Ethical Sadism: An Artistic Movement Against Liberalism

How Ethical Sadism can be used to disrupt liberalism and free our desires

Marquis de Sade is a controversial writer, no doubt. He’s been accused of criminal activity, while also being a mafia proponent for the state, exactly like what Jeffery Epstein does. Sade can have wild and irrational assumptions that the stupid get what they want and need public brothels to control their power-mongering. But is this true? As if our sexual desires cannot be controlled, and true freedom is treating people like edible products, ready to be thrown away and forgotten about once they are used? Perhaps Sade was acting upon a rational urge, but under a system that was deemed irrational by our standards.

The term “ethical sadism” has been around since 2010. In a blog post of the same name by Uniquely Libby, the ethical sadist can only act upon his whims, if he has a “willing” participant. Or, one must have “consent” to do the depraved. Unfortunately, this is what Armin Meiwes pleaded in court after he committed his crime. Therefore, there is something wrong with the liberal binary concept of “consent,” and is rather a green-lit semantic trap around justice. The “ethical” does not constitute “consent.” A true sadist would never ask for “consent” as desire never needs permission.

So what is “ethical” about a sadist, if there is no “consent” in this equation?

To put it bluntly, what is “ethical,” has to do with being virtuous. I wouldn’t call it a “virtuous sadist” either, as that assumes the sadist is only acting upon a politically correct virtue-signaling game. To be virtuous is to celebrate morality, ethics, imagination, freedom, liberty, and desire, as all traits of the manifestation of being a sadist. Sadism is not a pro-liberal stance to be far-left, as that would only equate to a “woke” police state that can’t act upon their true desires and solely relies on a technological welfare state to give them everything in their safe prison cell.

I’m not assuming that all self-proclaimed sadists should become “ethical” either, and start shaming other sadists for not following the moral high ground. That’s because the word “sadism” takes upon an entirely new meaning when it becomes ethical. Sadism is not the simple-minded pleasure of being irrational or causing evil. That’s the misconception. It’s far from it. Ethical sadism is about letting desire become the moral priority of artistic action and through the act of an open imagination that is against order.

Ethical sadism is against those who shame desire as icky, as evil, or as irrational. Because desire is neither of those things. Desire is ethical. There is no such thing as a “wrong thought” for a sadist.

If sadism assumes pleasure is caused only by pain, ethical sadism is about obtaining pleasure through anti-liberalism and offending the politically correct state and the so-called citizen of liberalism. An ethical sadism can create collage art, or write prose around a perverted imagination, where the pain is being inflicted upon the enemy. Ethical sadism no longer becomes evil, but flirts with evil as a desire to destroy what tries to destroy them. It is related to the shame empowerment that Christians tend to feel pride in.

In return, “ethical masochism” is about receiving pleasure from the pain that liberalism damages us with. If they want to draw us as “racist nazi genocidal maniacs,” so be it. An ethical sadist can embrace that power to overcome the shame that liberalism tries to inflict upon those out of line.

I am aware that there are normal liberals who think “sadism” is some kind of VampireFreaks social club, like being a goth or “Satanist,” but this is an incredible misconception, and I would call these “fake sadists” in the same category as “the synthetic left,” or, a left-wing that advocates liberalism and the American state, and downplays actual-existing socialist states.

It becomes ethical when we play the game they want to project onto us. We become the boogeymen that haunts them, as they fabricate evidence around our pranking. We must embrace this masochism to an extent that it becomes empowering, simply because none of it is true, and yet, we only make it true to insult the gaslighter.

The difference between sadism and ethical sadism is that the ethical is rational. A “fetish” is the assumption that a desire is irrational. We are ethical because we know what we want, and go to our lengths to think the forbidden. And this is where we drift away from the irrationalism of Sade’s existence. We take his principles and practices and apply them as a new form of creativity and expression.

In Ramsey Campbell’s short story, Cold Print, a monster by the name of Y'golonac eats a reader who dares to read forbidden and perverse literature. The literature in question? Works that are close by Hubert Selby Jr. and Brain Aldiss. If books near Selby and Aldiss stir much controversy, we have nothing to fear when reading Sade. In the tradition of Feral House, Nine-Banded Books, and Amphetamine Sulphate, these publishing labels cater to transgressive punk to avant-garde literature specializing in the “verboten.” Namely, and in the tradition of Sade, creative writing and imagination, whatever perverse and decadent form it takes, attacks liberalism head-on. It becomes a contest on “whoever is the most transgressive and offensive.” This, I believe, is all a manifestation of “avant-garde hate.” “Hate” in this context, is used as an artistic, transgressive expression. But it is the philosophy of ethical sadism that can put avant-garde hate into practice.

The ethical sadist is not such much focused on “hatred” as the priority. This is another misconception. The ethical sadist puts desires first over any feeling of hatred. If hatred was a priority, then “avant-garde hate” would be first over ethical sadism. But if desire is dictated first, even if it takes the form of evil, then it’s a practice of ethical sadism.

Writing transgressive, perverted, offensive, and even erotic literature, is ethical sadism. Desire is the priority. Like in the tradition of chaos magick, one must believe it, and it will come true. If you believe in something bad happening, or wanting to harm another, it shall be expressed through art. Hatred is an illusion. Ethical sadism is about applying desire through this practice.

While criminals commit an unlawful act, the ethical sadist restrains from the act, and expresses their sadism, or “perverted desires,” in a lawful way. Because the root of sadism is letting desires run wild and be free, the principle of ethics can let our desires be finally heard. So much of the prejudice against the pervert is based upon an irrational act, when in reality, our desires, and acting upon them openly, is rational, sincere, and beautiful. Another criminal dubbed as a “sadist” only ruins the practice of ethical sadism.

The ethical sadist also takes a cue from Anton LaVey’s Satanism, as Satanism was an early experiment of popular sadism. Instead of demon worship, however, the ethical sadist worships desires and lets desires run free without any liberal or politically correct restraint. Ethical sadism departs from Satanism.

In essence, the ethical sadist takes Max Stirner’s egoism to a whole new level of radicalism, where instead of adapting Ayn Rand’s libertarianism, the ethical sadist destroys libertarianism itself, as desire cannot accept “the non-aggressive pact” or any rule of “property.” Ethical sadism also departs from libertarianism, as libertarianism is nothing more than an isolated version of liberalism.

The ethical sadist is an intellectual. His desires are as important as his identity. In a way, most actors and actresses in the adult industry, or of pornography, are to some degree, all “ethical sadists.” Pornography can express true ethical sadism as a profession, and artistic expression is not only a performance but an act of desire, the greatest virtue of all.

The ethical sadist believes that beauty is letting all possible thoughts and desires have freedom of expression. It isn’t the advocation of liberalism, but the destruction of it. We understand and discover our inner selves if we apply Sade to our artistic expression. The ethical sadist is not inverting Jean-Jacques Rousseau or causing evil, but tapping into a self-dialogue about our desires, and writing about what we want, regardless of what the idiotic public and smug liberal elite think of us. We are ethical when we create the bogeyman in their head, and we are ethical when we put out art that challenges their morality. Because the ethical sadist puts any outrageous desire above all political priorities.

Ethical sadism, especially in the arts, will be at the forefront against liberalism in the future. It’s a matter of whether we accept sadism as an ethical practice, and align it with virtue. Until we realize there is nothing wrong with having desires and using them in the arts to express our deepest and repressed wills, we can have the future society and culture, we want.

…The next article you should read is “What is Eclecticism?” Please click on this link to read it.

-pe

8-1-2023