Once upon a time, even most thieves knew the answer as to whether it was right to steal. No, it isn't and they didn't care that it wasn't right. Or at least they didn't think it was virtuous. What's the point of being a criminal if you have to be virtuous in doing it?
But now stealing can be a virtue. Or not. Entirely depending, not on the action itself, but on the PERSON WHO COMMITS IT. Are you a rich white capitalist? Stealing is wrong for you. Black man in the 'hood looting a Target? Then stealing is not simply okay but it is REDISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. It is not the act itself that matters, but the presumed power position of the one who commits it. Black man in the 'hood is presumed to be a helpless victim of forces beyond his control.
Is murder wrong, according to the New Religion? Depends. Are you bombing Palestinians? Bad. Mother murdering the little freeloader in her womb that is trying to keep her from getting ahead in life? Good. It is not mother's fault she has a womb, this cancer on her body that is trying to keep her oppressed. She needs to keep that crap cleaned out.
Spray painting grafitti all over everything? The righteous cry of the have-nots against the haves. Even if the haves only have because they worked for it and were thrifty and avoided personal vices like drug addiction. If they worked hard and didn't have a crack habit, it is clearly because they started out higher on the power pyramid.
The New Religion is atheistic and deterministic. If you loot stores and spray paint walls, or even rape and murder, it is not because of your lack of virtue but because of your environment. You are a simple input-output system. Input privileged environment, output "good" behavior. Input underprivileged environment, output looting and vandalism.
In the New Religion, all things are right and wrong depending on the PERSON who commits those acts. And what is important about that person, that determines if their actions are right or wrong? Their position in the "power structure." White man? Everything you do is wrong, white man, because you are a white man. Black tranny? You are virtuous no matter what you do, because you are at the bottom of the power structure. Because of who you are, not what you do. This is how violent drug addict and counterfeiter George Floyd, who once held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly, is now Saint Floyd. Someone who, in terms of their behavior was the lowest scum of the Earth, is now a holy saint of the New Religion.
It is not merely morality that has undergone a change in the New Order. And make no mistake, this is the order that is going to be at least trying to run our lives in the years to come. TRUTH itself is merely a manifestation of the Will to Power. How can a man be a woman and a woman be a man? Because we say so, oppressor. The fact that there is an actual objective fact of the matter is not only irrelevant, it is in fact oppression. Facts are oppression. Men can be women and women can be men IF WE SAY SO. And they do say so. Your objective truth focus is a weapon of white cisgender supremacy.
Do you say that communism is, fairly objectively, a bad way of doing things? Crushes individual initiative, innovation and indeed freedom and individual rights? Well, you don't say that because it's true, you say that because you are currently benefiting from a higher position on the power structure. You, sir, are a White Supremacist, even if you are black or brown or red or yellow.
Again, it is not a matter of WHAT IS TRUE, it is a matter of WHO YOU ARE.
It may seem strange at first that the major corporations are not just playing along with this whole thing, but fervent boosters of it. There are two possible explanations. One is that the people who run these corporations went to liberal universities and drank the truth relativity, cultural relativity, and moral relativity Kool Aid. In other words, they are sincerely deluded. In place of White Superiority, they embraced Intellectual Superiority: the idea that if you believe in moral relativism, cultural relativism, evolution solely and only as the explanation of life, materialism and atheism, you are as a consequence SMARTER than those rubes who believe in absolute morality and G-d. You can feel better about yourself that you are not one of them. You may secretly look down on the blacks and the gays and the trannies, while assuring them that you are firmly in "ally" status. You have the luxury of bending the knee to Woke because you know you are superior. You think Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, thinks of himself as having anything whatsoever in common with a black tranny from the ghetto? No, but they have all his sympathy, and that's what matters.
The other, more sinister explanation is that they know EXACTLY what they are doing and it has everything to do with corporate power and nothing to do with social justice. Eliminating competition is the name of the game.
How do they keep some innovative upstart from overturning their business model? Tell everybody they are weak victims of the system. Weaken them. Make people passive and dependent. Damage their thinking power. Make them chattel of the corporations.
Don't want to lose your valuable chattel to pregnancy? Pro-abortion all the way baby. Don't want any competing interests for your chattel's time and energies? No families. Do not want competing deities? The corporation is your deity. Your synthetic god. No G-d. Anti-religion.
In order to OWN you, they must first make you weak. Physically weak, morally weak, and they must make your mind weak. Public school education helps. They must keep your animosities directed at something besides them, besides their real power. They don't care if they will destroy civilization, they are the only civilization that matters now.
And moral and truth relativism WILL destroy society and make life more violent, more depressing, and increase mental illnesses to epidemic levels.
Quite aside from theological concerns (that there is a G-d and He does command things,) there are two power-related perils for any society: the tyranny of one or a few men over the mass of men, and the tyranny of the individual. In other words, kings and criminals. A powerful arbitrary ruler, or a tyrannical individual who rapes and pillages and does whatever he wants to. Evil tyrannical order or evil arbitrary anarchy. King makes right or might makes right.
There is one and only one third road between those two evils. That people come together and covenant, that they will submit themselves to something higher than themselves. To a Law that no human king created and no human king or arbitrary will can change. They covenant to submit themselves, internally in their heart and externally in their behavior, to the will of G-d as expressed in G-d's Law.
This, internal and external submission to G-d's Law, empowers human beings to transcend themselves. To transcend the lusts and wills and desires that might otherwise consume and control them. In G-d's Law, in contrast to the New Religion, who you are matters not at all. All human beings are equal. What is right is what matters: if you do what is right you are justified, and if you do what is wrong you are guilty, quite aside from who you are. King or pauper, it makes no difference. As it says in the Tanakh, G-d is no respecter of persons. If you do what is right and love G-d, you have His approval and not otherwise.
This path not only helps us to transcends ourselves and our limitations, but it leads to a peaceful and prosperous society. It leads to uplift and good, not selfishness madness and destruction. It replaces the Tyranny of Man (either the State or the individual selfish agent, or the tyranny of our own selfish impulses over ourselves) with the Kingdom of G-d (in which we all adhere to and swear absolute loyalty, internally and externally, to just rules that existed long before us and which none of us can change through arbitrary will.)
The road we are on, is a road that leads to violence, illness, despair, madness and death.
"All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.
Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.
The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.
The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
The sights you see will drive you mad.
The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.
You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.
Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.
Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,
and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.
The most gentle and sensitive woman among you--so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot--will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter
the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.
If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name--the LORD your God--
the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"--because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."
~Deuteronomy 28:2-68
