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The Loudest Moralists Tend to Be the Quietest Degenerates How shame-based cultures promote depravity

What do pedophile priests and Muslim sexual deviants have in common? How is it that those who presume to lecture us the most about decency tend to be the sickest degenerates? **Despicable moralists** Witness the hypocritical moralists, those with a presumed superiority in their pretentious piousness, who **create taboos for others to uphold and for themselves to break**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-scourge-of-moralism Moralists foam at the mouth as they promote systemic shaming, which, in their minds, should somehow be the basis of civil society… as if any superficial performance of “virtue” driven by the fear of shaming bore any meaning at all. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-shaming-fallacy-part-1 Truly virtuous societies adopt virtue voluntarily without the threat of shame or violence. Those who claim that freedom would lead us to degeneracy basically confess their own degenerate inclinations, admitting that the bad is stronger than the good (for them at least). Either they don’t even know what they’re talking about, or **they seek to generate taboos for themselves, the breaking of which is their twisted delight**. Imagine: those announcing themselves to be the most pious tend to be the most ***depraved***, precisely *because* they are ***deprived***. **Twisted desires** Shaming is sexualised through twisted perversion: it creates taboos whose violation carries a shock factor, a kinky delight for those twisted under emotional suppression. As Carl Jung noted, “*What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size*.” This is why **the most morally oppressive and emotionally repressive cultures tend to be the most degenerate**. Take a trip to Japan or the Middle East, and then let’s talk. Or see how the most flamboyant degenerates come from households of immense religious or cultural oppression. The fact that freer societies are open about degeneracy doesn’t mean that there is more degeneracy there. Degeneracy is simply open for everyone to see, unlike societies that hide it well. In freer societies, not being a degenerate is more meaningful, since you can be a degenerate without social ostracisation, yet you still choose to reject it. **In shame-based oppressive societies, appearing not to be a degenerate has no meaning or worth — for all we know, you could be anything the second you step off the plane in another country**. Having lived in Muslim-majority countries where public decency is very much a thing (at least on the surface), I can say it was interesting to observe Muslim women board the plane fully covered… and then by the end of the flight, the same women exited the plane in revealing clothing, their hair, cleavage, and thongs provocatively visible — as long as they wear those large sunglasses to keep their face protected from shaming. Oh? You pretend you didn’t know that? Remember the Orlando club shooting, a gay Muslim who couldn’t accept his nature? Shaming caused that. Or what about the Afghan gay “bacha bazi” phenomenon of males turning homosexual and molesting boys just because they are denied access to women? Or the degenerate pornography searches from otherwise “puritan” Muslim societies, where **the deprived become depraved** precisely *because* suppression leads to twisting, and shaming leads to taboos and the kink of shock value? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_nightclub_shooting https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1968959360505188466 https://wikiislam.github.io/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_-_Pornography.html

**Degenerates need to be shamed; otherwise, their vice loses its perverted hedonistic pleasure**. The more a society accepts a vice, the less appealing it is to perverts. Have you ever wondered *why gay pride parades keep getting more and more provocative*? **The more a society accepts homosexuality, the less of a taboo it becomes, and the less appealing it is to those twisted under mountains of shaming, shaming which they have sexualised**. So, to reclaim their taboos, they keep pushing the envelope, provoking shame, desperately begging us to shame them with their deliberately shameful public acts. It’s not about gays holding hands anymore. Now it must be gimp suits, public nudity, and pedophilia to keep claiming the taboo, and the shock factor that comes with it. They need to keep possessing the taboo, the sexualised shame. This is why I believe that those who foam at the mouth, promoting shame as a way to somehow control the shameless, aren’t really honest with us. Shaming degenerates is pouring fuel into a forest fire. They *need* shame — they’ve **internalised shame** from a lifetime of toxic shaming, so now **they identify with shame**, and **shaming validates their identity**. **Shaming cannot disincentivise them from their behaviours — it accomplishes the exact opposite**. ***Shaming validates the identities of those who are shame-based. It thus incentivises them to keep expressing shameful behaviours.*** I am convinced that the pretentious moralists, the shamers, those who promote shaming, are, in fact, **degenerates in denial** or in hiding. They need to promote shaming to derive more pleasure from their sick, twisted, taboo-breaking hedonism, their kinky shock factor, their **sexualised shame**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-scourge-of-moralism https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-tomboy-debate-samirah-vs-hannah **What is shame, anyway?** In my series ‘The shaming fallacy’, I made an exhaustive argument about why civilised and virtuous societies cannot be based on shame, or any threats, for that matter. Shaming… what a lowly thing to base your culture on? As if virtue were not incentive enough by itself, as if virtue feared vice. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-shaming-fallacy-part-2 Shame is hypocrisy. **Any “good” that comes out of the fear of shame is not meaningful, nor honest, nor sustainable**. Shame is the feeling of humiliation from being scorned and ridiculed by others, whether they are objectively right to do so or not. This is what the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ fable is about: *how an entire society can be intellectually and morally wrong (knowingly), and how they can all turn to ridicule and shame a pure child (of all people) for the* ***virtue of speaking truth to power***. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/authority-is-a-bluff When you are shame-based, you feel shamed whether you did something right or wrong. It’s meaningless, and it is used to manipulate you.

