Modernity, Not

Hollow and empty progressive conceits (a gonzo reprieve from gardening)

One of the most hollow and empty ideas of the religion of progress is the electric automobile. If we take progressives to be the primary adherents of the religion of progress, of sheer faith in progress, then we might assume, as progressives care so much about the poors, then they will want all the (minority) poors to have electric vehicles. Without going into a long study on the technological fallacy that is changing out the gas powered fleet for electric, when was the last time you heard a progressive talk about the fact that most poors buy old, used vehicles, but that an old, used electric vehicle is going to need a new $10,000+ battery, and what kind of fool is going to put a ten thousand dollar battery in a ten year old vehicle? Not a poor one, said no progressive ever.

GREAT DEAL! This used car with 115,000 miles from 2012 driven in this climate will cost you only $25,000 plus a new battery!

Everybody knows consumer product has turned to crap the last few decades. Gas powered cars are an exception, because most people need one to survive economically and America is still a car culture. Except the price of modern fossil fuel vehicles has also skyrocketed, relative to inflation, while you have to be wealthy to drive an EV. The price of EV’s is going to go down when everybody is driving one, say the progressives, but that is like saying a new gas powered truck is a lot more affordable than it was in 1980, except that 1980 truck is probably just as expensive in today’s used car market as it was in 1980, while a new truck is going to set you back about $50,000. How’s that for faith in progress! All you have to do is break your brain and your bank account to believe in it.

But then this is all surely a moot point as flying cars must be just around the progressive arc of historical justice, yes?

Except, in the deep dark heart of progressives, they want you walking or riding a bicycle before you drive an EV, which probably means the horse and buggy will make a resurgence before too long (the horse will have a methane mask on it’s face and ass - Climate Change! Kaching!). Though if you live in the city, and everybody will whether you like it or not, you can probably rent an electric scooter, seven months of the year in the north country. The rest of the time you can walk around your frozen fifteen minute neighborhood and spend your universal basic income, though virtual reality and the drugs to facilitate it will be free, in which case you won’t know you are in pod lockdown 12 months of the year. Nature is best left to minor-attracted vaxx to the maxx magnates like Billio Gatae and Georgeo Soreass, anyway. Besides, trans breed themselves unto oblivion (which is the point, right?), so America will be Chinese Communist Party in a generation, so conjecture about the future of progress is best left to the children of Mao.

I know, it’s soooo racist and phatphobic!

Morbidly obese CCP kids aside, did you know modernity is a myth, like the Hero’s Journey? Except the Hero’s Journey is about psychological maturation (of the male in particular), while modernity is mostly about thinking we are better greater smarter than God and nature, men are antiquated and there is no such thing as a woman, duh. Babylon probably thought it was ultra modern too, aka better than everybody else, as does every civilization. The only difference between this and any other is, we are less healthy and psychologically mature on average, and more separated from nature, while not one whit less abusive to innocents. Good thing is, we are more technologically savvy than anybody ever at censorship and propaganda (except maybe for modern Chinese civilization.) Onward Progress! Manifest Destiny begins to look like Klaus Schwab in drag. Oh, wait, my mistake….

The very picture of healthy progress

I have to get this out of my system before AI is attached to my digital currency, admin-ed by progressive social justice zealots. Hopefully it isn’t retroactive or I’ll be account-negative the rest of my days, in perpetual debt to The Man, I mean Woman, I mean Thing? It?

Whatever progress is, it doesn’t look like pollinator extinction, and being outside most of my life and not a little ecologically aware, climate change is categorically not the culprit, modernity and chemical “progress” is. I don’t know what identity group cares about pollinators, though it does seem very progressive to buy pollinator plant seed and pollinator houses, though that does nothing at all if there aren’t any pollinators in your area because of habitat loss and systemic toxicity, though you are far more likely to hear from progressives the moral duty of eating bugs, than you are about dicamba or neonicotinoids. Yeah, pollinator collapse is still a thing…

Progress clearly looks like the first ever indictment of a former president and Republican party front runner during a presidential election. That is, if you consider collusion between the Biden Administration, the Democratic Party, the DOJ, FBI, Homeland Security, mainstream media, Google, Facebook and Apple to be the arc of democratic justice. It is progressive evidently to send the message that if you question any of the above you are open to getting trumped. Nothing says democracy like 87,000 new IRS agents unleashed on anyone with a social media history critical of the Democratic Party/woke trans globalist. Modernity begins to look like the gradual collapse of western civilization, American decline into authoritarianism unto chaos.

John Gast, American Progress, 1872

The greatest conceit of progressives though, is that they are more evolved than anybody living or dead. They are the leading edge of modernity, that makes them the natural arbiters of justice, above the law, and if you don’t believe it you are a backwards racist bigot misogynist white supremacist - a modern native American savage. Trans is the new colonial expansion, sea to shining sea, woke the angel of wrath exterminating the white man to make way for a BIPOC, LGBTQ+ dominion, where ever-refreshed illiterate migrant masses do all the hard labor without question, their children turned into eunuchs.

Usurper, say hello to my little friend, Nemesis, whose favorite prey are the conceited, so very sure about their evolutionary superiority. There is no escaping the fate of hubris.

Anyway, my point is, dear reader, modernity is a passing phase. We must learn to transcend it. Nemesis is a friend to the humble self-aware. The idea of America is enduring, if we Americans can remember how to tell that story, if we remember how to live it.