“It’s your own fault that x!”

It’s your own fault that you don’t have a job/get laid/are this or that way or whatever. No, of course not. You don’t get to choose your genes, neither your upbringing and environment. And these influences shape your whole person.

I am starting to believe that most people on the net are not just idiots, but that they are very shallow and especially uneducated. These views would not be held by someone who is well-read in the classics, or the great thinkers and moralists of the Christian Occident.

I am disgusted not only by modernity, but especially its intellectual vulgarity and immorality. “Getting laid” would have gotten you hanged in the past – now they even celebrate it. Do I need to say more? Luckily, I am not alone in this, and have the greatest reactionary thinker on my side: Nicolás Gómez Dávila:

Modern man imagines that it is sufficient to open the windows in order to cure the soul’s infection, that it is not necessary to clear out the trash.

Intellectual vulgarity depresses me more than bad news.

The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.

There are two kinds of men: those who believe in original sin and idiots.

To one who anxiously asks what is to be done today, let us honestly answer that today all that is possible is an impotent lucidity.

The key event of this century is the demographic explosion of idiotic ideas.

In the modern world the number of theories is increasing that are not worth the trouble to refute except with a shrug of the shoulders.

Wisdom, in this century, consists above all in knowing how to put up with vulgarity without becoming upset.

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets.

By believing that the wax figures fabricated by psychology are alive, man has been gradually losing his knowledge of man.

The modern world obliges us to refute foolish ideas, instead of silencing the fools.

Modern society is abolishing prostitution through promiscuity.

Whoever does not turn his back on the contemporary world dishonors himself.