Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – What matters and what matters not

The reverberant tin-can communique of the twitterists has instructed:

These are the giant moral issues of the day.

BLM  →  LGBTQ＋ →  ♀!

Well f my Fruit Loops, and pass my dart, so I can throw it at that lesbian voodoo doll on the kitchen wall.

Let’s get a couple of things straight. Blacks, homosexuals, and females have, in the past, all suffered serious injustices under the dominating auspex of a white, heterosexual, male Western culture. But rational reasoning not rhetoric will determine the nature, degree of unjust treatments, whether these were a consequence of natural or pernicious promotions, whether these have been satisfactorily rectified.

So please refrain from despoiling my breakfast with your voodoo doll histrionics.  (No offence intended to Wisdom Winfrey and her bevy of wily witches.)

The Black Issue

God, in his infinite wisdom, or not, did issue peoples black, white, yellow and off-sort-of-beige to populate this little blue orb. Or, jumping outside the anthropocentric lens, providence or incidence dispatched a 46-chromosome terrestrial animal evolved in various sub-species with distinctive skin colourings. Inter-depredation being a unanimous constant in the living paradigm, it was inevitable that blacks, whites, yellows would come into racial competition.

God or not being clearly not black, white, or yellow, but likely offish in disposition, therefor effecting no bias towards mortal contestants, the mere fortuities and infortuities of evolving competitions determined human grinners and groaners.

Happenstance, tragedy determined that whities would be grinners, blackies groaners. Application of intellectual, moral industry upon part of racial contestants for predatory ascendancy would also apply. So chance plus conscientiousness dictated for ephemeral white supremacy, although dictations may well have gone the other way.

One thing can be said for sure: People are not all equal.

If this was true, disparities in individual, racial, cultural, national powers could never occur. If two things are equal, one cannot achieve an ascendant station over another. There would be no interaction between universally equal entities, either, because it is the forces of likeness juxtaposed against difference that impel interactions, attractive and repulsive, harmonious and belligerent. An equalized cosmos, physical, moral, would be a neutralized theater invoking no dynamic.

So, ubiquitously, inescapably, fortuitously, we live in a dynamic physical cosmos, and, contingently, a dynamic moral world, all impelled by a fundamental inequality of forces. It is the naturally unequal disposition of forces, physical, moral, which drives our cosmic narrative, the relentless technological evolution and teleological striving.

Striving

We are, if healthy, all striving towards the attainment of simple ephemeral joys, protracted higher ones in this life. Thrust into an ineluctable modality of depredation, there are inevitable winners, losers. Cultural evolution, within the human species, dictated for the successive but overlapping generation of Primordial, Primitive, Ancient, Modern-mode cultures. These have been synonymous with generation of stone-age, wood, agricultural, industrial/scientific technologies, with teleological visions mute, mythological, theological, then modernistic.

Modernist moral vision, partly existentialist, residually part theological, uniquely but incoherently collates self-interested, humanitarian, environmentalist, and aspirational imperatives. The forefront moral ideals of this Western vision, though, are liberty, equality, humanity. This design, borne of the Western Enlightenment, developed almost solely by white, heterosexual males, is the overarching moral code under which 21^st Century woke vision has received its license. How odd, paradoxical:

The genius intellectual product of white patriarchal society, its whole complex thinking stripped to a simplistic moralistic credo and used directly against it.

It was inevitable that blacks, world-wide, having singularly as generic race never risen beyond Primitive cultural pedigree, (the curious case of Carthage aside), would end up underlings to white Westerners rushing past the Ancient, to Modern-mode status. Did Australian aboriginals, transfixed in their mythological dreamtime, think that it would never end, think they had a mandate for eternal sacrosanct existence?

Put in context of time, prevailing cultural mindsets, the values of humane egalitarian treatment, respect for liberty, were not cultured in the West Europeans invading Africa, Australia. It is disingenuous for white Australians, now, still enjoying the fruits of that conquest, to affect remorse. What’s done was bound to be done, and those bearing guilt, resentment, need to think deeper, more honestly, move forward.

Listen to Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit, explore those lyrics, her bleak life, then one can fully fathom the distinct atrocities wrought by some whites on blacks. No doubt the guys in white cloaks were devout Christians, like Cortés’ Spaniards.

