Christian Deconstruction

Is it bad to train people to break the culture that they currently inhabit?

That is, to deeply deconstruct and criticize their host culture's language, power dynamics, assumptions, framings, expectations, and procedures for life, and to propose new ones instead.

Could be risky. If they remold it to their own desires and knowledge, and they are bad and ignorant people, well, we're left with a worse culture that what we started with.

As an individualist, I think it's generally good to teach deconstruction. It force’s people more in the driver’s seat and forces them to actually think when everything in the society is conditioning them not to use their brain for anything. The innocent and shrewd will use it to their advantage. The polluted and foolish will use it to their own destruction. And they already have been using it to their destruction of our mainstream for generations now, so there's no point in trying to conserve the mainstream as is.

Still, as good people exit the mainstream, the mainstream gets worse. Leave the schools? The schools get worse. Leave science? Science gets worse. Leave politics? Politics gets worse.

This is why dominion is a necessity. You cannot just secret yourself away to a walled garden forever, even if they are crucial in certain seasons of life.

You cannot retreat to a private epistemic daydream. You cannot retreat to a homestead. There must be a public and civic frame of mind that we can share to have community and the goods of life in the city. This is an essential part of what it means to be a real person who lives in the real world and cares for other real people. But the terms on which that is done need to be aggressively negotiated.

So, you might say, we need not just a deconstructionism, but a kind of Reconstructionism.

This requires creativity in thought and practice - creative theology and philosophy. Naturally, this leads to cults. I can only hope my cult will develop a rich tradition of cosmopolitanism, reasoning, and truth, in distinction to the increasingly superstitious, narrow-minded, and philistinic lib-normie. To prevent being normed into that way ourselves, we will have to aggressively and creatively puncture the frames of thought our current cultural industries shepherd us with.

Nuke the universities. Nuke Hollywood. If we can't do that in real life, we can first do that in the minecraft of our own hearts.

In a dying culture, only the cults most blessed by God will survive.