Illusion said:
I prefer to separate economic socialism from cultural socialism. In the west, the state of capitalism is a gray area because many of the big corporations are controlled by a small number of aristocrats (I call them globalists) who also have a controlling stake in government. People like George Soros, Warren Buffet, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg basically control our society through mega corporations but they also have a controlling stake in the funding and the agenda of politicians like Hillary Clinton who are under the thumb of the establishment. Are we in a truly capitalist society when the big corporations are effectively run by the same ruling class that controls the government and the media? When we expand the bubble to include these unelected multi-national elites who exist outside the boundaries of any one government, our world as a whole starts to look a long ways from being anything close to the idea of capitalism that Adam Smith would have envisioned where forcing competition and dissolution of monopolies are essential. In the area of culture, however, the west starts to look a bit closer to the traditional values of socialism. First, we see the demonization and hatred towards christianity by mainstream society and strong support for scientific atheism which is an absolutely curcial component of any socialist culture. Secondly, we see a hatred towards all things traditional (white men, women who choose to stay at home, traditional definition of marriage, national pride, concerns about radical Islam, etc...). The third pillar of socialism is the hatred of private property and while this has not yet been realized on the individual level we definitely see this on the national level where people are labelled racist if they want to defend the borders of their country or if they elect a president such as Trump who wants to put first the prosperity of a country's own citizens. There are also many other smaller signs of the cultural aspects of socialism at work in our society: the media is controlled heavily by a small group of elites who control the message, political correctness is forced on people, sexual immorality and marital infedeility is supported and celebrated by mainstrream culture. There are far too many signs to ignore the connection but I do concede that the traditional definition of socialism may not be a great fit. Maybe cultural marxism is a more accurate term. |
The decline of Christainity and religion in general in the West is due to a technologically advanced society with an advanced popular cultural scene.
You can't expect people to live by the teachings of Middle Eastern goat herders from 2000 years ago forever. So blame that on the computer chip, the internet, the automobile, the Beatles, rock music, video games, whatever.
Religion will always lose it's grip on society as it advances technologically. It will be more pronounced 100 years now, who the hell knows we may have even conquered death by then (or not), rendering religion further irrelevant.
The clock is never going to go back to 1950, sorry, and people are not going to be ashamed of having sex either. Sorry, and Marx never talked about any of that shit either, nor was it any policy pushed by the Soviet Union, lol, not sure how it magically got associated with that. If anything the driving force for that is capitalism. Sex sells. Plain and simple. It's not communist Russia or China that gave us the mini-skirt or Play Boy magazine or silicon tits, those are inventions driven for profit.
