics, then assume that it applies to you.
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