Via SF Author John C. Wright.
In the general war between the culture of life and the culture of death, I should note that the laissez-faire sexuality wing of the battle line has joined with the child-hating reserves.
In particular, I read in this month’s LOCUS magazine that famed cartoonist Alan Moore has penned a work called LOST GIRLS, starring Dorothy Gale, Alice Fairchild, and Wendy Darling, where the beloved girl characters from our childhood tales are depicted in acts of pornography on every page, including group sex, homosexuality, bestiality, and pederasty.
His reasoning? Mr. Moore claims our culture does not think and publish enough about sex. We’re repressed. Showing the girl from ALICE IN WONDERLAND having anal intercourse with a rabbit or something will be good for our mental health and emotional wellbeing.
I kid you not. I am not making this up.
http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Comics&action=page&obj_id=50999
Note how the humorless Mr. Moore wraps himself in the flag of moral sanctity to excuse himself. He is bringing enlightenment and culture to the rubes; honesty consists of glorifying sick perversions with all the wit and craft his art can bring to bear. What a smug jackass.
To think, I used to admire this man. Somewhere, bound in ice in the lowest circle of hell, the devil pauses in his gnawing on traitors, his tears of ice are checked, and he smiles a grim, lingering smile, and orders his lesser angels to prepare a place for someone who betrays his muse.
Show me a culture that hates virginity, and I’ll show you one that is bent on demeaning, and, yes, desecrating every pure and happy memory of childhood.
I originally found John C. Wright’s blog via Mark Shea and his last line echoes Mark’s line about a culture that hates virginity.
I also recently read his Golden Age trilogy which is one of those books that reminds me why a love SF so much. Despite the fact that this trilogy is based on a future of artificial consciences and the ability to be able to backup your own consciousness his own views on the subject are quite interesting in his post How long til the Singularity?
Update: I found John C. Wright’s conversion story to Christianity in a comment to a review of one of his books (scroll down to a couple of comments). Like myself he is a convert from atheism and his short conversion post is quite interesting. The post ended with this:
On a pragmatic level, I am somewhat more useful to my fellow man than before, and certainly more charitable. If it is a daydream, why wake me up? My neighbors will not thank you if I stop believing in the mystical brotherhood of man.
Besides, the atheist non-god is not going to send me to non-hell for my lapse of non-faith if it should turn out that I am mistaken.
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This is amazingly in tune with Chesterton’s analysis, which for your convenience I’ll supply:
This inverted imagination [of the baby-killers of Carthage] produces things of which it is better not to speak. Some of them indeed might almost be named without being known; for they are of that extreme evil which seems innocent to the innocent. They are too inhuman even to be indecent. But without dwelling much longer in these dark corners, it may be noted as not irrelevant here that certain anti-human antagonisms seem to recur in this tradition of black magic. There may be suspected as running through it everywhere, for instance, a mystical hatred of the idea of childhood. People would understand better the popular fury against the witches, if they remembered that the malice most commonly attributed to them was preventing the birth of children. … The pagan world, as such, would not have understood any such thing as a serious suggestion that a child is higher or holier than a man. It would have seemed like the suggestion that a tadpole is higher or holier than a frog. To the merely rationalistic mind, it would sound like saying that a bud must be more beautiful than a flower or that an unripe apple must be better than a ripe one. In other words, this modern feeling is an entirely mystical feeling. It is quite as mystical as the cult of virginity; in fact it is the cult of virginity. But pagan antiquity had much more idea of the holiness of the virgin than of the holiness of the child. For various reasons we have come nowadays to venerate children; perhaps partly because we envy children for still doing what men used to do; such as play simple games and enjoy fairy-tales. Over and above this, however, there is a great deal of real and subtle psychology in our appreciation of childhood; but if we turn it into a modern discovery, we must once more admit that the historical Jesus of Nazareth had already discovered it two thousand years too soon. There was certainly nothing in the world around him to help him to the discovery. Here Christ was indeed human; but more human than a human being was then likely to be. Peter Pan does not belong to the world of Pan but the world of Peter.
[GKC, The Everlasting Man CW2:253-4, 331-2]
Satan just reuses the same tactic over and over.
Anything innocent is “shown” to have perverse underpinnings.
I read Watchmen in my pre-Catholic years and enjoyed it very much and I also thought he showed great judgment in removing his name from the Gnostic movie V for Vandetta.
But anyone who thinks we don’t spend enough time focusing on sex does not have access to the internet, a TV, a supermarket magazine rack, movies, books, billboards, a shopping center, a beach, a room with a working window or door, or a pair of working eyeballs.
I’m sorry but when does the cat-call of “repressed” start to sound absolutely ridiculous? Hasn’t this “challenge” been issued to an “uptight” society already? Like maybe 100 years ago? Talk about reinventing the wheel, this is more like reinventing “the oldest” wheel.
Because you have a few key words in your post, I would not be surprised if this site is visited by the type of web surfer that is altogether different from your usual crowd, Mr. Jester.
StubbleSpark,
Alan Moore is the author of watchman.
Hatred of the Culture of Life
The Curt Jester has a good post on a particular author who is busy debasing childhood characters. Not for those with a weak stomach or anyone with a bad heart. Well, with a weak heart. Those with a bad heart will probably enjoy this.
Oh man, I wish I had not hit that link. What a journey into emptiness! It amazes me that I once lived and thought that way and called it life.
I’m weary of the “we’re too sexually repressed” argument. The truth is, we are dashing out the God-given right to innocence that should be preserved in childhood. It’s being done so at alarmingly younger and younger ages.
From the start of the sexual revolution to this day, I think everyone must have a story from their childhood that they recall a specific moment where they heard a risque joke, private parts crudely referenced, etc. carelessly said by an adult in front of them. You had that odd feeling of being in the dark on the matter, but it wasn’t like being in the dark on how to do long division. You knew something was revealed to you that really shouldn’t have and it changed you. The notion that it is right and healthy to “educate” children the underbelly of sexual practices is as sensible as revealing to children the many ways that people can torture and kill one another.