Degenerates and Conservatives Are All the Same

Nowadays, much outrage is sparked over the so-called degeneracy that is rife in modern society.

Some people are physically sickened by the utter filth that is present in songs commonly played.

Some people rile over the dress choices of those galivanting in the night; human bodies being shown off like a ribboned sports cars in the window display of a dealership. Ribbons: The way some people dress, this may as well be the only thing they’re wearing.

Some people’s insides burn over the immodest, distasteful actions of modern degenerates. Forget having shame over the number of people you’ve been intimate with; nowadays, people boast these statistics as a point of pride.

Wretched. Shameless. Disgusting. You call these people the modern degenerates.

Whether your personal values hail from religion, tradition, or a natural appeal toward more conservative principles, you find good reason to be enraged by the state of affairs.

But if you suspended your critical thoughts, conversations, and online speeches for a moment — and looked in the mirror — would you still be so angry at others?

You tell yourself you are, in some way, better. You won’t succumb to these standardless ways of living. You wholly reject the culture of the degenerates and their belief system (or the lack thereof it).

But why are you angry? Why do you expend so much energy mulling over how corrupt all these people are? Why do you spend hours observing the degenerates — both in-person and online?

The truth is, your so-called enemy gives you something you’re desperate for:

You’re addicted to the anger and the energy they give you. It’s your drug of choice.

Where would you be if you didn’t have an entire societal group to shun? What would you spend your time doing if not finding ways to emphatically declare how wrong and disgusting all these people are?

The truth is, you need all these so-called degenerates to exist. Because, without them, you wouldn’t have someone to point fingers at.

If you’re eyes couldn’t stare and roll at them, they would be forced to look in the place you detest even more:

The mirror.

This is not at all to suggest that the vulgarity in modern society is to be celebrated, or it is somehow ‘good.’ Indeed, the loud ones are usually the most insecure and tormented.

But why do you care so much about what others do.

You’ll curse. You’ll stare. You’ll campaign for things to change and for people to revitalise some sense of decency and self-respect.

Every generation will have those set of people that talk about the ‘good old days,’ and how standards are slipping. They will profess that society has lost its way.

But society is society. It changes: It moves up, down, left, and right. It always chops and changes. Every generation has its hedonists and ascetics; this will always be the case.

You, however, are you. So why care so much about what society is wearing today, or what flavour it will pick tomorrow?

Distracting yourself from your self serves only to obliterate your chances at evolving.

You moan and groan about all the drugs people are on these days. But have you stopped to consider your own choice of narcotic? Are you not intoxicated on rage and hate?

One persons uses cocaine, another persons uses meth. At the end of the day, they’re both drug users. One person is new wave; the other person is old wave. One person prides themselves on following trends; the other person prides themselves on being ‘above’ them.

The enraged conservative is the same as the modern degenerate. Both live an existence of unfulfilling distractions. Both attach themselves to empty cultures and identities that serve to do nothing but distract from things of genuine substance.

You have more than a life-time of your own garbage to wade through, so why not concern yourself with that?

Oh, no. That would be too difficult.

Pointing at another’s litter pile is far more tantalising.