Statistician to the Stars William M. Briggs is known for pointing out that love of theory is the root of all evil.
After all, theory is a hell of a drug, offering simple answers to complicated problems.
The intrinsic appeal of simplicity goes a long way toward explaining why som many peole are still hung up on ideologies that haven’t been relevant for a hundred years.
Nor is it a coincidence that around that time was when the managerial Death Cult started its long march through the institutions.
Related: A Tale of Two Cults
But the Cult isn’t the only side enslaved to an unrealistic—and cataclysmic—ideology. They’ve just got control of the money printer and the levers of power, so they can make everyone take part in their public rituals until the system collapses.
Whether anyone will survive that collapse remains to be seen.
Related: Death Cult Sacraments
There’s another group that suffers from terminal ideology poisoning: the Conservatives that pretend to be the ruling Cult’s opponents.
If you previously doubted the characterization of Republicans as the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters, the circus fire that was the Republican National Convention should have you convinced.
Signing a race and gender-swapped version of Jared Leto’s Joker to deliver their keynote speech is just Con Inc. doing the “Conservatives are Progressives 5 years ago” meme.
Do you get how the Death Cult won the Culture War yet?
Hint: it wasn’t by winning elections.
Instead, they focused their resources on dominating the arts. Because the Cult understands that most people are swayed by emotion, not reason.
That is why millions of self-professed Christian Conservaives are lining up behind pro-infanticide candidates while indulging in the fantasy that one of them was saved by divine intervention.
Related: Trump Shooting Sets World on New Timeline
And they buy into it because they were primed by the Pop Cult to buy it.
For example, look back to the meme above.
Now pretend the Cult’s high priests institute cannibalism as a new sacrament. The Cultists don’t rush to pass laws making cannibals a protected class.
First, academics update Cult canon law with the new magic words. Then mid-tier priests in LA and Manhattan step in, weaving the new litrugy into hex rhetoric for public use.
The first thing most people see is a an SNL skit with the flavor-of-the-week host accidentally tasting human flesh.
Meanwhile, state and local Cult functionaries start filing lawsuits and changing statutes to legalize eating human meat. Of course, it’s all voluntary, they’ll say. And eating donated corpses will reduce America’s addiction to beef. Now that’ll help change the weather!
The first TV parodies and nuisance lawsuits won’t move the needle. But they will prime the pump.
Because what Conservatives always miss, but Progressives understand is that you don’t need a majority to move the Overton window. You just need enough for an inflection point, which is just over 10 percent.
Once they’ve hit that number. the next round of laws decriminalizing cannibalism will become law. Any public outrage will fall silent when Conservatives find something interesting to watch on Netflix.
Does that mean the Death Cult’s triumph is inevitable?
Not in the strict sense, because it already happened. We are living in the warped world of the Cult’s making.
The only viable path of dissent is the same one the Death Cult took: to make art that undermines the ruling orthodoxy.
The Pop Cult learned that showing likable, relatable characters winning by adopting Cult behavior is the most effective propaganda.
Again: Making audiences sympathetic to your ideas rquires showing characters they identify with succeeding by acting in line with your morals.
And what far too many Conservative and Christian creators don’t get is, the subtler the delivery, the better.
That means we need to make movies, books, and games with heroes people root for who win by living Christian morality.
The deep lore of Tolkien meets the brutal struggle of Glen Cook in the dark fantasy prelude to the acclaimed Soul Cycle.
And get early looks at my works in progress, the chance to influence my writing, and VIP access to my exclusive Discord.
Sign up at Patreon or SubscribeStar now.