“Unmarried men want civilization dead”

For the umpteenth time: no, no and no again. In my late teens and early twenties, the only thing I was interested in was truth and becoming a genius. My hero was mostly Schopenhauer, whom I wanted to emulate – the “Privatgelehrtenexistenz” appealed greatly to me, and it still does, though I have come to appreciate Gómez Dávila more in recent years, especially now that I am a Christian. (“Truth” as in the meaning of this mostly awful existence I found myself forced into; or “geworfen”, as Heidegger phrases it.)

I had absolutely no interest in women, and even found the idea of relationships or marrying to be obscene and ridiculous. Andy Nowicki, who married, seems to be the only contemporary so far who had a similar outlook when young. I also saw sex as degrading, similar to how Schopenhauer describes it – as a Christian I hold to this view even more strongly now.

Further, there are families today who support all the destructive policies that will bring an end to the Western world, who are in favor of pornography, sexual promiscuity, immigration, same-sex “marriage”, gender studies and what other kind of vulgarities people lust after these days. Whereas I—someone who is complete trash, an ugly hunchback, part of the dregs of society and so on—don’t.

And it’s game over from an early age anyway once you understand that you are different from most people, that you are mentally ill and will suffer to the end. Except if you kill yourself – a choice I no longer have as a Christian, having to suffer through this life like the Catholic Reinhold Schneider. (Pascal and Kierkegaard, maybe even Jerome come to mind as well.)

I am certain that modern Christians would burn someone like St. Augustine at the stake for his remarks in De bono coniugali and De bono viduitatis, even though Aquinas—for whom Augustine was an authority—similarly places celibacy above marriage (see also Christianity and procreation above.) The german edition of St. Jerome’s letters even includes rather harsh (and inane) comments of the editor(s) about Jerome’s views on marriage.

To get to the point of the subject: no, apart from holy men like Augustine, Jerome or Aquinas themselves, there were dozens of unmarried men in the West who did not destroy it—except if one stretches the definition of what “destroy” means. (Like saying that of course a Tesla or Newton should have had children – but why, given that we know that geniuses usually don’t beget geniuses? Eduard Einstein was mentally ill.) Case in point, Jacob Burckhardt never married and was a great learned man, a kind of genius for sure.

(As I wrote above: 23% of men and women between ages 40-44 remained unmarried at the end of the 17th century.)

Just stop it. I respond here to a comment by a certain “Rolf” on Vox Day’s blog (Rolf Nelson?). It is not true, and “tz” errs as well by writing that marrying your cousins will destroy your DNA. It is nonsense, as the post above shows. Japan is inbred, and capable, but nepotistic: a boon in today’s world.

As I have written elsewhere on these pages: I’m an ugly hunchback, mentally ill, a loser who started to feel different from most people in his youth. The chaos, though, already began in grammar school, first grade: I did not want to attend it, and later dropped out during 9th grade. I find life to be a pretty awful experience and decided early on that I had to kill myself and never even thought about passing on this crap that was forced onto me. Genetics is destiny, you reckless imbeciles. (And my parents aren’t cousins.)

My physical illnesses are already bad enough, but mental illness tops them easily. It is truly one of the worst sicknesses you can pass on to a child.

To be fair, though, I have to take my hat off to dc.sunsets for rightly calling out the Heartistian vulgarity that is praised so much on the right – the very vulgarity that currently destroys our civilization. But only for this, his praising of his sons and so on is besides the point, for if you are an ugly hunchback, you will never be “attractive” to women and whatever nonsense you guys constantly have on your mind. If people weren’t lured into sex, if it weren’t such a ridiculously strong drive—Schopenhauer emphasizes this very often, especially in his “Metaphysics of Sexual Love”—then humanity would have died out long ago.

The main theme of these pages actually is eugenics, for life is awful enough – don’t then force people like me with awful genetics into existence.

Kevin MacDonald’s article Monogamy and the Uniqueness of European Civilization links to another article by Jonah Goldberg, titled The Wisdom of Dan Quayle, wherein Quayle is quoted as saying:

[…] Quayle mentioned “Murphy Brown” once. “Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong, and we must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid, professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. I know it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but … it’s time to make the discussion public.”

(See also the article by Harold Blake Walker [mentioned above]: Right to life is great, but not for the unwanted.)

Says Schopenhauer in his “Nachlass”:

MPAI (“Most People Are Idiots”)? Maybe. But even more so MPAU, MPAS and MPAV: Most People Are Uneducated, Most People Are Shallow and Most People Are Vulgar, respectively – often obscenely so, unfortunately.

Topping it all off by quoting Gómez Dávila:

The modern world will not be punished.
It is the punishment.

Depopulate and reforest – first civilizing rule.

In a perfect penal code, vulgarity would be punished with the death penalty.

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

Of the book of the world, we know nothing but pages written in a language we do not understand.

Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them.