Why Western modernity and post-modernists are relatively boring people - and ultimately tragic people.

 The more I think about dating, having a significant other and an eventual spouse the idea of dating a person who is secular seems like dating a child or raising a young dog. Neither one is technically easy even if they don't colic or even if they're exceptionally well-behaved. 

This may come across as elitist, but ironically I'm coming to think that people who have no issue with social progressivism and have no sense of grounding in the divine are really inept. Sure, secularists can be moral but there's not much grounding for their morals and ethical map. 

Lately on social media, and I'm not true how honest these women are (for all I know they could be doing for the attention/clickbait), but left-leaning woman in the US have been publicly announcing in their dating profiles that they will not date a man who doesn't believe in [insert current trend/leftie social pet project]. For devout Christians dating is less political: believe in God and raise our future children to believe in God. There tends to be an absence of modern "Type A" standards. With a that said, a particular denomination probably has more specific personal demands -- but they more or less make sense i.e. moral and ethical standards of Catholicism. In many ways it is value based. 

A good example of "relatively boring people" would be people in Hollywood, especially actors, and the average Western European non-religious, secular person. I suppose it's just my own temperament but I have a hard time relating to someone who thinks half of their actions are based on "just do good." My demand for them intellectually is that they investigate the first cause. If they can't do that then any discussion about morality and ethics is dead in the water. There's no wind. There are no waves. Why should anyone attach themselves to them in a romantic and even sexual way besides to briefly slap skin with one another in order to fulfill carnal urges (and after willingly sterilizing themselves with ABC). It's an absurd way to live, to think and to champion.

In my last post I know I mentioned Britain, but I'll use them again for this post. (Sorry, Britons, I like your country but your overall call to morality sorta confuses me; I just don't take you guys seriously in that regards.) The Russia-Ukraine war has been international front-page news for the last, oh, I dunno, three months as I write this. It's a horrible situation for the Ukrainian people - and for the Russian people who oppose it. Now, like the US, I bet no one will think ill of the Russians as Europeans do of Americans (it's a double standard, really). Largely the UK is secular where anyone under 50 really gives no shits about the divine where they're mostly too preoccupied of dreaming being a beautician, an actor or becoming a professional drunk in the late evenings (of course I'm stereotyping). Within twenty years it'll be like the Nordic countries when it comes to overall environment towards religions - a carcass; post-Christian UK is practically transnationalism in the form of membership in the EU, their obsession with football/soccer, odd pride in the NHS and pub culture. Interesting for a few years but it soon gets tiring. They rest on their ancient history and London to make themselves attractive.

But wait, Goldrush, what about countries like Japan. Japan is largely secular where their citizens don't give much thought about morality and ethics in the form of a divine. Well, I feel the same way, but only to a degree. Unlike the UK which prides itself in being international (well, at least London does - a city which I think slightly overrated; hey, I think Paris is slightly overrated too so there's that), Japan more or less is Japan. They aren't apologetic for it. There's a distinct Japanese culture that you can't get anywhere else. Cities like London and Paris are only unique because of their history (architecture, cobble street roads etc.) - and not because it adopted a cosmopolitan outlook on the world. The more "worldly" a city or person becomes the more the same they become. Ironic how that works out.

In some ways I feel Japan just doesn't give a crap about flying multitude of flags from other countries like you'd see in some high school room in a public school Stateside. This is what I like about Japan - they have their standards which are rather insular and I like that. It protects their own culture from the never encroaching fingers of modernity and eventually post-modernism.

But unlike Wester Europe, Japan is rather socially conservative. There's more of a defined culture of gender roles. They don't go gaga on showing they utterly adore those on the LGBT+ spectrum. They don't virtue signal their "togetherness" with other countries. This can also be found in other Asian countries like South Korea though careerism is an issue as it is in Western Europe and America. 

This is partially why I like patriotism. Yes, you can be worldly but only to a degree. This is why I like pride found in the US. Pride is an absurd concept to Western Europeans. Adolf Hitler really scared the shit out of them so they interpret any sense of pride with the scent of Hitler. I don't view nationalism the way they do, and I do I think understand why they reject nationalism, but I ultimately don't agree with their conclusion about it. I support school pride, city pride, state and regional pride. The US should not follow in the footsteps of Western Europe in this regards to loving your own country. The US should not become a secular, nihilistic entity. If it does it loses its own goodness that made it truly great. 

Let's be real: Europe, as much as they talk crap about America and its lack of wisdom, they aren't going to build something like NASA, the Hoover Dam, or attract people like Elon Musk. Before they look to Western Europe, the Musks of the world are going to look further West and take a good look at the US.

So what does Western Europe have to offer the world besides its ancient ruins and socialized medicine? Not much. Though, Cambridge and Oxford are top notch, so I will give them that. Japan and Asia tend to do public transportation with bragging about it. 

Though not Catholicism, Protestant America is better than a secular America often found in places like San Francisco, LA, NYC, PNW and the New England region. Chicago is very similar to said cities, but at least the steeples that one sees from the highway show a life that was once there before secular hipsters moved in - and where a number of those steeples are still occupied by believers.