The Godless Perverts Social Club: Greta Christina Likes Pleasure

Greta Christina is taking her Atheism to its logical conclusion, not as Nietzsche did (logically), but this time claiming total valuelessness as a moral principle. Pride in the concept of hedonist, sexual, pan-freedom from all restraint, Christina is on a roll. (so to speak). Hedonism should be highly valued in Christina's social design for the rest of us. That requires, yes, Social Justice.

Complaining about religion is the full time pursuit of Christina, and her complaint here is that religious ascetism is holding her back. So she wants a society which is free from religious ascetism, which is otherwise known as self-control and sexual responsibility.

"And of course, in a culture where most people are sick, miserable, exhausted with over-work, with no time or energy to pursue pleasure, with no resources to pursue pleasure, just generally ground down by life, and with little or no hope for anything better, a religion that promises bliss in the next life as a reward for sacrifice in this one will have tremendous appeal.

I should mention that caricaturing religion into unrecognizable cartoons is a hobby for Christina. And so is searching for a society built around her crotch.

"So it occurred to me: If we want to create and maintain a secular society that values pleasure, we need to fight for social justice. We need to fight for a world in which sensual pleasure is not just a privilege available to the 1% at the top who can afford the pleasures and aren’t working themselves to exhaustion merely to survive. We need to fight for a world in which sensual pleasure — good food, comfortable homes, sex education, reproductive control, art and entertainment, pleasant and beautiful public spaces, time to enjoy our bodies, physical health care so our bodies can be enjoyed, mental health care so enjoyment is possible — is available to everyone.

We should do this anyway, just because it’s right — because bodies are something we all have, and basic enjoyment of those bodies should not be a special privilege accorded to the lucky few. But we should also do it because it will be a whole lot more sustainable. A culture that values pleasure — not as the only value of course, but as an important one and one worth pursuing — and that makes pleasure available to pretty much everyone… that’s a culture with a good chance of lasting. (I’m thinking, as I so often do, of Phil Zuckerman’s research in Society without God, showing that societies with high rates of atheism tend be ones with high rates of stability, egalitarianism, access to basic social services, and general happiness.)"

Hold on. Isn't Sweden a paradise for NON-Jews, but HELL for Jews? Would Jews be OK if they would just enjoy their bodies? What about China, Russia (Homosexuals in Russia? Really? Snowden is now preferring America prison to staying in Russia), Cuba, etc. Zuckerman is an ideologist, bent on ignoring the big picture in order to use dependent Scandinavians as examples for his rationalization.

American society is already focused entirely on itself. It has all the sex it wants, all the beer, alcohol, drugs it wants. The huge TVs showing more sex and libertinism. Cars to get to the malls. The normalization and protection of almost all sexual perversion. Porn on demand. Plenty of junk food. And restaurants are full every night of the week. Football, NASCAR and Pro Wrestling to substitute for gladiators. But that's not what Christina is all about, regardless of her deflection, above.

Christina wants shed of all hint of restraint anywhere in her society, even though she now has complete freedom of hedonism herself. No shadow of restraint can be tolerated. Social Justice must stamp it out.

But returning to the sex goddess:

"A culture that values pleasure, but only lets a few people have it, is not going to stick around. "

How did all this hedonist lifestyle workout for Greece? Rome? Never mind.

Christina is all about satisfying her own crotch within the confines of hating any interference in that pursuit, say religious-type constraints on behaviors. Libertinism is actually a social negative for several reasons, chief amongst which rank disease prevention and fidelity to a family core. Christina has an open relationship with her wife (or is it husband, I forget), which means do everyone and often, but live here. And that should be the basis for society, requiring Social Justice, as if American society actually had any restraints on Christina and her pal.

It's possible that, like many Leftist entertainers and Leftist "philosophers", Christina is merely pushing the envelope to garner outrage from her enemies and therefore the admiration of her fans, not to mention gaining a few extra hits on her Perverts website. She has managed her assaults in such a fashion that she cows other AtheoLeftists (Hemant Mehta caved to her outrage in a single day). In AtheoLeftist land, that is power, and it's the other, main, Nietzschean pursuit.

It's odd how we are forced to consider Christina's crotch with her every missive. It seems to be the main and possibly only focus in her life. She seems uninterested in anything else, unless it is the destruction of obstructions to considering her crotch.

Hat Tip to Anshuman Reddy