May 30, 2025

Madhubani (Mithila) painting depicting Indian life(मधुबनी चित्रकला)

Friday:
My views on promiscuity – May 30, 2025

Along with the lines of modern thinking about progress and moral relativism comes the seemingly inevitable erosion of boundaries – more often than not, sacred boundaries.

    The world makes itself apparent in many different stages across many different dimensions, and in modern times this aspect of existence has been challenged and attacked, and as a result morality itself has become dispersed and extended to such an extend that any action has been and can be made acceptable within the moral domain: such as homosexuality, polygamy, the decay of marriage, the sexualization of children, individualism, the fetizhization of the human condition, and much more. Indeed, modern man seems to have fallen in love with himself, and in his state of self aggrandizement, self adulation, and complete idolatry, the world is falling apart all around him.

    No longer can the moral and the righteous guide man to new horizons and make him strive for higher goals, because what has been made man's highest goal is the beast, completely at ease with his own decay and completely at the mercy of his primordial instincts. What has been rendered righteous and moral are the mere whims of anything within reach of animal nature and as such man has demoted himself to the extension of the chaos and entropy that otherwise characterize existence. For modern man: the state of willing chaos is his highest achievement – to exist to consume and to be consumed in the myst of a seemingly random cosmic occurrence, indeed to excuse himself any reason to uphold the moral order and in turn the source. Wish, want, and demand go hand in hand in the modern world, and they all converge around the same thing: man's lust for short term pleasure and the drive for ever greater quantities at the expense of quality. For modern man, this cosmic soup is not the reason to act or the reason to contemplate before acting, but rather an end in and of itself, to justify his strive for "freedom" and for "autonomy" in what he regards as a meaningless existence.

Mithila painting featuring God महाविद्या-पार्वती and महाविद्या

    Therefore, there is no such thing as the moral domain for modern man: in declaring himself an expression of nature's whims, modern man has put himself under the laws of animal nature; he has rejected moralism and the sacred boundaries of life as mere religious and fictitious artifacts that has served to manipulate and usurp the otherwise good and upstanding character of the "natural" man. As a result, the most sacred part of life has been reduced to another transaction, to another station void of moral boundaries and moral buoyancy – namely the creation of life itself. Today, the creation of life is not seen as something other than the result of irresponsible behavior during sexual contact. What people celebrate is not the creation of life, but rather the creation of more and more transactions in the name of hedonistic pleasure and personal freedom. The boundaries of society have almost been torn down, and the state of late decay has been made imminent.

    This all should indeed be taken as a sign of a civilization in decomposition. But do not fear this state, instead embrace your inner strength and your inner force as you move towards the transcendental state – depart the material. The world may be falling apart all around you, but by embracing the decay you can work towards your own rebirth – embrace the end of the Kali Yuga and strive for a new dawn. Do not fear decay and erosion, for it is your guide to a new life – a rebirth.

Reginald Drax – May 30, 2025.