The artificially hollowed-out reproductive organs of the hyper sexed 1990’s are completed, even perfected, in the neutered version of womanhood presented today.
Young women in the generations which followed were offered a narrative surrounding sexuality which heralded freedom from service to their families – enabling promiscuity and empty encounters to become an idol which found little pushback from the secular structure. While charismatic androgyny remained elevated in art and fashion (from Marlene Dietrich to Annie Lennox), the more visible template of womanhood was equally free from maternal nuance.
Pamela Anderson’s playmate status was the ideal, progressing to a sculpted and bronzed Baywatch icon. As recently as 2018, Anderson nailed third-wave feminism with a yawn: “a bore … which paralyzes men. I’ll probably be killed for saying so, but my mother taught me, ‘don’t go to a hotel with a stranger.’” Indeed, wokeism prevailed, and Ms. Anderson was immediately qualifying and retracting her remarks.
Terms such as “non-binary” and “gender expansive” promote a reductionist approach to humanity begun in the 1940s and ‘50s with Alfred Kinsey’s perverse work. We were given warnings regarding artificial contraception within marriage from Pope Paul VI in his prophetic 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, or “Of Human Life.” Addressing clergy, scientists, and civil governments, the document moves on to families. Regarding natural law between married couples: Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings — and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation – need incentives to keep the moral law. It is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.
Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods is tempted to forget the reverence due to a woman. In disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, he can easily reduce her to a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection. She can become a one-dimensional tool for the sexual act.
In the closing scene of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, we’re met with the symbolic conclusion of her odyssey: Barbie is visiting the gynecologist. To become authentically woman, she must now wrestle with her fecundity. The gestalt female icon herself – whether astronaut Barbie, waitress Barbie, veterinarian Barbie, ad infinitum – has yet to confront her potential beyond parties and professional credentials. This unmet vulnerability is offered as a bit of a punchline, yet screams of the scarcity we were fed.
On the subject of this talented director, her 2019 Little Women is, unironically, a much more beautiful, stirring, and deep portrayal of womanhood.
Jason Evert, Catholic apologist and longtime chastity educator, describes the progression of many young girls who declare themselves outside the traditional structure of gender and therefore “trans.” He has spoken to hundreds of teenagers in person, who often line up for hours after his presentations to confide their muddled path to social and medical transition. These girls report viewing pornography as their introduction to the sexual act. Their psyches are formed with the expectation that their intimate lives will be violent, debasing, and public. To declare themselves male is a safe space from such encroachment. Who can blame them?
Conversely, it is almost a given that any young woman is “on the pill.” The standard for American women has slowly become corporate, sterile, and complacent. New age feminism is a prison of a new kind, “liberating” women from the natural consequences of feminine receptivity to new life. “You can be anything!” they promise, but neglect to mention that it requires abandonment of feminine balance, health, and motherhood.
Apart from the theological and philosophical arguments against the hormonal birth control pill, we cannot ignore the blaring truth that ‘the pill’ is not good for women. The National Institute of Health published an article in January of 2023 stating that among patients with a history of mental illness who used hormonal birth control, 38.8% of them reported worsened symptoms. Additionally, 83% percent of women reported that their doctor never mentioned the possibility of worsened mental health or mood swings during contraceptive counseling.
Mutilation of the feminine reproductive organs, whether for the purpose of sterilization or sexual transitioning, yields the same results: a hollowed-out shell where womanhood once resided.
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In the case of both sex and identity, removing the Divine has drastic consequences. If sex is nothing more than momentary pleasure, why not erase the parts of oneself that seem to get in the way of that end goal?
If a woman is nothing more than a shiny societal status, why wouldn’t the forward-thinking American woman protect herself from the possibility of burdensome children? If there is nothing immaterial, Divine, or awe-worthy about the human design, it stands to reason.
If womanhood is freedom from the natural consequences of sexuality, then the sterilized man and the sterile woman are one in the same. They both wear the shiny costume of womanhood, free from nature, order, and consequence.
If we accept hormonal contraceptives, we must embrace the transexual man. We cannot claim that only a certain degree of disrespect for nature is philosophically sound and progressive.
