Dude, who even knows.
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Reading public health Twitter and have never been so pro-Biden as upon seeing those guys wailing about him letting us die in the course of serving and pursuing power, rending their garments, and gnashing their teeth
I am, of course, a proper pagan, with proper pagan morality, if someone places themselves In uncompensated service to me and my interests I take it as a testament they are beneath me; in contrast to the extent they use and expend me towards ends of their choosing they are my superior
(I mostly only consider Biden superior insofar as he embodies the role of President; positions reversed I’d do the same to him. Contrast Taylor Swift, certainly my superior as the world’s biggest celebrity, &ct, but able to acquire that role by virtue of her superiority in the first place [it is possible this ranking might change as I fully explore my new power post-recovery])
Think the Trump-COVID two-step really might usher in the dawning of American paganism, or at least a master morality to replace the Christian-inherited slave morality that manifests in things like therapeutic culture, a legal system that elevates victims over victors, or the whole “public health” edifice (or, honestly, the attempt to pass pussywillow Wiccans off as “pagan”)
And that all the 2010s, “cancel culture” and all that was a last gasp, that as the paganism born in the ‘60s* (much remarked on at the time and in the decades following) marched through counterculture to subculture to mainstream culture there was a last ditch attempt by the lowly to throw it back, exploiting whatever residual deference towards them remained. But unlike the '80s pushback it fell short, so from here on the American pagan future is unwritten
* you gotta untangle it here from stuff that was rather the next step in slave morality: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” was pagan, “Free to Be… You and Me” was an attempt to locate morality in the value of individual humanity just qua individual humanity; “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win”, “Hanoi Jane” respect for your enemies for killing your side was pagan virtue, resistance to “old men” spending young Americans’ lives as fuel for their war machine was unvirtue.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a Happy New Year!