Introducing ‘Worshipping the Future’

Exploring the snowballing weirdness of our time.

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So, I started writing a critique of Marxism. What Marx got disastrously wrong. Why the notion of states that proclaimed their Marxism, even in most private communications, as “not authentically Marxist” was a contemptible evasion.

How the horrible human disasters of revolutionary Marxism were a predictable consequence of his ideas.

What vile nonsense the claim that the Holocaust was authentically Nazi but the Holodomor was not authentically Marxist was.

But then what I was writing grew and grew. It grew into an exploration of the Hegel-Marx intellectual complex. Of the underlying template of motivating and coordinating belief in the transformational and how it had evolved.

Of the underlying attitude to past, present and future and its consequences.

Of how we are at the end of a civilisational cycle that began with the Christianisation of the Roman Empire and ended with women getting unilateral control over their own fertility and the consequent Sexual Revolution.

A shift that destroyed the notion of presumptive sex roles that have been a feature of every human society since before we were Homo sapiens. (And yes, we can work that out from our physiognomy.)

Of the normative flux that created. A flux that is now being filled by what Wesley Yang calls the Successor Ideology, I call Post-Enlightenment Progressivism but is more colloquially known as “Woke”. With how the Christianisation of the Roman Empire proceeded providing the historical lens to understand what is happening.

Why feminism proved to be a crucial break in the pattern of expanding social inclusion that starts with the abolition of the slave trade and ends with same-sex marriage.

And so much more.

It became a series of essays under the rubric of Worshipping the Future. A standalone introductory teaser essay for the series has now been published on Helen Dale’s Substack. The beginning of many more to come.

Really, it is a serialised book, broken up into internet-sized pieces. Enjoy.