The Confused Demonology of Modernity
The Confused Demonology of Modernity
"Modernity cannot escape religion."
Perhaps the most prescient quote by a living philosopher uttered to date, thrown to the wolves of The Bird App—as the best quotes are these days—accurately celebrated but perhaps not given the development it fully deserved, this quote characterizes the essence of modernity.
“The Ancients would have understood all modern epistemology as confused demonology, and of course they would be right.”
—@Outsideness, Dr. Nick Land
It was more than a good Tweet or good Xeet or whatever we’re calling them these days. This was perhaps the shortest summary of the greatest philosophical ailment of modernity written so far. If you wanted to characterize all of modernity, the postmodern drive or unction, or “Wokeism” as something, the phrase “confused demonology” hits the nail on the head. It reaches back across “strange eons” and grasps at ancient allegories that remain embedded in the universal human subconsciousness.
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
—H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
If I asked a random person today what modern demonology looked like, they would perhaps scoff on the basis of their progressive virtues. On examining their secular worldview and modern values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, on pondering key philosophical concepts like intersectionality and marginalization through their secular humanist lens, they would not at all label their beliefs as “confused demonology” or modern occultism. It would never occur to them to see themselves and their beliefs as an incarnation of older, more accursed belief systems.
They would never make a comparison of like import and would not be able to see the connection between their worship of metrics, analytics, policy libraries, modern ethics, quotas, excel spreadsheets, and aggregation of data (in pivot tables) as today’s manifestation of the occult, although it is. From the “new” progressive ideologies to the math, science, and computing that we use to predict and prophesy the future, it’s not something new, it’s old, very old. From antiquity until now, the human heart has looked towards the signs, hoping to interpret their meaning.
“reality requires an interpretation” because humans desire to interpret reality.
Trusting in analytics and spreadsheets is a kind of unexpected act of divination and sorcery that has developed within the “secular” world. The modern epistemological authorities of entertainment, academia, and the news media read the data as today’s signs and make predictions based upon their interpretation. These authorities decide what counts as a sign and then determine the meaning of these signs, making their forecasts on the world stage through many different media apparatuses. They are oracles, and the spreadsheets are their stars; the trends in their metrics are cosmological events found in rows upon rows of aggregated data which are interpreted to predict the future.
The modern sorcerer is sworn to prophesy good fortunes for the regime. The regime will not allow anything less. “We will come to a soft landing,” says the false prophets over the economy. They are slaves to a modern numerology, and their goal is to deliver a “true word” as synthesized from their analytics. What they actually do is increase the fog in this information fog of war by forcing an ill-fitted interpretation to the meaning of the streams of data that they have collected. They desire to will the future to produce a particular outcome by speaking forth their twisted prophesies for the future.
The sign-readers of today (found all across media) are false prophets and false priests, prophesying against the Word of God, preaching a false gospel. They instead interpret in favor of the lusts of the flesh and the perversions which have overtaken them—their demons, if you will. The media are the mouths of false gods and Legion, yet many Christians believe their interpretations as if they are as fundamentally true as the Word of God. Reflect on the entirety of 2 Peter chapter 2, but here are some key verses:
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
— 2 Peter 2:1-2, 18-19 KJV, emphasis added
Living by the forecasts of the prophets of Baal in media, from global economics to personal finance and from their worldly understandings of “love” to personal romance, is the equivalent of living by laws of a foreign occult faith. The modern incarnation of the occult pilots your life in accordance with its “confused demonology” to deliver you to the same outcomes as the faithless that surround you. By listening to their voices, you are driven by their witchcraft and divination, yielding a unfulfilled and unsatisfying life. Why subject yourself to curses through yielding to media forecasts rather than the blessings lighting upon you on account of your faith in the Word of God over your life? Live by the Word of God and nothing else so that the goodness of God is permitted to rain down upon you.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
The Ancients would look at your spreadsheet scrying, your fancy report-generating software rituals, your stand-up liturgies, and your company values incantations as some sort of abomination. The lifeless acts of the business world fused with the lulling ebbs and flows of consumerism are the signs of a death cult in operation, not an advanced civilization. An Aztec priest in the middle of cutting some poor soul’s heart out to appease the Sun god would be horrified by the methodology of your rituals were you to describe them to him. He would likely think that he is much better off sticking with the traditional method of blood sacrifices. The daily seances of modernity would be too difficult for him to comprehend.
