Why Human Sexuality is Evil
Against the Carbon Replication Machine
Let’s start from roughly traditionally Christian assumptions, i.e. that the morality of sex depends on things like procreative marriage, with a mixture of more modern assumptions, that it depends on reciprocity, love, and equality. I think these ideas could be summed up as saying that sex is part of a fullness of life, that it completes the human person, forms a unified life that unites male and female, continues the human race, and links the physical with the emotional and the spiritual in a bond of love and pleasure. It’s thus presented as an overflowing positivity which is good in and of itself in addition to providing a spur for higher metaphysical contemplation. The rest of this essay is going to be devoted to deconstructing these assumptions. We will work through a series of loosely linked propositions, and usually each one will lead in some way to the next one.
1. There is no equality in sex- sex is inherently about domination and submission, about assertion of the will to power over other bodies and mimetically over other social rivals. This can be demonstrated by listening to the language of sex, which often reveals more than people would spell out in an ethical context. “Banged,” “cracked,” “smashed”- the common denominator is symbolic violence, most exemplified in penetration itself, the thrust of the sword or the spear. If it’s not about simple penetration it’s about something even more sinister: consumption and abolition. The body horror implications of the Biblical injunction to become one flesh have not been explored enough. As certain streams of dialectical thought developed they realized that the true sublation is simply the annihilation of the other. But all this violence is merely a cover for a deeper problem: there’s nothing there. Sex is a cover for something, a something which is nothing.
2. Sex is a cover for a lack- as Jacques Lacan argued, there is no sexual relation. But Lacan was too cowardly to really embrace the conclusions of this belief. The man who was- Antonin Artaud- saw that sex, far from restoring the primordial unity of the Divine Androgynes, is merely a Band-Aid that covers over and reifies the tragic separation between the sexes that has cursed our world since it occurred. Far from two becoming one, it’s rather two transmuting each other while remaining separate and producing additional separate things, like a chemical reaction that produces new compounds while disappearing the ingredients that went into it. And worst of all, the hormones released during sex compels the participants to believe that they have established a genuine connection, like an opium addict forgetting their disgusting surroundings in a drug induced haze. Maleness and femaleness are radically different and opposed substances and forms of consciousness that can establish a semblance of relation only in illusion and the censorship of certain forms of experience. But even if one were to ignore the falsity of love, this is no good argument, for…
3. All forms of love are opposed to one another- don’t fool yourself into thinking that the love of husband and wife is symbolic of and a step on the ladder to love of God, for this defies everything we know about love. Love is absolute loyalty to one thing, and thus completely contradicts and opposes love for anything else. Love for nation, love for a person, and love for God are in absolute contradiction with each other. This is because love is truly a form of worship, and sexual love is worship of certain ancient deities, some of whom are known as Eros and Aphrodite. This worship is absolutely incompatible with worship of the Platonic or Abrahamic One God. You have to choose! If Aphrodite is the god of love (which you can verify easily), then one cannot worship her (i.e. engage in sexual love) while also worshipping any other God. You cannot serve two masters. This should be obvious- if an activity falls under a pagan god, then participating in that activity is worship of the pagan god, and is thus incompatible with worship of the true God (similarly, if you participate in war you are worshipping Mars and thus engaging in radical denial of the true God). A wider problem here is that love of the particular is in radical opposition to any kind of universal commitments- you cannot engage in a struggle for justice while committed in love to a single person, for instance. The new Wuthering Heights movie is absolutely correct in calling Wuthering Heights the greatest love story ever written, since the kind of mutually destructive total obsession portrayed in that book is the logical culmination of all love of particular persons or things.
4. You’re feeding the archons- closely related to the last argument, but on a more occult level, is the realization that sexual love feeds the archons, powerful cosmic forces or persons which control Earth on the material level. As portrayed in Tracy Twyman’s Genuflect, these activities are a form of sacrifice which ends up feeding the forces that live off the energy of earth, and ultimately help them maintain the forms of control which work through facets of earthly life like the male-female division which ensures that all humans are kept in a state of tragic subservience and isolation.
5. Psychoanalysis shows the divisions of sexual morality are fake- the myth of positive, healthy, or moral sexuality relies on a division between “degenerate” and normative sexual practices, but arguably this was blown apart by the revelations of Freudian psychoanalysis, in which it’s revealed that the incestuous Oedipus Complex lies at the foundation of sexual attraction. There is no non-incestuous sex, and the division between moral and immoral forms of it is a false one. One must embrace either radical sexual liberation in the tradition of the Marquis de Sade, Wilhelm Reich, and Georges Bataille, or the complete renunciation and abolition of the sexual instinct. One or the other!
