Since it's overdue and I assume most people here just look bewildered when asked what they mean by "degenerate".
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Theory of Degeneracy
Indispensable presupposition
A fully functional sense for delayed gratification in connection with the economic concept "time preference" is the basis for this theory:
High time preference (pleasure doesn't last long): degenerate
Low time preference (future-oriented): civilised
Short definition
Degeneracy means humanity is declining. Theoretically, anything that makes children worse than their parents is degenerate and "bad". When you have not learned from the mistakes your parents or grandparents have made (such as for instance beating you or engaging in a self-destructive behaviour such as drugs; alcohol, smoking) and you rather use them as an instruction manual (check out "emotional contagion" and "learned helplessness"), you are degenerate. It's scientifically proven that humans have developed; they are developing themselves and the alpha-area, the "basic frequencies" of the cerebral processes. Their ideological consciousness and cultural attainments develop continuously along with the times. If you oppose that development, you are degenerate. Smoking, for example, harms your fitness and health and costs money; you can provide less for your children. Furthermore it takes workforce to make cigarettes, workforce which instead could be used to help and improve future generations.
Paradigm (in the style of Thomas Mann)
Anything, whether intentionally or unintentionally, contributing to anti-intellectualism, dysgenics, devolution, the abrasion of the Flynn effect, decay of society and traditional virtues, things that harm oneself; addictions; overuse of social network, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, eating (or just buying) fast food, sweets or heavily chemically-synthesise products, being too lazy to read long texts, being very unathletic, not being able to value nature, not possessing basic skills such as being able to read a map, drive, make a fire, apply first aid, repair diverse types of slight damage (car, bicycle, house), devoting oneself to extreme body modification like an excess of tattoos or piercings which are scientifically linked to violence and "slut culture", behaviour patterns sustaining syndromes or complexes like SH, a father complex, Electra complex or Madonna–whore complex, being ignorant and uninformed about history, politics and economy to an alarming extent but still participating in respective arguments and trying to influence people even less informed, indulging in SNS, consciously choosing to get leveled ("hard data nexus theory"), preaching anything of what was mentioned above among like-minded, non-criticising people for self-affirmation and making yourself feel better about your behaviour while, at the same time, making others feel better about their equally degenerate behaviour (for instance posting "Shit, I wish I had a cold energy drink now" or "Haha, masturbating, alcohol and playing video games is all I do, so awesome" on Twitter) which, by definition, is adjacent to "crimes against humanity" and worse than just being degenerate yourself.
