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--- politics:philosophy:shadowpolitics [2025/05/04 17:16] – [Pedophilia and other Sex Crimes] Owen Mellema
+++ politics:philosophy:shadowpolitics [2025/05/06 02:08] (current) – [The Future: The Satanists] Owen Mellema
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 We can now also understand why political groups suffer when everyone agrees with them. They suffer from their members having an excess of Sameness. The political group will therefore lose it's relevancy and it's group feeling, and members will go to other political groups to get their group feeling fix.
-===== "Wokeness" and the Rise of Fascism =====
+===== The Shadow in Past, Present, and Future =====
+==== The Past: "Woke" ====
 Like many of my thoughts, the concept of shadow politics came to me as I was trying to understand modern US politics. In particular, I was trying to understand how fascism, which I consider to be one of the worst possible political ideologies, had managed to gain a foothold among the population. More broadly, I was interested in how a liberal society had produced so many people that were opposed to liberalism.
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 In 2016, I predicted that a billionaire, influenced by right-wing propaganda, would take over a social media website and spread right-wing talking points extremely far and wide, kickstarting an explosion of right-leaning people, including fascists. This uncanny prophecy, which seemed unthinkable at the time, came to pass in 2022, when Elon Musk acquired Twitter, renaming it X. Now Elon, who, for lack of a better word, seems to be completely deranged, is running the show, and seems to be boosting his own tweets and the tweets of right-wingers, retweeting literal nazis. As I predicted, fascism entered the mainstream.
-===== “Antiwoke”, Transgenderism, and Pedophilia =====
+==== The Present: “Antiwoke” ====
-==== The Shape of the Right ====
+**The Shape of the Right**
 Now we must consider the other side of the political equation, that is, the Right. It seems to me that there are about six segments of the modern Right, give or take:
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 I don’t (necessarily) say this to levy a criticism of the “antiwoke right”, but rather to explain its obsession with degeneracy, and why “the degenerate” is the shadow of the group.
-==== Transgenderism ====
+**Transgenderism**
 During Trump’s 2024 campaign, he ran an ad with the tagline “Kamala is for they/them; Trump is for you”. We see from this that the existence of transgenderism ends up being a useful political tool for Trump. It’s clear why this is — it is a sexual and aesthetic form that can sometimes elicit a feeling of shock and disgust in cisgender individuals.
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 I hope it’s clear that I think that the Republicans seem to be doing more for the transgender movement than even the Democrats. Indeed, transgenderism is an element of the Right's shadow.
-==== Pedophilia and other Sex Crimes ====
+**Pedophilia and other Sex Crimes**
-Much of the moral crusade against transgenderism has been justified on the grounds of protecting children from pedophiles. There is a disproportionate amount of discussion about pedophilia (and other sex crimes) in modern discourse, which speaks more to collective neuroses (that is, the shadow) than any objective fact.
 [TODO: Karoline Levitt's Wall of Convicts]
-On April 26th, 2025, the Trump administration put a row of posters on the White House lawn, [[https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants|showing mugshots of various illegal immigrants]], along with the crimes they allegedly committed. Many of the alleged offenses were sexual crimes, including against children. It seems that the purpose of this display was to bolster support for the government's policy of deporting foreign nationals to the El Salvadorian prison CECOT, which is known for human rights abuses, without due process. This policy has come under fire for a number of different reasons, including the fact that there is good reason to believe that several people who were deported to the prison are innocent. Thus, the panic over pedophilia is being used to justify a decay in civil rights and our belief in the dignity of man.
+On April 26th, 2025, the Trump administration put a row of posters on the White House lawn, [[https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants|showing mugshots of various illegal immigrants]], along with the crimes they allegedly committed. Many of the alleged offenses were sexual crimes, including against children. It seems that the purpose of this display was to bolster support for the government's policy of deporting foreign nationals to the El Salvadorian prison CECOT, which is known for human rights abuses, without due process. This policy has come under fire for a number of different reasons, including the fact that there is good reason to believe that several people who were deported to the prison are innocent. I consider this policy to be a campaign of terror against Latin Americans, and the panic over pedophilia is being used to justify this terror campaign.
+This concern seems to be entirely disconnected from reality. It is clear to me that there has never been a safer society for children than ours. The University of New Hampshire [[https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/trends-child-victimization|reports]] that substantiated cases of child sexual abuse have declined 53% since the early 1990s, and sexual assaults against children have similarly declined by 52%.
+{{:politics:philosophy:us-child-maltreatment-rate-trends-1990-2016-from-finkelhor-et-al-2018.png?400|}}
+//mind the fact that in this graph the sexual and physical abuse rates are multiplied by 3 and 2, respectively//
+If there has been a //decrease// in the actual rate of child sexual abuse, why has there been an //increase// in discussion of it? The reason is simply that pedophilia is the most disgusting perversion that people can think of, and since their shadow is degeneracy, they project this shadow, manifesting as pedophilia, onto the world.
+Like what happened with fascism, there is greater demand for pedophiles than there are actual pedophiles. To meet the demand, pedophilia will be projected onto an ever-increasing subset of the population, especially upon those that the government finds convenient to marginalize. For instance, Latin-American immigrants are no more prone to sexual crimes than any other ethnic group, but this group is being singled out as a hotbed of rape and pedophilia. Those people who are unfairly singled out will be subject to absolutely brutal treatment, and few people will have the moral courage to defend them - after all, enabling a "pedophile" is as bad as being one.
+Having this perfect tool to slander their enemies, the Right will be able to get away with almost anything, under the auspices of protecting children. This tool, however, will be their undoing. For every non-pedophile accused of being a pedophile, the power of the word to control people decreases. People will become desensitized and ambivalent to claims of pedophilia. "Pedophile", in fact, will be a term that is co-opted by those who protest any outrageous actions of the government.
+==== The Future: The Satanists ====
+At this point, it should be clear what will happen next. The Right, unable to restrain their own shadow, will project it onto the world, bringing forth their ultimate enemy. The Right fears degeneracy, so this group of people will embrace degeneracy. The Right fears darkness, so this group will embrace darkness. They will reject all rules, especially moral and spiritual rules; they will be a form of devil-worshipper, the likes of which has never been seen before. I have taken to calling this group of people "Satanic Hyper-Pedophiles".
+"Though we see now through a glass darkly, soon we shall see face to face." Those who are wise can see the signs of the times. An ideology, based upon the rejection of all moral law, is at this very moment being nurtured in the bosom of the Right. Above, I called these people "the amoral crowd". People such as Andrew Tate preach to the youth things including the idea that women deserve to be raped, based upon an idea that all law and all morality is an element of what he calls "The Matrix".
-This concern seems to be entirely disconnected from reality. Despite the common notion that we are backsliding from a time of moral purity into a time of moral depravity, it is clear to me that we have never lived in a society that protects the innocence of children more. Naturally, people in the past had no problem with adults marrying (and presumably having sex with) children under the age of 18, as any study of the past would tell you. More recently, consider the case of Brooke Shields, a child that sexualized photos were taken of and distributed widely. When a case was brought against the pornographer, the judge ruled in favor of the pornographer, writing that she had a “lewd and erotic body”. This sort of thing would be considered deeply immoral to be uttered by anyone today, let alone a public figure such as a judge! (TODO: Cite sources here)
+I have also paid close attention to the rise of psychopathic internet groups, who delight in causing suffering to individuals for no real reason. Entire communities of people are built around the shared harassment of people. Those that oppose it are labeled "moralf*gs" -- the shame causes the perpetuation and intensification of their wickedness.