While the social norms around sexuality in the Western world keep relaxing, the norms around cruelty only seem to become more restrictive. (Which I find the exactly right course of development, given the reality of contraceptive drugs on one hand, and weapons on the other.)
I guess this “cruelty” GP is talking about should be understood as “do what thou wilt” on the personal level. Or something like Nick Land’s anti-human “coldness”[0] on the societal level? Or maybe (what’s necessary to get to) the O9A’s[1] grand vision of a nazi-satanic galactic civilization? Making inroads but we’re definitely not there yet.
As for the sexual revolution, let’s talk about Alfred Kinsey, for a little bit of perspective: Apart from being funded by the Rockefellers from early on (go figure), committing academic fraud with malicious intent (performing “magick” on America and the world one might say), assembling a large collection of sexual blackmail material (now a familiar trope), working hard to normalize pedophilia (quite possibly being one himself), it is a little known fact that Alfred Kinsey was a deep admirer of Aleister Crowley: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/677651075150657182/
There is, of course, much more to say about the sexual revolution and how it was engineered. And, given the topic at hand, by whom and why.
I did not know who that Kinsey guy is (but I don't like Crowley).
To my mind, the sexual revolution as we know it came with The Pill and with the new generation (traditionally) trying to reject some of the ossified norms of previous generations. The "summer of love" in 1968, and the general hippie attitude towards "free love" seems to have neither satanic / crowlean nor pedophilic overtones.
Can't vouch for whatever sexual liberation movements there have been in early 20th century; there was a lot of anti-religion movement by then, from the Freudian approach to the outright militant anti-Chrisitianity of the Russian revolution.
I'm not sure when something qualifies as "engineered" but since the rise of society their have been people and groups attempting to engineer social norms for their personal interests.
I don't really have any opinions on whether this particular social phenomenon was successfully engineered or not, but there were most certainly interests attempting to engineer the western sexual revolutions (possibly unimportant but there are two distinct sexual revolutions in the west that modern historians often speak about).
obviously written by a westerner. outside the West, the unrestrained cruelty of capitalism; especially that at the end of the supply chain providing the vast majority of the things you need for Western civilization, keeps getting worse.
example; clean energy is a mantra in the West, but go to Goma in Congo, and you'll see the really dirty, human rights avoiding source of the metals essential for your batteries and electronic devices. Not one mention of this ongoing, daily brutality. it's just black people, so the West ignores it's crimes there for yours shiny future across the sea. but heaven forbid one of the people from there wants to come to the West. that's not allowed. Back to work, African...
