Mankind is one step closer to total depravity now, philosopher Slavoj Zizek said about the news that an Aussie porn star will sell a video of her giving birth. He added that clear moral basis is needed for humanity to stay afloat.
The news of an Australian porn star, Tyi Starr, announcing she would stream the very moment she would give birth to her child has recently hit the headlines and sparked indignation. The porn star herself says that she does not perceive her actions as “wrong” and has no need to defend them.
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RT has spoken about the latest tendencies in the domain of public morality with the Slovenian cultural philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
Nothing socially oppressive about some form of shame
A porn star making her birthing public it is a deeply demoralizing gesture. It is not even that much a commercial gesture, but a gesture that introduces society with no sense of shame. More than guilt or any other feeling, shame is a basic human feeling.
I still believe in manners. There are things you do not talk about publicly. There are things, at least in our social situation, which are not meant to be disclosed publicly. In the US there are already people who have garnered support by claiming that women should have their breasts bare. Why cover them? It is just to make a mystery out of breasts to attract male gaze. So, the idea is: ‘we have nothing to hide, let’s open it.’
Some made a step further and said: ‘let’s not mystify periods’. They claim that the fact that women are keeping it private is male oppression. I just wonder where this will stop.
There is nothing socially oppressive about some form of shame. Oppressive society for me is not the one where there are certain prohibitions making you keep some things for yourself. They are simply a part of some notion of dignity and I do not think it is social oppression.
What worries me much more is this idea of false authenticity. Some people believe that if you show ever intimate details of your life this is somehow sincere openness.
State should regulate what people may or may not commercialize
We all fight within ourselves by following our good and bad tendencies and I sincerely believe that good manners make us better. That is why I am incidentally horrified by the latest trends in politics represented in particular by US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which allow politicians to be publicly vulgar.
It is typical for modern capitalism that everything should be brought out into the open to make people applaud. Why some people like politicians like Trump? He openly says all the racist and sexist obscenities that we are ashamed to say. I think it is very sad. It is a debasement of our common morality. At this level, I prefer China over the US because in China there are strict limits of what you can do in public. This element of shame is a condition of our freedom.
There is a big business in third world countries: rich women, who want to have a baby but do not want to destroy their bodies hire someone to carry their child. This is a natural tendency of capitalism. Everything can be commercialized. So, we need to control it from the outside.
I believe that the state should regulate what people may and may not commercialize. We should set certain limits. I would not even call it censorship, just certain legal limitations. We should do that without feeling ashamed of being oppressive.
What is important is to maintain morality that tells you that there is something shameful about some acts, that it is wrong to do it.
This is truly a hot topic to discuss... The idea I fully agree is that some people pursuing what they perceive as full freedom, start to label plain depraved behavior as a genuine manifestation of his human nature... furthermore, they claim that since is his right to freely express him/herself as a human being, they want others to accept behavior detrimental to the well being of the society.
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This is how it begins. Allowing some overlord to decree what is right and wrong is the end of personal agency, the end of morality. The examples you cite of immorality begin with that external overlord, even the streaming of the birth is decreed permissible by Oz.
The Epstein scandal reveals one thing above all else: depravity of the most powerful. Acquiring power transforms the society around you, from ornery opponents to groveling toadies. As the obsequity inflates your ego, and no criticism restores a healthy, lean humility, it is easy and seductive to simply ignore that inner voice, to overcome your shame and allow your depravity to rule.
Government is a moral cancer, deranging and consuming the moral compass of a people, because those public servants are ubiquitously drawn from the pool of power. They are singularly clothed in shamelessness, surrounded by the 'oohs' and 'aahs' of admirers, never chastised for their immorality save by their enemies.
The Church has the same problem, yet today is less competent to impose judgment on people physically, and this improves it immeasurably. The foul fornications of church fathers is legendary, and we see across the world evidence of that malfeasance, that duplicity and pretense the libertines in pointy hats try to keep secret, behind closed doors with the children of the faithful. At least government has seized the power of temporal control from these arbiters of morality, and they are incompetent to actually seize our children by force under false pretenses, probably saving scraps of their souls from their lusts and depravity.
I utterly and completely refute your contention that externally enforced morality is of any benefit to people whatsoever. Imposing on people penury and hard scrabble suits imperial purposes, but the inevitable duplicity of the amoral Jacobins skulking the halls of government belies honor, leaving all of them governed by secret shame, as Epstein reveals. Extortion becomes the currency of control, and evil acts are not just tolerated, they are insinuated by spooks who then rule from their brobdingnagian gloom, devoid of any shred of the illumination of morality.
When we are raised by good people that instruct us in the reality that our acts have moral consequences, and allow our mistakes to afflict us with those consequences, we gain insight into what is good and laudable, contrasted with what is evil and shameful. Thus, it is free people, guided by their internal compass that refuse to be seduced by the minions of darkness, those government agents that claim to be servants, but secretly hate what is good, and crave destruction instead.
To hell with your automata, your proles incapable of autonomy, dependent on malicious and depraved rulers. The only morality that matters comes from within us, not that which is imposed by force from without. Nothing is more depraved than the State, controlled by secret gnomes wielding seduction and evil lusts to blackmail the jaded wealthy from obscurity. People are the only competent humanity, and cannot be bettered by their creations. Government is only people claiming to be uber people.
Leave people be to rule themselves and acknowledge that shame in yourself, as all must. No man isn't made of meat, and none are morally preferable due to position. It is that compass within us that matters, as that imposed from without is fungible and twisted for the purposes of power.
When positions of power are no longer susceptible to extortion due to the depravity of their occupants, you may have an argument. Today we see that those in power are vastly more depraved than their victims, and the contention that morality and justice must be imposed by that ilk is not only fantasy, it is a dangerous lie.
Look to your soul. I will look to mine.
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