Most academics and ideological opponents believe in a fluctuating, subjective morality which improves (changes) over time and yet somehow remains valid. Of course, their beliefs concerning right and wrong are inflexible and dogmatic in many instances. However, everything is subject to alteration and improvement by approved ‘movers and shakers.’ The moral progressives of the 1920s looked very different to the modern SJW when you drill down into their specific societal prescriptions.
A kind of useful relativism not only pervades the subject of morality, but also another key philosophical dilemma that is not typically discussed as much, namely the concept of beauty. How things appear and are judged based on that manifestation is actually a controversial philosophical point, with arguments for subjectivism and objectivism both deep in literary backing. Our modern world favors the former approach. We can see this most clearly in movements like the ‘body-acceptance’ fad, which is used to empower morbidly obese women into thinking they are beautiful and certainly shouldn’t alter their consumption habits to appease patriarchal men. If you don’t believe me, check out pseudo-doctor Oz organizing a fat jackal ambush on trim fitness enthusiast Roosh V.
You see, everyone is beautiful, because somebody might perceive them as beautiful, and it is true that some men do find obese women to be very pleasing to the eye, but these certainly represent outliers.
If we affirm an objective aesthetic, that in the appearance of corporeal entities and elements there exist combinations that can be counted as objectively beautiful, and others that can be counted as objectively ugly, we can expose much of the modern world as being aesthetically deficient.
One doesn’t need to trawl through MPC’s ‘Institute for Advanced Homophobia‘ to know that many of the practices pursued by sexual deviants are abhorrent, unhygienic, and disgusting to whoever dares to think about them for even a split second. Most mentally stable individuals experience an automatic, reflexive revulsion when they think of human feces, or urine, or sex with children, or necrophilia, and the list goes on. One by one, we’re supposed to accept such things as individual sexual preferences lest we purvey hatred. We are told that such things excite others, and even if they trigger the exact opposite reaction in us, this should be suppressed, and in fact may represent some unhealthy mental condition on our part. Can we not see the beauty in transgendering a nine year old?
A similar thing can be said about abortion. There is a reason abortion is not advertised using images from the procedure or its result. Humans typically find images of other dead humans distressing, and this distress intensifies the younger the subject in question. There is a visceral response when we see harmless human beings dissected or dismembered. This is why the aesthetic aspects of abortion are concealed, because it is something that everyone bar the most hardcore leftist finds aesthetically revolting. There is an aesthetic dimension to its morality.
Just as there is an organic moral base for mankind, there is also an organic aesthetic base which at the very least extends to the broad spiritual race. On average, people from Belarus have similar concepts of beauty to the French. It is very possible for an Italian to marvel at St. Basil’s Cathedral, and a Russian to admire the Coliseum, even though both are culturally distinct architectural styles.
This isn’t to claim any drive for aesthetic purity. There are ugly things that are necessary to our lives, and ugly things we should care about, but in the aggregate, to promote and look fondly upon an objective aesthetic is a very positive thing. Note that beauty is not synonymous with salaciousness, nor vanity. Beauty is just another way that through a Traditional mode of living, we ape the Divine Realm and the wonders of eternal perfection beyond. We cannot reach such a level of course, but we try, and treasure all that falls close.
In the meantime, the Cathedral busily promotes the ugliest aspects of society’s underbelly to the masses. Disease-ridden whores are enthroned in pop culture, food is continually downgraded into a mass-produced paste, it’s ‘cool’ to behave like ghetto trash, and this is all before we delve into ‘Modern Art.’ Beneficial to our cause would be to make a point of modernity’s aesthetic inferiority, or at least its continued descent from objective standards of beauty, whether that’s women growing blue armpit hair, or marriage being reduced from religious ceremony to a formally officiated cuckolding at the county clerk’s office. Modernity just is ugly, and there isn’t much that can be done to escape from that conclusion.
What we should articulate is that this fact does not stem from a personal preference, but from an objectively informed, inborn preference. The things that our enemy strives for are not just immoral, unstable, ill-advised, treacherous, and undesirable. They are also hideous.