Round about 1950, morality became redundant. With the inevitable time lag effect that limited human intelligence creates, the masses and their ruling elites needed more than a decade for the penny to drop. When it did, the sixties and subsequent decades saw a moral free-for-all - divorce, contraception, buggery, porn, homosexuality, transgenderism, drugs, you name it...
Despite such a groundbreaking event taking place, nobody bothered to find out the reason or come up with a convincing explanation. Instead, our brightest and best came up with the following paltry list:
- It was because of the Beatles (especially John)
- It woz redbrick universities wot did it
- Erm...the pill
- Twiggy
Yes, most explanations ran along these or similar lines, with occasional references to plummeting church attendances. However, now I can reveal the real and only reason - OIL!
As the black, toxic filth poured from the ground and into our cars and factories, a corresponding wave of moral filth surged through our society, like a tsunami of poison.
Why? Because the concentration of energy in oil made everything -- business, basic survival, getting laid, raising sprogs on welfare, growing old without children, you name it, a piece of piss. This meant that people in the affluent West no longer needed to have any kind of discipline, self-control, or morality to flourish.
Thankfully, those days are over. Thanks to the Greenies and the “Just Stop Oil” fundamentalists, we are turning our back on this distinctly Faustian hydrocarbon and instead will depend on breaks in the cloud and puffs of wind to power our energy-hungry society.
Even America will ultimately get driven down this road.
As the role of oil diminishes, so the tendency to morality in our society will creep back in. Ultimately, I predict a vast increase in church attendance, cold showers, heterosexuality, monogamy, and relatively sensible clothing.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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