I guess. The Internet regulations by the people who think pornography is a good way to pacify the population is terrifying to me too. I just am pointing out a serious political problem and providing a possible political solution.
I don’t really see a lack of regulation as regulation. I would far rather have the most vile and perverse pornography widely available than risk the free speech that the internet provides.
Cherico made a really good post earlier about all the powers being brought to bear against dissident voices on the right - censorship, being barred from banks, doxxing, and so on. Expecting to benefit from censoring the internet is a Faustian bargain if there ever was one.
I think the porn makes you socially liberal. Read up on Aquinas' Eight Daughters of Lust sometime, and then look at the behavior of liberals through that lens. It changed my views on pornography very quickly.
That does seem to be a reasonable assumption, though I’m not sure if it’s true or if it is how much of an impact it has.
I’ll check out Eight Daughters of Lust, though keep in mind I’m not a Christian and so my outlook is likely a lot different.
What do you trust the government to do? I mean, I get that the people running liberal democracies are evil men, but that doesn't change the fact that porn is a political problem. If you have a non-political solution, I'd like to hear, in detail, what that is.
Well, with the government we have now, I don’t trust them to do much. I’m not an anarchist, not really even a libertarian, and theory there are all sorts of important stuff that a federal government should be doing. A federal government should organize a military to defend the nation, they should help create a stable currency and regulate trade, they should protect that nation from illegal immigration. These are some of the big things. Does the government do this stuff? Yes and no. We have a military, but we use it to invade nations on the other side of the world that have never attacked us, bankrupting our nation and creating greater danger. The government regulates currency, but does so to facilitate out of control spending and materialism, placing hidden taxation in the citizens and passing on debt to our descendants. The government regulates trade some ways, but largely allows American people to be exploited while foreign nations or internal corporations benefit. With regard to illegal immigration, that is the worst of all, the federal government actively facilitates and rewards illegal immigration and deliberately undermines law enforcement in its struggle to protect our borders despite the fact that the great majority of American don’t want our nation to be invaded by immigrants.
So I honestly don’t put much faith in political solutions. My vote is watered down by an ocean of uninformed voters and in those rare events that a dissident candidate wins (like Trump) no major changes are made. You can’t vote for media moguls, for bankers, for the deep state, for corporate CEO’s, for University Chancellors. Democracy is essentially useless for the people to represent their interests.
That means I don’t believe that there are political solutions to these problems. Votes are nearly meaningless, an armed resistance can be easily crushed. What can a person such as myself do to save the West? Living a virtuous life. I’m a stay at home mother, home schooling my children, trying to protect them from the malign influence of mainstream culture and entertainment. I’m trying to live without materialism, where we teach our kids about truth and beauty, we try to be a part of community and place value in tradition and fellowship, not in what popular culture says we should value. I can’t make the government good. I can’t make big corporations good. I can’t make democracy work. All that I can do live a virtuous life and pass on my values to my children and try to set an example for friends and relatives. To remove my family from the degeneracy of mainstream society as best I can. If everybody did this, then we wouldn’t need a political solution, we would have a social solution, a grass roots solution where the society improves from the ground up by people leading virtuous lives rather than expected to take charge of completely corrupt institutions and fundamentally change their nature.