@dagda @Owl Nah I didn't take it defensively, as I said it's already too fucked to defend anyway lmao. I think the religious element of it is because it's a more palatable identity to rally behind than a racial one. I'm concerned that it'll go too far (again) but it can't be much worse than what we currently have or what the alternatives would be. If nothing else christians are more tolerant of non believers than jews or muslims have ever been or ever will be.
> It's just baffling to see as an ex-catholic satanist
Oh hey me too, well kinda. I was more agnostic/CofE then got exposed to catholic indoctrination during high school years (~12-16) and rebelled. Used to consider myself LaVeyan Satanist, but since his death it's really gone downhill and contradicts basically everything he proposed. I'm more of a LaVeyan Iblisist now, there's a much greater evil to oppose than the cults of a jewish hippy carpenter. My dad was pagan, I prefer Norse mythology personally but both are superior to the white light trio.
> egalitarianism has a lot of issues on its own
True, but it still seems the most moral from my perspective. As equal a starting place as capitalism allows for anyway. People can't even agree to a definition of what equality is, so it's impossible to reach. To me it's just if a white acts like a nigger then he's a nigger, if a black acts like not a nigger then he's not a nigger. Take the best person for the job whilst sticking to only relevant factors, which can include someone's appearance/intrinsic attributes if it's a front facing job or a female's chance of requiring maternity leave etc.
> the works of the Frankfurter school (which I'm just gonna assume you mean as that's what most consider "cultural marxism"
I don't really bother differentiating tbh, socialism's just retarded and far too against human nature to work. I'm a lolbertarian, any power given to a government is going to be misused as inevitably only the worst of our species ends up in those roles sooner or later. Allowing them to redistribute is a terrible idea.
> I do share their pessimism about linear historical progress and think that a better future sometimes means experimenting, failing and ruthless critique of that failure.
I still like LaVey's idea of fragmenting societies into different systems and letting people choose where to live then letting it run out their courses. Kind of like a petri dish experiment, communism starves itself out, capitalism greeds itself out, the religious annihilate one another over petty differences in interpretation, and any survivors would have more concrete knowledge (and less excuses) to progress from if they so choose. But honestly I think any system we've thought up thus far fails when it's scaled up, but if they don't scale up then they get swept away by scaled up systems with shorter time limits. It's an awkward problem to solve.