6. Pornography proves that sexuality is evil- A lot of people have the intuition that pornography is evil, but pornography is merely filmed sex. Why does something become evil when it gets on camera, like some sort of moral version of the double slit experiment’s observer effect? Occam’s Razor suggests the property is inherent to the thing in itself.
7. Marriage isn’t real- just to really hammer home the point that we can’t draw a distinction between degenerate and moral sexuality, I want you to consider the unstated assumption of the claim that “marital” sexuality is different from other kinds. Why does a particular ritual cause an act to have a different inner essence than it had before? Why is it that the same act sometimes has a super secret evil inner essence and sometimes a super secret good inner essence? Does any of this make sense?
8. The Kingdom of God will be ushered in with the abolition of sexuality- The unification of all things, the healing of the male-female divide, the end of gender. The cybernetic age is arguably the tunnel through which we will be pulled kicking and screaming into the new Aeon. Almost nothing will make it out the other side. Nothing attached that is. After Freud and Sade and Nietzsche, the only options are unconstrained and unattached sexual liberation in which sex is stripped of all metaphysical significance, or the complete disavowal of this entire system of bodily control and a turn towards finding immortality in the machines. St Paul, the first accelerationist, anticipated this when he said that the flesh is corrupt and that we must find something better.
Why Football is Evil:
Let's start from Christian assumptions, that sports and competition are part of the fullness of life, it completes the physical form and forms a united life that unites a team, linking the physical and emotional and the spiritual in a bond of love and pleasure. The rest of this essay is going to be devoted to deconstructing these assumptions
1. There is no equality in Football- Football is inherently about domination and submission, about assertion of the will to power over other bodies and mimetically over other social rivals. This can be demonstrated by listening to the language of sports, which often reveals more than people would spell out in an ethical context. “destroyed,” “cracked,” “smashed”- the common denominator is symbolic violence.
2. Football is a cover for lack. Football is merely a Band-Aid that covers over and reifies the tragic separation between opposing social groups that has cursed our world since it occurred. Far from team unifying, it’s rather transmuting each other while remaining separate and producing additional separate things, like a chemical reaction that produces new compounds while disappearing the ingredients that went into it. And worst of all, the hormones released during Football compels the participants to believe that they have established a genuine connection, like an opium addict forgetting their disgusting surroundings in a drug-induced haze.
3. All forms of love are opposed to each other: don’t fool yourself into thinking that the love of Football is somehow compatible with love of God, for this defies everything we know about love. Love is absolute loyalty to one thing, and thus completely contradicts and opposes love for anything else. Love for nation, love for Football and love for God are in absolute contradiction with each other. This is because love is truly a form of worship, and love of football is worship of certain ancient deities, some of whom are known as Hermes. This worship is absolutely incompatible with worship of the Platonic or Abrahamic One God. You have to choose!'
4. You’re feeding the archons- closely related to the last argument, but on a more occult level, is the realization that love of Football feeds the archons, powerful cosmic forces or persons which control Earth on the material level. As portrayed in Tracy Twyman’s Genuflect, these activities are a form of sacrifice that ends up feeding the forces that live off the energy of earth, and ultimately help them maintain the forms of control that work through facets of earthly life, which ensures that all humans are kept in a state of tragic subservience and isolation.
5. The myth of positive, healthy, or moral physical competition relies on a division between “degenerate” and normative sporting practices, but arguably this was blown apart by the revelations of Freudian psychoanalysis, in which it’s revealed that in sporting competition lies the foundation of sex. There is no non-sexual sport, and the division between moral and immoral forms of it is a false one.
6. Commercialization of Football proves that Football is evil- A lot of people have the intuition that the commercialization of Football has had negative, damaging effects, but commercial Football is merely filmed Football. Why does something become evil when it gets on camera, like some sort of moral version of the double slit experiment’s observer effect? Occam’s Razor suggests the property is inherent to the thing in itself.
7. Football teams aren't real- just to really hammer home the point that we can’t draw a distinction between degenerate and moral physical competition, I want you to consider the unstated assumption of the claim that “team” competition is different from other kinds. Why does a particular ritual cause an act to have a different inner essence than it had before? Why is it that the same act sometimes has a super secret evil inner essence and sometimes a super secret good inner essence? Does any of this make sense?
8. The Kingdom of God will be ushered in with the abolition of Football The unification of all things, the healing of the male-female divide, the end of gender. The cybernetic age is arguably the tunnel through which we will be pulled kicking and screaming into the new Aeon. Almost nothing will make it out the other side. Nothing attached that is. After Freud and Sade and Nietzsche, this entire system of bodily control turns towards finding immortality in the machines. St Paul, the first accelerationist, anticipated this when he said that the flesh is corrupt and that we must find something better.
this is the most schizophrenic thing i’ve ever read