When a society begins interfering with nature, on a deep, hormonal, medical, and widespread level, we must question the purpose. To what end do we run from our natural design? Why is it commonplace for young women to have Botox, lip filler, brow lifts, jaw fillers, breast implants, and rib removal surgeries? What ideal do they seek to achieve? Is she the neutered Barbie doll? Promised an identity free from subservience, gentility, and the male gaze, she has objectified herself.
“It is sad, suicidal, course our species to have taken”-John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion and beliefs, so here’s mine. I’m a conservative pro life woman who is absolutely sickened that our government can no longer define women and we’ve been reduced to birthing people and chest feeders. Women are forced to compete and undress with men or are potentially ridiculed and threatened as being transphobic. I find no similarity between transgenderism and birth control used by many couples who cannot afford, or want a child, and wholeheartedly disagree with this article. Articles like this will only lead to another four years of far left progressive policies and further damage to conservative values.
<God: Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it… Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
<Couples who "cannot afford" or don't want children: We'll pass on your so-called blessings. It's your own fault anyway-you didn't give us enough money first. We want more money. We NEED more money, don't you see?!?!
<God: Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
<Couples who "cannot afford" or don't want children: We want more money first!! Give us more money!!
<God: No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
<Couples who "cannot afford" or don't want children: Ugh, kids would cut into our free time too. We just don't have the time or money, actually.
<God: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding.
<Couples who "cannot afford" or don't want children: You're just not getting it, "God." Money, career, world travels, fun first; then kids, maybe, if we feel like it. That's how things need to work. Believe me, we know better than you.
<God: Depart from me you workers of iniquity. I never knew you.
If conservative values = "But muh capitalism! I want more money, then I'll be happy and safe!" then they could use some damaging.
Wrong.
BTW, artificial contraception is anti-family and anti-Christian. Until 1930 and the satanic Lambeth Conference, Christianity and all Protestant denominations agreed that artificial contraception was against Christian morals and Doctrine. It was universally known to be intrinsically evil. For selfish and secular reasons, a few denominations flip flopped on that Doctrine and now it is the Protestant norm. It has led to disastrous consequences. Think what you will, but for 19 centuries Christianity wisely (or assumed by us today, they were all morons in the old y times) did not let the camel’s nose under the tent and held it as Doctrinal.
No contraception for women? Then no sex for men.
So if women aren’t using a class one carcinogen in order to be used as a consequence free sex kittens for men then men can’t have sex with women that have a low enough self esteem to debase themselves and risk (mostly breast) cancer and stroke? Square deal. What else you got?
When it concerns life, as God designed it to be, the Truth is, that design is not an opinion, it’s the hard Truth that so many reject.
It is a “Revolt Against Reality” Gary Michuta (Author)
There are many logical failures in this article. It’s a mishmash of the role of the Divine, male or female expression, health and preachiness. She fails to support the claim in the title. And she offers brain teasers like this one, “If womanhood is freedom from the natural consequences of sexuality, then the sterilized man and the sterile woman are one in the same. They both wear the shiny costume of womanhood, free from nature, order, and consequence.” What does that mean? She should also not rely so much on a thesaurus.
Perhaps work on your reading comprehension and your knowledge of what is logical and what is not. Here you do not impress.
Just be honest. Stamp your feet and say that you just don’t like it and that you will hold your breath until she recants.
MM. not very convincing nor valuable rhetoric.
Well Jeff M, luckily you are not worthy of criticizing so I will receive it with the value it deserves.
This article is just weird.
An excellent piece of writing. And it explores the effect that contraceptives have on individuals and society. The male gay couple who disparaged the author for “using a thesaurus” clearly can’t relate with the feminine superpower of motherhood, so of course they would question the concept of a “hollow shell.” Let me make it clear: when I was pregnant with my first child, I suddenly realized the true purpose for my life, motherhood. Immediately after I gave birth, my belly felt like a deflated balloon. Six weeks later I was begging my husband for another child. Our femininity is intrinsically linked to our fecundity. And if you needed a dictionary to determine the meaning of the word “fecundity” as used by the author above, then you clearly missed more in your education than a properly formed understanding of men and women. It’s not an uncommon word.
