Hell Freezes Over, Revisited

Longtime readers of mine will doubtless recall my several run-ins in the past with radical leftist Neopagan Rhyd Wildermuth. Back in 2018 I was startled to see him post a solid essay opposing the popular wokester notion that all white men are by definition evil and should be exterminated. That was startling, of course, because this sort of race hatred -- you know, the sort of thing that people on the left used to object to -- has become standard in the political circles in which Wildermuth runs. This outburst of common sense was not exactly well received, of course, but to give him credit, he refused to back down. 

Well, he's done it again. His latest essay is a thoughtful piece which starts by challenging the currently fashionable woke habit of, and I quote, "validating every neurotic belief human beings come up with," and then goes on to talk about the way that defining oneself in terms of an endless imaginary struggle against Evil Oppressors functions as a means of hiding from the reality of a vast, magical, and indifferent universe that is serenely indifferent to the common human sense of self-importance.  I'm sorry to say he couldn't resist parading his own status as a Genuinely Oppressed Person -- that's still practically de rigueur in the circles he runs in, and I don't think he's yet realized that it makes him sound like just another category grifter* -- but it's definitely worth a read, and worth careful reflection as well. 

*Category grifters? Those are the people who insist that because they belong to some category of people who have suffered awful things, they ought to be given goodies they haven't earned. It's a very common scam these days, drawing heavily on the paired fallacies that suffering awful things makes you morally superior to other people, on the one hand, and that the awful things their category suffered are somehow more important than the awful things that everyone else in human history has suffered, on the other.