Fields after realising that there won't be a Pomak Caliphate anytime soon

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I recently watched a speech on Yukio Mishima by Jonathan Bowden, and he made a really good observation on Japanese society that made me reflect on my own experience as a westerner; What we often see as depravity or sexual perversion, they tend to view less as a moral failing and more as a kind of pressure valve, a way to release pent-up frustration and anger without disrupting the broader social order, which remains deeply hierarchical and tightly structured, even today. Within that framework, certain taboos or perversions are tolerated and encouraged as necessary counterbalance to social rigidity, a "meaningful asymmetry" as Bowden calls it.

In contrast, we in the West are more inclined to externalize our frustrations, to act them out in the world. We’re less disciplined, less contained. In some sense, that makes us more masculine, more virulent. The Japanese worldview on this has always leaned toward the feminine: very inwards, fearfully restrained, and rooted in maintaining constant harmony and avoiding chaos within the society even if that means sacrificing their own spiritual well being. This dynamic isn’t new, it stretches back to the days of the Shogunate and Imperial Japan, where such balance was kept through an honor based system, warfare, and ritualized, violent death. They once had violent outlets. Now they don’t, and so the tension bleeds into the culture, now more than ever.

But we’re not so different, In the West, too, the more we’re prevented from externalizing this anger, whether through war, conquest, or conflict, the more it spills sideways into art, culture, and private life. Depravity becomes a mirror of repression in modern, liberal democratic societies. It's not an exact parallel, but the pressure builds just the same, here and elsewhere.

I think there's a good point to be made with Eastern Europe, especially in the Balkans. That region has been steeped in rage and repressed anger that, not so long ago, erupted through ethnic conflict and war. It wasn't a healthier outlet, but it was an outlet. Now, with those channels closed, the tension lingers which could very well be a reason for their apparent permanent decadent and aberrant behavior, though that may be less of a moral collapse and more of a psychic overflow. And unlike the West, they’ve had a harder time adapting, partly due to their blood.

Gentleness and empathy are important, but how are we supposed to be gentle and empathetic when we’re drowning in internalized anger? That rage doesn’t just disappear, it bleeds into culture, and it eats us from the inside out. We turn on ourselves, we turn on each other. We hate ourselves and so we hate eachother. We self-annihilate constantly and then pass it off as kindness. It’s phony!

The Confucian, Christian or Buddhist would say "No, let me extinguish this evil, sinful wrath within my heart", The more Nietzschean or Faustian character would go "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!" and then rape you, but after that he might as well be the greatest guy you've ever met, would be an effeminate outlet, but an outlet nevertheless.

The Confucian, Buddhist and Christian would just watch yt shorts until the feeling's gone, then be the most sexually perverted, depraved and shittiest guy ever.

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