To the author, you write beautifully! Thank you for publishing this work.
DC. Your reverence for pregnancy is anecdotal. As the backlash against JD Vance’s cat lady comment proves, not everyone wants children.
Not desiring children is not at issue — using women for gratification is.
Don’t be fooled, Tiff. The two gents above aren’t using women for gratification at all. Their blindness to the natural order in the world is directly linked to their homosexuality. According to third wave feminist ideology, sex is for pleasure, and procreations is a coincidental, and often unwelcome product of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. One which these two, if they are who they say they are, will never need to deal with, since it’s physically impossible for these two to procreate together. They see motherhood as a burden and a dilemma, one they are relieved from by their life choices. Getting pregnant is just as horrifying as getting cancer. One must remove it immediately lest ends life as one knows it! When you appreciate the feminine superpower of motherhood, you see pregnancy as a joy and a gift. “Reverence for pregnancy” is not anecdotal. Motherhood is timeless. There were no new humans since God created Adam and Eve that did not spring from a woman’s womb (let’s assume that’s also a laugh to MarkieMark and the JeffBot) . These two extremely sad fellows also wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for a birthing person allowing them to occupy space in their body, rent free, and then (probably) chest-feeding them (ps: that’s motherhood, and only women can do it). PS: I don’t even think MarkieMarkandtheJeffBot real. They are trolls looking to coax an argument with a homophobe. However, this argument clearly shows that the “phobia” is hetero. Womanhood and motherhood are beautifully and intrinsically linked–why is that controversial? And whoever is behind the keyboard of “Mark and Jeff” here probably knows that, at least on some level.
Motherhood is anecdotal? Or perhaps, valuing motherhood is anecdotal? Or as you state, the fact that I see it as a value and a significant part of who i am… that’s anecdotal? Not any more anecdotal than your homosexuality is to yourselves, sirs. Femininity is intrinsically linked to motherhood; whether a woman has any kids or not. This author has expressed opposition to third wave feminist ideology, which says that womanhood and motherhood are totally separate and independent of one another. And yet all girls are born with the gear to rear life. Feminist ideology removes motherhood from the female psyche and vilifies people who value it. When I stopped being a feminist and recognized it for what it is, pure evil, my life got 1000% better. Perhaps you two are just too stuck on your programming to recognize your errors.
Pope John Paul II wrote a book on the premise that the proper response to the human person is love, and the opposite of love is not hate, but use (Love and Responsibility).
Either we foster a personalistic understanding of the human person within society, or we foster a utilitarian understanding of the human person.
An honest purview of the history of Western civilization will reveal that only one of those views promotes human flourishing and true freedom.
Thank you for tackling a behemoth in this article! The Catholic Church pointed out nearly 100 years ago that the consequences of the widespread acceptance of contraception would have dire consequences for humanity, and we are seeing that prophecy come true in real time (Casti Connubii, Pope Pius XI, 1930, in response to the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion).
Unfortunately, it the Catholic Church that is responsible for the industrialization of homosexuality with the infiltration of the Church by the homosexual priests. Pedophile priests destroyed a lot of young lives and turned them towards a life of sexual deviancy that is at the core of transgenderism. Misery loves company and sexual deviancy is a biological dead end. Maybe, if the priesthood accepted marriage, some of the harm being done by pedophile priests might be reduced.
If homosexuals infiltrated the Church (which I agree, they have, and still do), how would a married priesthood have prevented anything? Homosexuals do not desire women, and the victims of predatory homosexual priests were overwhelmingly male, not female. Allowing them the option to marry women would not have prevented any homosexuals within the priesthood from becoming pedophiles. Most of them enter/ed the seminary specifically to have access to men and eventually, through ministry, young boys.
The men who’ve used and abused an office of the Church do not change the Truth, Who Is Christ Himself. Not do they render the teachings of the Catholic Church wrong.
Your experience is an anecdote and does not necessarily match other women. I’m not at all familiar with feminist ideology, but if it truly vilifies motherhood, then I’m on your sided.
Here’s something we all do but it’s especially common among poorly educated conservatives: making assumptions. Critical thinking requires evidence and reason. See if you can find the assumption you made.
