This past week, The Lotus Eaters cut a video about the recent Warhammer 40,000 release: The Horus Heresy. In the rulebook, it is laid out in no uncertain terms that the Adeptus Astartes--the Space Marines--must be male because the biological augmentation technology requires male-exclusive hormones and the male-specific biology that stems from those hormones in order to work. Therefore, there are no female Marines and there cannot ever be any.
This went over as expected from the grunt-level Thralls of Empire infesting Western media and popular culture, including hobby culture. Arch, formerly Arch Warhammer, had a good video about this and I'll put it here before going on to the Lotus Eaters video.
Arch approaches the real issue driving this freakout, but the Lotus Eaters actually capture it directly: it's religious.
The psychology driving the Death Cult and thus what they chose to attack, how they attack it, and what they do when they succeed are entirely the psychology of a fanatical religion bent on annilation of all opposition.
- Identify the enemy's icons and idols, as they are the focus of worship.
- Attack those targets without mercy until success or death is achieved.
- Defile their sanctums, deface their icons, destroy their idols and thus discredit their religion and destroy their worship.
- Humiliate all that remain until they either convert or die; chase any who escape until they are run down and destroyed.
Readers will want to refernce my post from 2017 about The Last Jedi as an example of the latter two points in action. This, I put to you, is what explains all of this SJW Death Cult insanity across the West.
I know for many of you this is not only not a new idea, but you've already accepted the premise. I am merely pointing out that we're finally getting confirmation from Cultists' own Revealed Preferences and "mask off" moments that this is indeed the truth.
For those of you still unsure, I ask you to look at the behavior of everything they say and do--including differences between what is said and what is done--and watch for this pattern to emerge. The denigation of the enemy religion's heroes, the inversion of the enemy religion's ethos and dogma, the revision of the enemy's mythology to portay them as weak and inferior to the Death Cult's triumphant and inevitable victory (as shown by their self-insert characters), and more are all readily apparent in what the Death Cult steals or conquers.
This is not a problem that can be resolved with Realpolitick. There is no negotiation, no rational actors, no good faith compromises; the enemy's words and deeds make it clear that this is neither desired nor practical. There is no political solution because this a problem that comes from above the political plane, even above the cultural plane; it is a problem of religion and therefore it must be addressed as a conflict--a civilizational and existential conflict--between mutually incompatible and therefore hostile faiths.
Which brings it back to 40K.
The reason for why 40K is resisting as well as it is stems from the fact that calling them heretics, Chaos Cultists, and traitors are actually effective Rhetorical attacks. All of those 40K memes praising the God-Emperor and insulting the enemies of the Imperium are tapping into that spiritual energy, albeit incidentially so, and just like painting Donald Trump as the God-Emperor freaked the Cult out so does comparing the Cult to their fictional counterparts in Chaos, the Genestealers, and (as they see themselves) the Tau.
So don't let up- and by all means direct those Rhetorical attacks at Games Workshop themselves when they start talking that heresy. Gatekeeping is good, and memeing them into screeching fits or worse is a lot of fun, but this points to something much, much bigger.
Hit them on Religious Grounds ACROSS THE BOARD!
They fear God more than anything or anyone else. Those, and that, which stands fast in Him draw their ire but also gain His strength. Just look at what Roe being overturned did as proof of that. Therefore I leave you with another enduring 40K meme.
Empire falls.
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