Any performance of piety, virtue, and morality driven by the threat of shame is just that: a pretentious performance only when others are looking, and nothing more. This makes all appearances of virtue meaningless, since they come from the wrong place, that of hypocrisy. Not only that, but being forced through the threat of shaming to “apply” a certain moral framework cultivates **underlying resentment against that moral framework**. **Sources:** Shame-culture and Guilt-culture https://www.doceo.co.uk/background/shame_guilt.htm Understanding Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures https://honorshame.com/understanding-guilt-shame-fear-cultures/ The Data on Global Culture Types https://honorshame.com/data-global-culture-types/ Guilt-Shame-Fear Spectrum of Cultures https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/32983 Guilt–shame–fear spectrum of cultures (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fear_spectrum_of_cultures The origins of war in child abuse by Lloyd DeMause https://psychohistory.com/books/the-origins-of-war-in-child-abuse/ Shaming Is An Aggressive Act - Shaming can guide us toward social norms or impair our self-worth https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/overcoming-destructive-anger/202301/shaming-is-an-aggressive-act **Why shame becomes erotic and sexualised** Perverts have a lust for the forbidden, even if that forbidden is bad for them. The law of scarcity dictates that, all things remaining the same, that which is perceived to be scarce will be perceived to be more valuable, even if what is scarce is objectively harmful. The prohibition era taught us everything we needed to know about this. The deliberately unending “war on drugs” keeps teaching us this same lesson, yet we still don’t get it. Perverts and degenerates (almost always shame-based as they are) desire more of whatever they think is forbidden, even if what is forbidden is worthless or detrimental to them. This is why pathological gamblers will be attracted to underground, unlicensed poker rooms, even though they could easily play the same game at a proper casino. This is why deviants will cheat on their spouses with objectively less attractive people, not for the novelty of it, but for the excitement of surrendering to sin, the **delight of breaking a taboo**, and of deriving twisted pleasure from doing something wrong and shameful.