Again, I don’t know what your blinding agenda is (maybe it is linked to 2 male names with one last name?) perhaps work on your reading comprehension and your knowledge of what is logical and what is not. Here you do not impress.
Just be honest. Stamp your feet and say that you just don’t like it and that you will hold your breath until she recants.
DC. Weird that you have such hate for me and my brother. See where assumptions take you?
Good one! Factual or not.
DC. I don’t know why you hate me and my brother.
Whoa! Tap the brakes! Speaking of emotionalism and a lack of reason and logic, your assertion is purely silly. I don’t hate you and whomever. As a matter of fact, trying to correct your wrongheadedness is out of love of my fellow man.
I wonder if you could even define what you call my wrongheadedness. I doubt it. My point is only that motherhood is one path and there are others equally as valuable.
Really? What is as valuable to the human race and to society (now we are also talking about fatherhood when it comes to preventing societal ills) as motherhood? Do tell.
I don’t see family planning using methods such as condoms as being sinful. I do believe that the “killing” of an implanted, fertilized egg is sinful, however. Obviously, any type of abortion violates the sanctity of life and is grossly sinful. Would Christendom be stronger if all Christians practiced zero contraception? Perhaps. But unlike the LDS folks, I don’t have any scriptural evidence that there is an assembly line full of humans waiting for parents to procreate them. God gives us all a huge amount of free will. For instance, we will all die, but we can make death happen faster by taking our own or someone else’s life That is free will but is evil and wrong. But preventing an egg from being fertilized is an act of free will also and is not evil and wrong in my opinion. I’m all for big families and feel people should have as many kids as they want, but if a couple waits to pregnant in order get on their feet financially, there is nothing wrong with that. I will not judge them for that, and neither should you (Romans 14:4). Having said that, we were poor as church mice but still had kids and God provided for us. I’m sure some people judged us as irresponsible, but I couldn’t care any less and am thankful every day for the children and grandchildren God has given us..
The Catholic Church teaches that the marital act is to be both unitive and procreative. The unitive aspect is understood as a complete giving of oneself to another, including one’s procreative powers. The procreative aspect involves potential and actual procreation, which is to say that the spouses are to remain open to the gift of life in the marital act, not that every marital act must result in the conception of new life. If one delves a little deeper into the incredibly awesome design of womanhood, he’ll find that, under ordinary circumstances, most women are fertile only 3-5 days out of each month. Hence, it is possible to space your children or refrain from conception for good reason without the use of artificial contraception. Natural Family Planning is a method whereby spouses can discern together on a regular basis whether or not God is calling them -within their particular set of circumstances- to accept the gift of life. It does not involve unhealthy, artificial disruption of a woman’s reproductive system, nor does it involve ignoring the unitive intent of the marital act as the use of condoms does. It requires self-control for about one week every month if trying to avoid pregnancy, and of course, on the part of the wife, keeping track of her cycle and fertility. It’s not impossible, is physically healthier for women, and honors God’s design for the human person and marriage. It also fosters communication between spouses about one of the most important aspects of their lives, which is so important for strong marriages.
Bottom line is that if one looks at Marxist goals for this country going back to Lenin, the destruction of the family, and the reduction of the individual to a serf as property of the government are necessary to the destruction of the country. Only communism and Islam erase history, culture, law, and national identity. To do this, the family must be destroyed, to do that, religion has to be removed from the mind of the individual, because it is religion that provides the moral foundation of a people. Under communism, only the state exists, nothing else can stand above the state. Single parent families, transgenderism, the proliferation and in or your face of deviant sexual mores are tactics that serve to move society towards the breakdown necessary to achieve the enlightened communist oligarchy that will rule over all.
