Smash The Overton Window

Yes, you saw that right, OZ is back with a brand new post. The greatly abridged version for the riddlin strung-out zoomers among us is that I had a second kid, moved out of the country for an open ended sabbatical, and recently returned to relocate my family out of Sodom to a new state and city. Now that I've found an acceptable simulacra of life that our ancestors would have been able to recognize (and not think they were being overwhelmed by blue-haired demonic hallucinations) I have found myself with some time to write down some thoughts again. That's either really exciting or frustrating for you, and either way I don't care.

Beyond Clown World

Remember Clown World? Ah, those were the good old days. If you missed it, we've entered into and are passing through full blown circus world, where constant performances threaten to one-up the latest demonstration of insanity. As we approach the dim flickering neon Exit sign on the other side of the circus tent, we can start to catch glimpses of why lies beyond, and it appears familiar enough to recognize but unsettling in an "uncanny valley" sort of way.

All of the same performers from the circus world are there, but without their costumes and masks. Baby-killers are skipping the "concerned for women's health" mask and just full blown confessing their love of infanticide. The "social justice" freak show put away all the make up and wigs and are now openly admitting their desire to punish white people. The "diversity is our strength" magic show threw out the mirrors and clever tricks to hide their sleight of hand to openly gloat about the replacement of heritage Westerners. To be honest, the honesty is refreshing.

Where is the Church in all of this?

Unless you are fortunate enough to live in a former Eastern Block country where the church built up some degree of an immune system to this global-liberal insanity, the church has largely been complicit in this tearing down of Kingdom progress in the west. Before you think I am talking about those denominations that put tramphag female pastors (who'd sooner deep-throat rainbow dildos in the pulpit than teach anything biblical), this isn't about them.

No, I'm talking about the so-called "conservative" denominations and congregations who stroke their beards and pat themselves on the back for being "edgy" and "counter-cultural" while still harboring and propagating the same liberal presuppositions as the leftists they so loath.

NOTE | Being the firm believer in fairness, equality, and diversity that I am, I must point out that both protestants and Catholics overwhelming share the same fatal mental sewer blockage that has prevented these shitty ideas from being flushed down the drain.

Your Mental Diet Sucks Worse Than Your Actual Diet

You might be wondering by now how I slipped out of the straight-jacket I belong in long enough to find a keyboard and an internet connection to write all this. The conservative churches are liberal too? Hold up. That can't be right, can it?

If what I am writing seems schizo like it was written by Hunter Biden while strung out on drugs (redundant, I know), it is a good indicator that your mental diet is terrible and you are suffering from major mental-nutrient deficiencies from only "eating" from the middle of the overton window.

Similar to how people suffering from the pica eating disorder crave the consumption of non-food, the cultural political educational climate of the past several generations has given everyone a hankering for middle-of-the-overton window

The Overton Window Explained

In every society or group there exists a "window" of acceptable opinions to hold and to share on any given topic or range of topics. These will vary tremendously by the society or group. For example, in certain Islamic countries and traditions there exists a range of acceptable opinions regarding women's covering. On the right edge of the window is the full-covering of the Burka, while on the left there is far less covering of the Hijab. By western standards, where women are able to wear just about anything or nothing without penalty, this is a very narrow and in the "radical" if not "unthinkable" section outside the window.

In the modern West there is a narrow window of acceptable political, religious, and philosophical thought that all presupposes liberal ideals such as the equality, or brotherhood, of man, democracy, and historical progress. These artifacts of the so-called "enlightenment" loom large in all western thought.

But do these background assumptions actually make sense in light of the Biblical narrative and our lived experience? Are all men equal when God loves some and hates others (Romans 9:13, or the ordered genocide of the Canaanites, for examples)? Does democracy even show up anywhere at all in the Bible? Have we really progressed from the 1800's where literacy rates were up, crime was down, families were intact, and Christianity was utterly-pervasive? What about the middle ages, a time when serfs had more leisure time than the modern 9-5 worker?

"bUt OZ wHaT aBoUt tEcHnOloGy!?" Much of our technology has resulted in nearly unbelievable amounts of de-humanization, both in our social experience and our physical bodies. Go read Industrial Society & It's Future and get back to me (and probably get on an alphabet soup agency's watchlist).

So, uh, what does this have to do with Christian Sexual Strategy?

Everything. The Overton Window reflects normality and we live in a time when normal is fat, alone, and useless. The Overton Window is a trap to keep you fat, alone, and useless, so until you shatter the window and begin exposing yourself to radical thought (i.e., things that would have been considered normal by most of our forebearers) you will struggle to be anything other than a normie with commensurate results.

Lifting, Aesthetics, and Kingdom Come

Western Christianity doesn't value strength, aesthetic, or the material due in large part to an overdeveloped sense of the spiritual that is at largely Gnostic, at the very least in terms of practical effect.

While it goes further back than this, I attribute much of it to pre-trib dispensationalism (Jesus is coming back to rapture us away to heaven in a lifeboat while the earth goes through a great tribulation) that plagued the church in the 80's and 90's in America. Turns out this is junk theology that the vast majority of Christians throughout church history would have laughed at while they struck you with canes for believing it. If you are prone to this line of thinking, go read He Shall Have Dominion by Kenneth Gentry and learn about Post-Millenialism.

Eschatology matters more than most Christians believe. Once you take the "Post-Mill Pill" suddenly you realize that the Kingdom of God is brought to earth so that God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven. The End doesn't come until Christ, while reigning in Heaven, delivers the kingdom to the Father after destroying all opposition and the LASTenemy to be defeated is death (1 Corinthians 15:26). This means the the Great Commission given to the Church to disciple nations and teach them (that is the nations) to obey his every command is not just something to keep us busy until Jesus fills the life-boats up: HE ACTUALLY MEANS FOR THE CHURCH TO ACCOMPLISH IT!!

Your Part To Play

Simply put, if you're a disciple of Jesus, a Christian, you're called to take dominion in the name of Christ, over everything He gives you, and to make it obedient to Him. This means your self, your wife, your kids, and your resources are all part of an outpost of the Kingdom that you have been placed in charge of. Your mission? Like any unit in an advancing army, your mission is to take more ground for your King. Don't worry though, even the gates of hell won't long stand in your way.

So yes, your mission can (and in my less-than-humble opinion) SHOULD include getting a hot wife, knocking her up repeatedly, teaching those kids to obey the lord, gather resources, and building a fiefdom of the Kingdom. You won't be able to do this well today with normie-tier programming and unbiblical enlightenment-derived liberal presuppositions.

Read radical books. If they've been banned at some point, you're probably onto something dangerous to the modern system that wants you to eat the bugs and own nothing.

Challenging your political, theological, and philosophical paradigm. There is such richness to be found by exploring alternative understandings. Your hardware will never out perform your software. As you upgrade your thinking and define your place in the mission of the Church it is vital that you actually live it out and put what you learn into practice.

Finally, for the love of all things decent, go freaking lift.

No excuses.