Deviants need to know that what they’re doing is wrong and shameful. Take away the shame from it, and you take away their pleasure. This is why they insist on promoting shame. This is why the **shamers are likely deviants themselves**. **What sexualises shame:** **Taboo amplifies desire** in toxically shame-based individuals, those who have been shamed so much that they have internalised, and thus identify with, shame. What is forbidden becomes fascinating, an exotic attraction, a delightful game of rule-breaking pleasure. Shame adds emotional weight to shameful sexuality, making such shame-bound acts more sensually charged for those who are shame-based. There is also the aspect of **power dynamics in sexualised shame**. Since shame is associated with feelings of vulnerability, submission, or exposure, shame can then become eroticised in fantasy, especially in females whose sexuality is triggered by willing surrender. Societies that moralise sexuality tend to produce individuals who eroticise shame as a way of reclaiming agency or exploring identity when cultural shame-based conditioning suffocates them enough. In their “breaking free” from **cultural oppression**, it is logical to feel attracted to the forbidden, that which is punished by the worst punishment: ostracism through shame. **Sources:** The Psychology of Shame - Jungian Perspective by Joanna Zbroniec https://www.mind-mastery.com/blog/the-psychology-of-shame-jungian-perspective Jung’s Approach to Sexual Issues by Dr. Ed Santana https://www.dredsantana.com/cg-jung-and-sexuality Shame by James M. Shultz, M.D., Jungian analyst https://jungpage.org/learn/articles/analytical-psychology/776-shame **Conclusion** **Do not confuse toxic shame with healthy modesty**. Healthy people cannot be manipulated by shame, but they do have their internally sourced healthy modesty. Shame-based deviants appear to be shameless, but in fact, they are driven by shame but lack healthy modesty. Degeneracy is the result of relentless toxic shaming, shaming that was internalised, pressurised, twisted, and erupted into taboo-breaking shock value. Degenerates have been shamed so much that they now get a kick out of provoking shame, even as a reaction of defiance. **Shaming is what makes the shameless**. I’m not saying you should go out of your way to celebrate degeneracy. Just don’t go out of your way to shame. It’s a false dichotomy to suggest that, if you don’t vehemently oppose something, then you must automatically promote it. Instead, be neutral. Accept deviancy as a reality, as a force of nature — it is what it is. You can still show your disapproval, not with aggressive psychological abuse (shaming), but instead with **passive avoidance and disassociation**. Degenerate people tend to be private until you take the shame away from them. If you do, if you accept their degeneracy as something normal, they don’t like it. You steal their taboo. So they will act out to provoke you, to provoke shame. You will never take away deviancy or evil from the world. Humbly accept this fact and don’t think of yourself as important enough to amend the world to your standards. It’s interesting to note that the Ancient Hellenic name for “male homosexual” is ‘kinaidos’, with an etymology that reveals insight: “*he who moves (in this context ‘provokes’) public shame*”. https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82

Just like any form of prohibition, increasing demand for what is prohibited, shaming generates more desire for shamed behaviour. This makes a vicious cycle of shame — shaming and shamefulness. ***Shaming makes shame-worthy societies.*** **Objection: “But what about the woke!?”** Despicable moralists will (predictably) take the phenomenon of wokeism, the West’s promotion of indecency, as an argument for shaming. They claim that degeneracy is being shoved down our throats due to this proliferation. In their minds, this lifting of the stigma of shame from degenerate behaviours somehow promotes these behaviours — the same retarded argument imagining that what you prohibit will magically disappear, when reality proves the opposite. This straw man and association fallacy is objectively wrong on many levels, just like the argument for the prohibition of alcohol, drugs, and every other victimless “crime”. First off, it is a good thing that finally the degenerates feel free to expose themselves so that you know who they are. Sure, your children shouldn’t have to be exposed to them, but your obedience to your government is the real problem here — the state that deliberately promotes degeneracy and brainwashes your children this way through the schooling system you willingly pay for. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/how-school-damaged-your-mental-health-f86 Second, these moralists assume that in cultures where such degenerate behaviour is still shamed and even illegal, such behaviours don’t occur, or that, in the West’s past, such behaviours never manifested. Nonsense. This is survivorship bias: they assume that what they don’t see isn’t there just because they can’t see it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Third, wokeism is objectively a state-funded phenomenon. There is nothing natural or organic about it. Your deluded need for government is the problem here, an entity that has every incentive to subvert your society so that it stays in power. https://sotiris.substack.com/t/voluntaryism Fourth, the more you try to shame the shameless, **the more you validate their shame-based identity, and the more you reward their shameless behaviours**. Shaming is what made them shame-based in the first place. Again, *you* are the problem here.

**Key takeaway** Be very skeptical of those promoting shame as somehow the basis for their morality. Imagine how weak the moral standing of a society is when it is based on the threat of public ridicule… Uncivilised and backward… Not only does that not promote internally based virtue, but it creates taboos and resentment that are antithetical to virtue. Moralists who keep promoting shaming are evil **degenerates who wish to amplify the shame shock value of breaking their taboo of choice**, their **lust for the forbidden**. Through their shaming, they in essence conduct **self-shaming**, fantasising that their taboo is even more forbidden than it actually is… This is how they get their kicks, their kinks satisfied. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-scourge-of-moralism **Recommended reading:** Silently Seduced by Dr. Kenneth M. Adams https://www.amazon.com/Silently-Seduced-Parents-Children-Partners/dp/0757315879 The Family by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Bradshaw-Family-Creating-Solid-Self-Esteem/dp/1558744274 Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Shame-Binds-Recovery-Classics/dp/0757303234 Homecoming by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Homecoming-Reclaiming-Championing-Inner-Child/dp/0553353896