I Was Going to Write a Parody of Secular Humanism

...But that ideology no longer exists.

I was going to write a parody of secular humanism comparing it to religious wackos, for example, saying that religious wackos think that old herbalist ladies are witches and secular humanists think old herbalist ladies are cranks and they both want them burnt at the stake, and repeating that with different topics. Then I ran into the problem that secular humanism no longer exists as an ideology. There are people who are secular and who are humanists, but we’ve gone a long way from CSICOP debunking everything to Sam Harris talking about meditation, reincarnation, UFOs, and telepathy on Joe Rogan, presumably because he’s also been doing a lot of psychedelics.

The real mainstream ideology has of course shifted to like post-structuralist stuff, which is if anything even worse garbage as evidenced by Sam Harris existing. Post-structuralism has been around forever, and even post-structuralist academics have been around forever seeing as Claudine Gay was hired in the early 2000s and just now fired, but they haven’t been so prominent. Now, instead of the capital-S Skeptics™ complaining herbalists are cranks, we would have to have the poststructuralists complaining that herbalism is bad because it isn’t witchcraft and it’s supported by white cisheteropatriarchal phallogocentric systems of science, and that strong Black™ they/thems should try to cure their diseases without herbs, just by sacrificing some animals to the Devil because, in the words of Alinsky, Lucifer is the first rebel who won his own kingdom, and in the words of pedophile who wanted to abolish the age of consent completely and HIV-spreader Foucault, truth is a social construct. Secular humanism has clearly always been a sideshow, likely actually propped up to distract from the main un-attraction.

Once upon a time there were the Four Horsemen of Atheism, but now the Atheist Apocalypse has passed, the Four Horsemen I’m sure are screaming and wishing not to be cast into the pit with the Derrida Demons. Even a precursory look at the RationalWiki Talk pages show them littered with hammers and sickles and “comrades” galore. RationalWiki has always had a leftist bias, just as Obama has always been mentored by Alinsky, but it’s all only now coming into perspective for many people. And the apparent direct segue from the whole New Atheist thing into poststructuralism is seemingly not even noticed by anyone but me so far. I still know of people who use RationalWiki etc. and they seem to be completely ignorant, likely even in the actual sense of ignoring, all the hammers and sickles and “comrades” galore that speckle the pages. The world hasn’t really changed, I’ve slowly grown and continued changing the way I always was and these parts of the world have stayed exactly the same. This is a good sign, because it means I’m alive and they’re dead.

Secular humanism has come, been, and gone, and now we have to hear about UFOs on the nightly news and read about Havana syndrome in the Guardian. Meanwhile I’m sure poststructuralists think herbalism is bad because it’s too scientific and not actually sorcery, contrary to the two reasons for opposing it coming from the two mainstreams in the past. The only way to rationalize away ideas that don’t fit the narrative anymore is to call them a cisheteropatriarchal phallogocentric social construct, not to say they’re the Devil or they’re unscientific because unscientific diabolism is quite literally the order of the day. When you get people arguing against Plato, Aristotle, evolution, and the Big Bang for being too Christian you know the circle has been complete… which it has been many, many times. Hence my calling this blog Michaela McKuen’s Metamorphology, after my first article where I discussed the history of evolution.

This is the actual postmodernity. You know all the things people said were modern? Now they’re actually gone the way of the dodo. Do you see how it actually looks? It looks nothing like what the fraudsters said, does it?