RE: Why did Communists promote Evolution?
July 28, 2023 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2023 at 2:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 28, 2023 at 1:20 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm not too focused on it's use, intended or incidental. I see a good story for what it is. That they decided to use a good story for such a shitty purpose is just par for the course with abrahamism, as far as I'm concerned. The folks who came up with it could have been actual saints and wanted nothing but good to come of it and the abrahamists would have said "fuck that, we're not doing that, we're doing this instead".
I think the subtext of the story also makes it far different from a coming of age story.
A coming of age story centers on the growth from childhood to adulthood, with the adulthood being implicitly the natural next stage and irrespective of whether the individual protagonist of the story thrived by reaching it, it is regarded as a uplift in broader sense over what came before. Coming of age is ultimately an affirmation of humanity.
The Abrahamic story is precisely the opposite. It is a story of degradation, with the state of infantilism at the beginning being the ideal and the state of responsibility a state of enforced degradation . The only uplift is to return to the state of infantilism and that is only made possibly by complete subservient to a divine old man who like the Bronze Age Middle East despot demand to be regarded as completely removed from any state achievable by mere mortals. The abrahamic story is fundamentally an affirmation of misanthropy.
