{"id":76171,"date":"2022-09-05T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=76171"},"modified":"2022-09-04T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T17:29:56","slug":"in-this-version-of-the-story-the-little-boy-points-out-that-the-naked-emperor-has-no-soul-and-the-people-begin-to-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/05\/in-this-version-of-the-story-the-little-boy-points-out-that-the-naked-emperor-has-no-soul-and-the-people-begin-to-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"“In this version of the story, the little boy points out that the naked emperor has no soul<\/em>, and the people begin to notice”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a> uses the example of a new Disney show featuring the literal daughter of Satan — for the LULs — to illustrate just how unhinged our culture has become:<\/p>\n

Give me a minute, and let me show you something without framing or a narrative. Then I’ll talk about it, but first just notice it. The company founded by Walt Disney has a new show about a middle school girl who has an awkward dilemma: She’s the Antichrist (as her mom reveals to her one day, after a weird day at school), and her Cool Dad is Satan, who has lots of funny lines about what a wild guy he is. Funny teen girl dilemmas follow, like this one time her parents show up to a party \u2014 which, like, super bummer and everything, but it’s even funnier when your dad is actually, literally Satan. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

But no lines are being crossed, because there are no lines<\/em>. Satan is a television character; immorality is impossible in a culture without morality, without a moral framework and moral anchors. Lacking principles, no one in power can violate any. They’re completely adrift, completely free, and completely ruined. They can go anywhere<\/em>, and they often do. You can’t sin when nothing is a sin. Well, except for using the wrong pronouns, but more or less.<\/p>\n

Now: There are people who are not adrift, who have moral reference points. I continue to believe they’re the majority, geographically prevalent and often thick on the ground, morally attuned as communities and families in a global and national milieu of amoral disconnectedness.<\/p>\n

So we have people who see no lines, traveling freely across discarded boundaries, watched by people who are appalled by line-crossing that the line-crossers don’t perceive at all. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

See also this essay<\/a> from Dr. Robert Yoho, “Guess Who Passes the Psychopath Test?”<\/p>\n