Conversely, the worst inverse treatment handed out to blacks by whites was naively mandated by Gough Whitlam. Give people money for nothing, that will destroy them. A look at the film Samson and Delilah is sadly informative.

Denzel Washington is the patriarch that black peoples, worldwide, might look to. Like Nelson Mandela, who after 27 years of Apartheid incarceration left prison not embittered, seeking recrimination, Washington is, also, owning the business of cultural self-definement. Unlike the theater-mongers igniting the BLM conflagration, Washington is urging black people to look forward and be self-responsible, stop looking for white patronization coerced by accusations of white guilt.

In legal terms barriers, injustices imposed upon blacks have been removed in the USA. In Australia, monetary, land and humanitarian repatriations have been over-generous. It is up to black peoples to negotiate the extremely difficult, forced jump out of the Primitive into the Modern World. If jail numbers, drug dependencies are endemically high, then learn that crime, escapism are weak choices.

The Homosexual Issue

The film Brokeback Mountain offers poignant insight into the but recent suffering of homosexuals within Western society, “but recent suffering” the important clause.

The populist humanitarian movement of the late 1960s generatively worked to procure real, equal human rights for blacks, homosexuals, women. Acknowledging this protracted moral fight, victory, as a vital act of emancipatory decency, we yet stand in a place, now, where liberty has become license, where the liberated are vandalizing truth and decency, worse.

The natural truth re homosexuality is this: If the act is biologically dysfunctional, then it is psychologically, sociologically dysfunctional. Instinctively, the crude animal mind will attempt to eliminate dysfunctional behaviour, individuals. Humane cultures rise above this, tolerate eccentric behaviours not seriously detrimental to society.

It is a ripe vein of liberal thinking, which claims homosexuality to be a normal behaviour. It is cruel, crude thinking, which persecutes a person for bohemian behaviour not affecting others.

Teaching children to be tolerant of homosexuals is sign of a humane culture. Instructing about a hundred affected varieties of homosexual choice is perverse, and highly dangerous. A healthy culture does not cultivate unhealthy behaviour.

The Feminist Issue

In physiological, neurophysiological terms the male, female forms of Homo sapiens evolved with significant differences, outfitting each for specific subsistential functions. Males have stronger bodies, hormonal/psychological makeup driven by greater testosterone, adrenaline levels geared for aggressive behaviour. Females have weaker bodies, high estrogen levels geared for birthing, nurturing roles.

These are the distinctive attributes evolved in Homo sapiens males, females, applicable to subsistence in our Primordial landscape, ‘life in the cave’. But we don’t live in the cave anymore. Being freed from that crude existence, the human sexes are liberated from the functionalist imposts assigned by nature.

It was an ignorant, arrogant conception held by many Western males that, coming into the 20^th Century, thought females should maintain a supine political position. Via the suffragette movement and protracted struggle, Western women have achieved stations of intellectual, moral, industrial, political preeminence. But the feminist movement generically vociferous, now, clones that wailing of the universal underling practiced as vocational industry by the Green-Left, and its ridiculous woke culture.

Looking to the theater of recent political practice, we see the best, worst of female offerance: Margaret Thatcher, the most indomitable democrat of the 20^th Century and no feminist wailer; Julia Gillard, the worst Australian PM ever, coming to highest office confessing no interest in international affairs, a signature feminist moaner.

It is interesting how feminist complaint, incompetence, and the opposites generally align. Carmen Lawrence could have been a great PM but was hatcheted upon a sordid accusation that a male MP might have worn, no great complaint. Hilary Clinton might have been a good President, was the brains behind Bill, but let ego run forefront to ruin her image, presidential chances twice, then blamed the ‘female glass ceiling’.

The great gift that black African women offer a vastly overpopulated, therefor failing human world, today, is the ongoing propensity to breed at rates of 6 per couple. Economic incompetence being consequentially endemic, dying African babes have been poster-card subjects of a cosmetic Western humanitarian industry for 60 years. Meanwhile the continent’s population, and base problem, has risen from 350 million to 1.3 billion. It is the universal underling, thieving headlines, attention, who is largely sinking the living prospectus on this planet.

The singular cause that really matters, today, is saving the healthy prospectus of life on Earth. Serious moral thinkers, actors, don’t get side-tracked with dubious causes.