OF LAWFARE AND SOAP OPERAS

    One of the most common misconceptions about the degenerate Postmodern American culture is that we are a sexually libertine people. The reverse is actually the case: the United States is probably one of the most sexually repressive cultures (and consequently the most sex-obsessed) on the planet. That, of course, only applies to heterosexual behavior---anything that the Rainbow Crowd wants to engage in is fair game. 

    Americans are also obsessed with real-life courtroom dramas---we have more lawyers per capita than any other country and are by far the most litigious of all the human race. Americans hold their black-robed courtroom kingpins presiding over these performances in the most reverential awe: despite the fact that both the intelligence and character of most American judges is beneath those of the people over whom they pass judgment. Being able to read and behaving with arrogant, condescending contempt towards the common herd are about all of the qualifications one needs today to be a judge at any level. Thus, whenever a legal case and that nebulous formula of sexual impropriety can be combined, it is a bonanza for the Infotainment Industry, which has supplanted both our once great legal system and our once highly professional news media. 

   The Media Circuses and Courtroom Extravaganzas surrounding the President-in-Exile have been paying high dividends for the Media and Legal Establishments, although accomplishing very little else. Since Americans today have little interest in anything deemed newsworthy unless it involves sex, these performances have to be interlarded with as many lurid allegations as possible. One trial somewhere accuses Trump of having had an affair and paying his mistress to keep quiet about it---something we're sure that no American businessman has ever done before---and that, naturally, to the Liberal Hive-Mind is worse than anything they accuse Trump of doing (e.g. trying to overthrow the government). The Controlled Opposition has responded in kind, by accusing the District Attorney and Prosecutor in another case of having an affair---that, naturally, to the Conservative Hive-Mind is worse than anything that they accuse the Left of doing (e.g. weaponizing the Legal System for political gain). 

    This latter incident, which happened in Georgia, caused a diversion during the legal proceedings and the local District Attorney and County Prosecutor were obliged to go through the same humiliation ritual that the former President endured in New York: much to the satisfaction of the media slime hyping such national embarrassments for higher ratings. What was troubling was the ruling in the Georgia---not because it was a ridiculously stupid sham to begin with---but because His Honor the judge played along with cultural hysteria and made a ruling at all instead of throwing out the case and sanctioning the people who brought it up as he should have. 

    Judge Scott McAfee arrogantly fumed “As the case moves forward, reasonable members of the public could easily be left to wonder whether the financial exchanges have continued, resulting in some form of benefit to the District Attorney, or even whether the romantic relationship has resumed. Put differently, an outsider could reasonably think that the District Attorney is not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences. As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist.”

   His ruling didn't disqualify the District Attorney, but only on the condition that the prosecutor (Wade) not remain on the case. The question here is: where do these pompous judges get the authority to dictate to anybody what they do in their private lives?

       It's bad enough in our society that we have Corporate and Academic HR Departments issuing encyclicals about what it is and isn't 'appropriate' behavior between persons of the opposite sex; not to mention the informal militias of various trolls snooping into every corner of people's private lives without judges intervening too and issuing decrees. There are plenty of cases in the United States where people lose their jobs, are exposed to public shame, and even charged criminally and jailed for things like this, no matter how consensual the relationship is. 

     This is truly a sick society. Once upon a time, if an individual whose attitudes towards human sexuality were anything like what's now considered the new normal, he'd be sent to a psychiatrist for treatment. I strongly suspect that a major reason that the Homo Agenda is received with such tolerance in America directly comes from our collective horror and loathing of heterosexuality. This horror, I also believe, ultimately is rooted in envy. Today's culture is essentially a narcissistic and predatory one; and under such circumstances a mutually satisfactory heterosexual relationship is bound to excite nothing other than jealousy and contempt. The suppressed libido involved in this degree of sexual jealously drives us collectively to a fanatical degree of open malice driving us to destroy any 'appearance of impropriety' and expose any 'bad errors in judgement' as the judicial swine Scott McAfee expressed it.

    The Judge's ruling sums up the state of our social attitudes towards sexuality and relationships: it's inappropriate and an error in judgement. It's a matter that, when it occurs, is something to be dragged out as a spectacle for the public to gawk at and make salacious gossip about; and ideally even brought before judicial hearings. It isn't any wonder that younger Americans are turning to homosexual perversions or dropping out of pursuing normal relationships altogether. They've been educated in a culture where acting upon such natural inclinations is considered dirty, shameful, and subject to exposure, humiliation, and ridicule. 

    A Dead White Male whom I had occasion to re-read this week said: "Civilizations sometimes perish because they are forcibly broken up by the armed attack of enemies without or revolutionaries within; but never from this cause alone. Such attacks never succeed unless the thing that is attacked is weakened by doubt as to whether the end which it sets before itself, the form of life which it sets to realize, is worth achieving. On the other hand, this doubt is quite capable of destroying a civilization without any help whatever. If the people who share a civilization are no longer on a whole convinced that the form of life which it tries to realize is worth realizing, nothing can save it."

    American Culture was built on a culturally ideal foundation expressed in mainstream Christianity by St. Paul as Faith, Hope, and Love. All three of these things imply complimentary social relationships---obviously the opposite of the narcissistic and exploitative social values which prevail universally throughout American Culture today; and for that reason our Culture is effectively doomed so long as we collectively hold to such values. This is why the Political Right's abandonment of social issues has been such a crucial failure, and their attempts at superficial top-down solutions are only going to lead to further tyranny unless they address the responsibility of the public in acting upon such beliefs. As it is, the Right wants to have it both ways: they want values legislated without having to practice them in their own lives. Such a position is only the antipode of the Left, which seeks to legislate tolerance and force everyone else to accept it. Hence, our schizophrenic attitudes towards human sexuality where some activities are above criticism while others are brutally suppressed and micromanaged---and, of course, that little detail about a Right to Privacy is not even a factor open to consideration or debate. 

    The absurdity of all of this is reflected to a shameful degree in our current electoral-year theatrics. We have two candidates accusing each other of being dirty old men while their respective partisans are digging up scandal-sheet gutter-level allegations on each other; and the main topics of discussion are about immigrants raping White Women and banning Tik-Tok because some men might be viewing women whom legislative fiat has declared 'minors.' In better times, these kinds of things would be beneath the notice of anyone with any degree of self-respect, but today they are regarded as serious national issues while the real facing us go on blissfully ignored.