A reader sends this:
There are two other things that keep bothering me that I can’t get my mind around.
1.) it’s not JUST that we are facing social degeneracy. That would be one thing. Mere social degeneracy would look like late stage Rome or Mad Max or Somalia or something. What is confounding me more is how the degeneracy is being repurposed to strengthen the mega state. That to me seems substantively different somehow from mere civilizational collapse. In the former case, the main danger of the degenerating culture is located outside of the gates. In the latter case the main threat of degeneracy is from inside the gates. I'm just trying to put my finger on what exactly explains the main difference. the 'battle' it seems, is deeper than that of a fight over 'the institutions', deeper than 'culture war' but almost a kind of zero-sum battle over this metaphysical substratum that either results in the strengthening of Christendom or the Luciferian mega-state.
2.) I'm also puzzled how it is that all appeals to 'equal rights' somehow end up resulting not in mere equality but in a total inversion of things. It's not obvious to me how or why that happens.
Curious your thoughts on any of these things.