This is the antithesis of Christianities pro-life directive. Women have been the target, given the cold hearted response to the rapes in Colongne on New Year’s Eve in 2015. Angela Merkel’s telling German women to get used to rape should have been the end to her regime. However, the lib female soldiered on and is suffering a rising rape epidemic across Europe. The feminists accept the ‘sacrifice’ – this war on women – the most radical execution is FTM transgenderism. Only the females suffer a complete desexualization, totally destroyed as a human being capable of participating in procreating. The biological female transitioning to male (FTM) has her breasts removed as the first step, all the while ‘guided’ by ‘caring’ people who just want the subject to subject themselves to the most horrific self mutilation imaginable all done at the expense of the taxpayer. The female has her uterus removed. In a 16 year old, this destruction denies the individual so much of life. Yet, the reality is, 84% of the FTM transgenders self-recover without outside intervention. For the MTF transgender, the lie is most obvious. The guys keep their ‘package’ without modification, other than through hormone blockers. 98% of the males recover without outside intervention. By the 5th year of this insanity, 98% of transgenders walk away. However, only the girls are destroyed sexually. Look at the violence against females in sports by MTF transgenders. Women voted to allow this, women are keeping this insanity alive. The mentally ill need treatment not encouragement to self-destruct. The mental health system needs to be restored, but without the homosexual medicos and therapists and communist ideologues who have proliferated and infiltrated every level of of gov’t to drive forward and keep alive what we all know to be literal insanity. 43% of liberal women have at least one diagnosed serious mental disorder. Gender Dysphoria is a temporary mental disorder, this is proven by the high rate of self-recovery without outside intervention by both FTM and MTF transgenders. Audrey Hale, the Nashville school shooter who killed 6, is now known to have had at least 5 serious mental disorders diagnosed. Anyone who says the hormone blockers, surgery and massive doses of opposite sex hormones are ‘gender affirming care’ are simply liars. MTF transgender who keeps their sexual organs, gets to shower with the girls in HS and college. The violence of these MTFs in girl’s sports should be another warning shot across the bow of feminism. No one on the Left cares if the biological female is injured by the genetically stronger MTF fraud. Transgenderism is the focal point of this war on women. The biological female is reduced to a sexless drone while the biological male is allowed to entertain their desires and to act to harm females in women sports while being pandered to as ‘women’. Please. Figure it out. It is women who are the librarians, teachers and administrators who are the worst of the worst in our schools working to destroy kids minds and bodies to achieve a Marxist utopia that does not exist. Remember, the Red Guards that our kids are being indoctrinated to become turned on the parents and adults. It is interesting to me that Mao’s version of communism is being employed in this war on the family and the Constitution. The minds behind this are cold, cynical, clinical and committed.
Some of what you say about trans surgeries is not true. Male to female transitions start with puberty blockers in young boys. The result of puberty blocking a young male is that the growth and development of the reproductive organs is stunted. Adult male detransitioners complain about two things: total sterility because their prostate and testicles ceased to mature into adulthood, and tiny penises, too small to pee standing up. These guys don’t function as a grown male can. No erection, no fertility. Not able to relieve themselves the same way.
Also detransitioning men who have experienced the surgeries attest, particularly in Portland Oregon, they are rushed into the surgeries for a total removal of the male sex organ. They cut a channel in the abdomen behind the scrotum, invert the penis, and turn it into a “vagina.” This frequently fails and necroses. At this point they have no sex organs at all, and they are on a catheter to urinate for the rest of their lives.
These are kids, mind you. They usually have very broken relationships at home and they are sucked in by the idea of having a new family… they don’t get information about risks and they don’t have the ability to consent legally. It’s horrific.
Becoming a mom, tho, is not horrific. Being proud to be a woman and embracing the superpower of mother hood… or GASP… wifely submission!! Is 100% amazing. Hard? Yes. Goes against third wave feminist ideology in the most radical way possible? You betcha. Positive outcome? Absolutely! For the woman, for her family, and for the rest of society.
If the crybaby above can get over it with “everybody hates me” and see the forest for the trees, then he or they will notice that being a fecund woman is not an anecdote. Mothers are revered across all cultures and societies as far back as human history for a reason. Because motherhood is anything but anecdotal. The ability of our specie to procreate is not a mechanical or biological process. The bond between a man and woman, which is rightly described as “unitive and procreative” is the fabric of society. All forms of sexuality that removes one or both of these “natural ends” of sex are sinful because they hurt the people involved one way or another.
You think too much about other people’s genitals. Kinda gross and embarrassing.
Even though with your stunning intellect you came up with your best argument, grow up.
