Abortion: The Ritual of The Enlightenment

For any nation-state to actually survive, the leaders must place the nation above an ideology.

This necessity was inverted in most Western nations during the Enlightenment days. Ideology is now above the nation.

Ben Shapiro claiming that “Color doesn’t matter. Ideology does.” is a great example. Or libertarians being fine with immigrants overrunning the country because of the supposed benefits to the free market. Or even select Boomers touting the “America is an idea” nonsense.

Once you start looking for it, you see it everywhere:

• For the leftist, the ideology of egalitarianism is always above the nation.
• For the libertarian, the ideology of economics is always above the nation.
• Even for our conservative, the ideology of “modern Americanism”—or whatever this acquiesce to the abortion monstrosity stems from—is always above the nation.

The only true difference from these groups is the nationalist, which is where one chooses nation first over ideology first. Every group shown above is Enlightenment-based, whereas the nation-firsters are not. This is how I personally divide the “Right” versus the “Left.” This is a helpful starting point as we turn our attention to abortion.

There is perhaps no better signal of a person’s inclusion with the lame ideology group than abortion, because if someone is okay with slaughtering their own young to the tunes of millions, they clearly are an ideologue over a true nationalist. Because an actual nationalist would not want the junior members of his nation to be killed off en masse just so we can continue to foster a decadent oversexualized and feminist culture.

Kind of common-sense stuff. But it gets murky for some people because they approach the abortion question through the lens of ideology instead of a genuine love for their people.

But for us, it is simple. If you love your people, you don’t want them to die at the hands of Moloch. If all you care about it is some obscure, intangible ideology, then you can do some insane mental gymnastics to wrestle abortion into being an acceptable position.

Normally, I choose not to call out specific people genuinely on the Right when I do critiques. This does not apply to limp-wristed “conservatives” that are okay with killing babies because “Well, everybody in the United States wants it!”

These people have been going off lately because of the recent Ohio referendum. I can’t tell you how many articles I have read recently from conservative sources about why the Right ‘needs to drop the abortion position.’

Ann Coulter is one of them. In a horrendous article, she claims that the pro-life movement is the right-wing version of defund the police:

‘Pro-life’ is the ‘Defund the Police’ of the GOP

Tuesday night, Ohio became the SEVENTH state to emphatically reject the tiniest restriction on abortion. It joins California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, and Vermont.

For half a century, right-wingers have screamed, There’s nothing in the constitution about abortion! It’s up to the states!

We won, the states voted— and voted and voted and voted — and we lost. Every time. It turns out (no matter what they tell pollsters or their neighbors) the people LOVE abortion. They want no restrictions. None. Not the tiniest little imposition.

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Fellow pro-lifers: This is the “change hearts and minds” part of the battle, not the “force Republicans to keep losing elections” part.

Although there’s always my excellent Peace of Westphalia-style compromise proposal on abortion: Make it illegal ONLY for Registered Republicans.

Even if we consider elections as secure enough to be valid in this country (which is a sentence that should have made you laugh), this belief is ludicrous. There is so much error in such a short amount of space, it is hard to rectify it all. But we can try.

Firstly, the latter sentence is clearly a joking proposal meant to provoke Republicans. Or at least I hope so. A conservative openly calling for a two-tiered justice system based on your personal political affiliation is so out-of-touch and asinine that I do not even want to address it. You know the risk here. That’s a horrible idea.

Second, there is a disconnect in her belief on how changing beliefs (“hearts and minds”) occur. The only way minds will change in this country on abortion is if we capture the cultural and political institutions and direct change that way. Societal belief change does not occur from discussions with the grey masses, it comes only through power. So trying to acquire these political levers is how we change minds on a large enough scale to make a difference on abortion. More on this later.

Third, even from a secular materialist perspective like hers, Defund the Police (DTP) helped the democrats win elections through fraud and intimidation (through Black Lives Matter). She is directly claiming here that the pro-life position is making us lose elections. And of course, there is the obvious: DTP destroyed hundreds of cities. I haven’t noticed too many grandma pro-lifers that have ransacked anything. They are clearly not relatable. But to relate a wicked, evil institution like DTP to God-fearing Christians entering harm’s way to fight for the soul of this nation is itself an evil act that Coulter should genuinely repent of.

Fourth, what is equally troubling is that most of these articles are from supposed “Christians.” Coulter herself has said “Christianity fuels everything I write.”—But apparently Christ comes second to republicans winning elections. Odd how that works.

So many Christians continue to wallow in the pit of “live and let live” morality, but that is not God’s morality. “State’s rights” is not God’s morality. We fight for His morals, not whatever morals the world of today demands. These people don’t worship Christ, they worship a golden idol they call “Freedom.”

These types of backwards arguments happen when you have secular materialists at the helm: we are not losing because of abortion, but because of secular materialism. Her focus on the physical election results over the moral and spiritual problems of our day is the actual reason why we are losing. It’s hilarious that these people cannot see this. The materialist always inverts the cause and effect.

You can find plenty of other similar articles with a quick search. Usually, it comes down to them claiming that abortion is now a state’s rights issue, so we should not talk about it anymore and just let it happen in silence. A new form of “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell,” if you will. But instead of sodomy it is murdering children.

These types of arguments could only happen with an ideology mentality. To relate violent black looters destroying towns because of lies and media manipulation to millions of babies being slaughtered because our culture is debased is so lost that only an ideologue could devise it.

All Coulter can see here is the election results. No thought on the long-term ramifications of abortion on our nation. She cannot recognize that giving up these essential moral and spiritual positions are what led us to where we are now. It is what created spiritually weak men, which become the human-version of the soyjack memes. All of our issues stem from this form of surrender on God’s true law. These people see nothing about the long-term or the foundational. Only the temporary; the fleeting. The material.