Our obsession with collecting data and governing based on reading its trends through our CRM and content management systems, our social systems and programs, our policy and ethics libraries, and our commitments to govern from perverse incentives based upon secular humanism would cause this priest to back away as he realizes that your commitment to your religion is far beyond anything he has ever participated in. It’s not that the ancients could not do what we do today. It’s that they would never think to do it our way, to conduct occult rituals in such a lifeless, sterile fashion. If you took an ancient mind and introduced it to our methods, his conclusion would by, “why even do all this crap to begin with?”
If your goal is to worship mammon, why not do it the easy way and just sacrifice your first born, something normal to ancient pagan worship. Why mask it in the haze of secular rationality? Why put on this charade of being advanced, logical, progressive, and modern to make it seem like your demon doctrines are reasonable and rational, humanist conclusions?
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will [a]fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
Just admit that abortion is child sacrifice, just admit that the media are false prophets, and just admit that modern academia are false priests, wouldn’t that be easier? All this hubris about ethics, all this hubbub and chattering about policy, standards, and law when the conclusions are always to sacrifice the living to the death cult of modernity.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
So many rituals in modernity have become mundane to us, almost to the point where we don’t see our reliance on these things as religious, though we are constantly looking for signs in this constant flow of content and information; all for the purposes of trying to anticipate what will happen in the future. “Will my stocks go up this year?” one says as they look for signs that confirm their desired outcome in charts and reports from several different sources. Will good fortune strike me by giving back to marginalized communities? a wealthy donor to BLM says to herself as she makes out a check to the organization.
To label “religion” as a word as if it could just be summed up and packaged away, as if it isn’t all-encompassing to the very definition of humanity, there is no separation between living as a human being and participating in religious practice. The act of conscious life is religious by default, no matter if we change the labels and the words that we use to describe the act. Rituals, liturgies, and sacrifices continue on the altars of contemporary policy, ethics, and law. Precepts founded on modern philosophical concepts such as equity, diversity, inclusion, intersectionality, racial grievances, feminism, and social justice activism are the frameworks of this new pagan religion overtaking our Babylon.
Modernity cannot escape religion; instead of a clearly laid out belief system, it produces this estranged demonology as a substitute for an admission of faith. Whether its in politics, the business world, or in education or medicine, this belief system emerges as an ancient religion clothed in humanist, “woke” garb.
Western civilization cannot escape faith.
Most have noticed the growth of this religion, but many Christians participate in it unconsciously, thinking that these concepts are somehow divorced from faith. Nay. They are the essence of a faith that our incarnation of Babylon has imbibed. Because of this, many Christians are mixing their pure Faith in Christ with this filth and believing that it is justified, righteous, and true. I wish it were just “progressive” Christians, but it’s not. Many Christians who would see themselves as being conservative or moderate agree with the grievance religion that has emerged in our Babylon.
They perhaps think that the alphabet people (gay, trans, etc.) issues are too far, but they see racial and sex/gender grievances as legitimate. They seek to make up for a past that our society has already repented for (by putting protections into law for these classes) that many of them never actively participated in themselves.
If I screamed at these Christians about their past, present, and future personal sins saying, “God will never forgive you!” They would correctly reply back, “Jesus Christ died on the Cross and rose from the dead to wash away my sins, so I am already forgiven!” But if I were to scream at them about collective sins of racism or sex discrimination (if they can be called sins—perhaps more on this in the future) saying that they could never be forgiven, they begin to cower and shrivel up and say, “well…we still need progress in some areas” on these “collective sins” that they themselves have either repented for or never even participated in.
Somehow, these Christians understand that their sins are washed away personally, but they are confused about how their sins are washed away collectively (generational iniquity as discussed in the Bible is an accounting of collective sins—in case you were under the impression that collective sins are not accounted for in the Bible). The same mechanism that frees you from your personal sins frees you from collective sins. If you don’t believe in collective sins, then you should never apologize for committing them. If you do believe in such a thing as generational iniquity, then you should understand that the blood of Jesus frees you from those in the same way as it frees you from personal sins.
To put it plainly, if a Christian is accused of participating in something labeled as a collective sin, your answer should NEVER be to confess guilt, but to declare that “it’s all under the blood.”
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.