The Pill is the first transhumanist device. The others one follow soon. In vitro fertilization. Bottled embryos. Surrogate wombs. Cloning. Genetic screening. Genetic manipulation. Organ harvesting. Mechanical spare parts. Chimeras. Brain implants. Deep brain stimulation. Ritalin for the young, Viagra for the old, Prozac for everyone. And, to leave this vale of tears, a little extra morphine accompanied by Muzak.
Aldous Huxley depicts human life seven centuries hence, living under the gentle hand of humanitarianism rendered fully competent by genetic manipulation, psychoactive drugs, hypnopedia, and high-tech amusements. At long last, mankind has succeeded in eliminating disease, aggression, war, anxiety, suffering, guilt, envy, and grief. But this victory – said L.R.Kass – comes at the heavy price of homogenization, mediocrity, trivial pursuits, shallow attachments, debased tastes, spurious contentment, and souls without loves or longings.
The Brave New World without God has achieved prosperity, community, stability, and nigh-universal contentment, only to be peopled by creatures of human shape but stunted humanity. They consume, fornicate, take “soma,” enjoy “centrifugal bumble-puppy” and other technological distractions, and operate the machinery that makes it all possible. They do not read, write, think, love, or govern themselves. Art and science, virtue and religion, traditional monogamist family and friendship are all passé. What matters most is bodily health and immediate gratification. No one aspires to anything higher: Brave New Man is so dehumanized that he does not even recognize what has been lost. In Huxley’s novel, everything proceeds under the direction of an omnipotent, albeit benevolent, world state. Yet, the dehumanization that he depicts does not really require despotism or external control. To the contrary, precisely because the society of the future that we are striving to create will deliver exactly what we most want -health, safety, comfort, plenty, pleasure, peace of mind and length of days – we can reach the same humanly debased condition solely on the basis of free human choice. No need for World Controllers. Just give us the technological imperative, liberal democratic society, compassionate humanitarianism, moral pluralism, and free markets, and we can take ourselves to a Brave New World all by ourselves -and without even deliberately deciding to go. In case you had not noticed, the train has already left the station and is gathering speed, although there appear to be no human hands on the throttle. Some among us are delighted, of course, by this state of affairs: a few scientists and biotechnologists, their entrepreneurial backers, and a cheering claque of science fiction enthusiasts, futurologists, transhumanists, LGBT and woke libertarians.
In the course of the last half-century of the previous century, the second secularization began, characterized by the phenomena of globalization, the financialization of the economy, and especially the fourth industrial revolution that started in 2001 with the project of convergent technologies. These technologies result from the synergistic combination of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, artificial intelligence, and neurosciences, or cognitive sciences.
The first secularization was imposed after the French Revolution. Max Weber wrote unforgettable pages about the first secularization, marked by the aphorism that says: “Etsi Deus non daretur”—in the public sphere, one must act “as if God did not exist.” The slogan of the second secularization, however, is: “Etsi communitas non daretur”—”as if the community did not exist.” Today’s slogan is “I want, therefore I am” (“Volo, ergo sum”), meaning “I am what I want.”
The expression “convergent technologies” stems from the fact that in the fourth industrial revolution, there was no new discovery or breakthrough innovation, unlike in the previous three revolutions (for reference: in 1784, the invention of the steam engine marked the first industrial revolution; in 1870, the advent of electricity and chemistry initiated the second; and in the early 1970s, the birth of computing marked the third industrial revolution). The four new technologies of the NBIC group are the mature fruit of the third industrial revolution, which gave way to the fourth towards the end of the last century.
Artificial intelligence, robotics, genomics, and computing, interconnected in a multiplicative relationship, are literally revolutionizing the mode of production, the sense of human work, democracy, and public ethics.
Artificial intelligence is now established, and the next stage will be artificial consciousness. It promises an enhancement, and thus a transformation, of both humanity and society. The goal pursued is not only the enhancement of the mind, nor merely the increased diagnostic and therapeutic capacity for a range of pathologies, nor even the improvement of methods for controlling and manipulating information. What is being aimed for is the artificialization of man and, at the same time, the anthropomorphization of the machine. The transhumanism project, particularly advanced by Google and their “guru,” scientist Raymond Kurzweil, also has a religious motivation.