These people are literally becoming the FreedomToons republican. FreedomToons nailed it:

Also, we need to address the beliefs of the masses. This is a hard pill to swallow. It might actually be the hardest dissident pill for many to swallow. But the truth is that what the people want does not matter (read that article if you do not believe me). Most people are indoctrinated with what they believe through the dominant culture. It is not a genuine belief. Freedom on a large scale, like in a democracy, is imaginary.

To thus guide your ideology on the fleeting whims of these masses, whose beliefs are controlled by the elites, is a fool’s errand. The elites will simply keep pushing them in their preferred direction. You will always be playing catchup. Which is why republicans keep shifting their positions over time.

I explored this reality here:

The reality, whether or not we like it, is that the prevailing culture is set by our institutions, the political leaders do what they want, and then the masses adjust to both.

Because what the people want does not matter, trying to set our objectives based on what the current modern people think is backwards. Instead, we should be trying to focus on capturing the culture so we can direct it toward sanity—toward what God wants.

We do not do that by coalescing to the whims of the masses, but by shifting the Overton window and speaking uncomfortable truth openly. The masses must merge to us; not us to them.

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Appealing to the masses will do nothing to help our situation. We do not control the masses at this point in time, so any attempt to appeal to them is playing under house rules.

I do not give a damn if it is not “practical”, or if it is not proper “optics”. We stand for truth or we will drown in our falsehoods. If we truly want to win, we have to stand with the truth. Not play a political coy to get slightly ahead in our current government system.

It is this constant softness of the conservative that is bleeding them. No one wants to support or be around the softies. If more people were hardline on these subjects, we would be far better off.

We need to shift the culture in our direction more than we need to win a purple seat or make some lukewarm independent like us.

We do not need to weaken ourselves or our positions because of the fleeting wind positions of the masses. They will lead us nowhere, because their positions are everchanging and evermanufactured.

Anyone earnestly claiming, “this is what the people want!” does not know how actual politics works. Because even in a democracy, the results are not based on the people, but solely on those who control the cultural, intellectual, and political institutions that direct the people what to think.

A genuine right-winger should abhor abortion. This is true even if they are a materialist. No sane secular nationalist wants abortion, because they don’t want to kill their own people when our replacement levels are already abysmal. No sane secular nationalist wants to proliferate a degenerate sex-fueled culture that is anti-family. Abortion is a cornerstone in that practice.

Christians have even less of an excuse to support it. God is clearly against murder and harming children, so Christians cannot even slightly tolerate it unless they are in grave error.

Which shows that no matter which angle you come to this question from—whether a spiritual or a materialist perspective—the answer is the same for someone truly on the Right. No to abortion.

The only people that detract from this sane position are leftist freaks and soft Right ideologues (listed at the start of this article). Two groups that share much in common, even if they do not recognize it.

This error is not in a vacuum. Behind this error is the Enlightenment mindset, like most of our modern mistakes.

Until we escape this mindset, we will forever be ensnarled by it.

This mindset is what leads us to the worship of economics, to the pathological individualism, and to things like being fine with abortion just so we can win an election. It is all wrapped up together. It is why it is so hard for people to pull themselves out of the “normie” sphere and into the dissident sphere.

Andrew Isker perfectly encapsulates this in a recent article:

Abortion is the Sacrament of Trashworld

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For decades Pro-Life, Inc. and most of conservative evangelicalism has pushed this single issue in isolation from all the rest of modern American life. They have operated as though everything else in American life can remain the same so long as we stop murdering babies. This has always been nonsense.

All of our modern way of life is structured around the murder of tiny children. Consumerist, managerial, liberal society requires all of humanity to be deracinated, stripped of particular, historic ways of life, and every single person reduced to bare individuals. The order that God created for humanity, to have marriage, family, and children, the very necessities for a civilization to function and perpetuate itself is now a consumer lifestyle choice, among a myriad of others. There is no marriage as nearly all of human existence has known it. Now it is merely a legal compact for two adults to live and share property together, to be dissolved whenever there is no longer mutual consent. 

Abortion allows women to be unshackled from their telos, their divinely-ordained, unique purpose—to bear and rear children. Now, they can be bare economic units consuming whatever they produce, and free to pursue whatever way of life they desire, even to become “men.” The basis of our entire society is the freedom to become whatever you want, created realities be damned. You don’t want to be uniquely bestowed with the power to bring new human life into the world? Then we can kill that life whenever it is created in your body.

Abortion is the sacrament of this total freedom and atomized individualism. It is the barbaric ritual-killing, blood must be shed so you can be free to enjoy brunch and swiping right. The entirety of American society, and especially what the American views as its highest good, requires abortion be held sacrosanct. 

The mainstream evangelical Christian, the bulwark that gives the Pro-Life movement its energy and foot soldiers does not view American society this way at all. It believes that the consumerist, liberal paradise is just fine, so long as we don’t chop up babies. They believe we can still have our feminism, our “strong, independent women,” and a country that is reduced to an economic zone, so long as abortion is banned.

The reason why it is so hard for Americans to give up the abortion piece is because it is a foundational ritual dedicated to the wicked state we reside under.

Abortion is the holy grail of the Enlightenment.

The greater Enlightenment tree supports abortion through all of her branches: the leftist’s feminism needs it, the republican’s individualism yearns for it, the libertarian’s desire for civilizational-destroying “freedom” demands it, the centrist’s ‘live and let live’ rationalism allows for it, and so on. It infests everything.

If we ever wish to overcome this wicked condition, we have to reject all the Enlightenment lies. We cannot pick and choose which lies we want to keep.

Isker is correct. Abortion is a sacrament of this evil country.

Which means we need to fully and totally reject it. Election results be damned.