It testifies to a kind of despair concerning humanity as it currently is, aiming to transcend it. There was a time when efforts were made to develop the human, to give it more power and moral qualities; hence the dual meaning of the adjective “human”: for example, we speak of humane treatment of animals, which has a precise meaning. But it seems that now, as Nietzsche first formulated it, man is something that must be transcended. It’s the famous formula of Zarathustra—I’m not exactly sure what he meant by it: he flirts with Darwin, who was present throughout European intellectual life, only to declare at the end of his life that he never intended to suggest that man should be replaced by a new species. In that case, he should have expressed himself a bit more clearly! Especially when he says: “You have walked the way from worm to man: why not go further?” It is nonetheless a very clear allusion to biology. In any case, what interests me here is noting that there is a loss of confidence in humanity because it is sought to be replaced with something else. Or at least, it is desired to improve humanity so that there is no longer any need for morality, since a remade man would not even think of acting wickedly, contrary to the rules of good and evil.
In summary, we live in a post-Masonic society, not in a diachronic or temporal sense, but in the sense of the definitive adoption of Masonic categories in lifestyle, language, and global culture. This is defined by a dual simultaneous module: one for the affluent classes, which is the disembodied angelism of the will, and the other for the popular classes, which is animalism. The Gnostic/Masonic revolution asserts the primacy of moral relativism (i.e., civil and “reproductive” rights) in the lives of individuals, the lodge, institutions, and the laws that must regulate liberal democracies.
Modern or first and postmodern or second secularization, in reality a single Revolution in five historical acts—theological/Lutheran, political (Masonic), economic (NOMA: ethics detached from profit), sexual (the Pill), and anthropological (gender)—, lies in the rupture between faith and reason, the oblivion of realism, of St. Thomas.
If the State frees itself from the upper limit of natural law, it also frees itself from the lower limit, the personal rights of citizens. The abandonment of natural law and the shift to state absolutism do not bring more freedom, but less freedom. Every human government exercises its jurisdiction over a territory already occupied by another king, Christ, who is above it. Therefore, it must respect His laws, which are superior to any human law. The Church does not ask that the State be subject to the clergy, but to truth and natural law. Either natural law is accepted as common ground for men, the law of truth, or the non-redemption of the world consists in the non-decipherability of creation, of masculinity/femininity, of truth. A situation that inevitably leads to the dominance of pragmatism, and the power of the strongest becomes the god of this world.
Above the kingship of the State, of man, of the will to power, there is the social kingship of Jesus Christ, the Eucharistic kingship. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ has come to destroy the kingdom of Satan and will be preceded by the time of the secrets of Medjugorje. The victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is certain, but this does not make the battle any less hard.
Wow! A book. Grok is good. Ha
Your prose is too prolix.
Joseph Heller
Totally agree with this article. Chemically sterilized women & sterilized sex have directly led to abortion (where contraception is introduced, abortion goes up), acceptance & lauding of homosexuality, euthanasia, and the trans agenda. See https://www.hli.org/contraception-facts/ and https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/all-the-pro-life-facts-about-hormonal-contraception-that-you-probably-dont/ to start. We’ve been lied to and played by evil, selfish forces for long enough.
A. You’ve been lied to alright. And you want to be lied to. Much easier than critical thinking and research.
DC: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”. Why are you so energized to support motherhood? Motherhood is swell, obviously, but it isn’t the only path to a meaningful life. I feel your Christian vibe. Maybe keep it to yourself. As 2025 VP Mike Walz said, “Mind your own damn business.”
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” -William Ross Wallace
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” -Mike Abortion-all-9-months-of-pregnancy-put-tampons-in-the-boys-bathrooms Walz
Minding his own business much, is Mike Walz?
Markjeff is gullible enough to shill for A-Walz (or Tampon Tim?). And he talks about critical thinking? Pathetic.
Markjeff, you might want to choose propaganda that doesn’t directly condemn your guy.
Mind your own business? Don’t forget, A-Walz is the A-**** that also set up an East German style ‘snitch on you neighbor’ line if they dared not wear their worthless face diaper or if they dared to have friends and family over during the China Virus.
Very curious to know how this woman feels about people who wear glasses