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“Male and female created He them.” For hundreds, thousands, millions of years,
this truth was not a burden on humanity.
Many would rather ignore the whole statement because they don’t – or
don’t want to – accept the “He” portion.
Somehow, and religious teachers must bear some blame, “we” have, over
just a couple of decades, tried to
undo the essential facts of biology: male and female. Being called a female or male, amazingly,
collides with thousands of people’s beliefs.
Why has this phenomenon crept out of counselors’ offices and parents’
concern? Who are they who work so
tirelessly to force the sexual variant of Jonestown
on the rest of society?
Because lives are definitely lost amongst this new belief
structure.
Transgender-ism is a belief structure. It is not supported by biological fact in any
but the rarest of anomalies. It is a
belief, usually quite temporary, that one’s body is the “wrong” one. This is a strange thing to believe… strange
only if other humans were interested in discovering the source of the belief,
itself. But, strange becomes “normal”
and deserving of societal respect if – and only if – the individual’s feelings
have been elevated to the level of truth:
truth in the absence of evidence, a new faith.
Non-evidenced “truths” are now receiving legal
status as craven legislators bend over as far as possible to pander to
the new faith. Sadly, there are craven
doctors, too.
And craven educators.
Public schools are not merely tolerating and preventing overt discrimination or bullying against children pretending to be their opposite gender, but they are encouraging transgenderism among those children who are, for the moment, envious of the opposite sex. Parents, and professionals, ought to be helping children to be comfortable with their bodies, not to be revolting against them. At the same time, adults should all be trying to find the source of childrens’ “gender dysphoria.”
The resolution of this heretofor rare condition, is something adults should pursue, even if it means
a full social transition. Few people
will need to know that an individual was not born as he or she appears. Whether full surgical mutilation is called
for, is quite another question.
In the past decade the number of dysphoric youth has grown
1,500% to 5,000% and even more in some countries, with the ratio of girls to
boys flipping dramatically. Why? Transgenderism “advocates” would say that
only now are trans youth enjoying the freedom to express their “true”
identities, thus accounting for the explosive growth. Critics of the trend might see a frightening
desire, like a virus from the bowels of China, that infects female and male
alike, however disproportionately, with the desire to escape the
responsibilities of their sex.
There are unnumbered ways to achieve sexual release, alone, in pairs or even groups, and none require total denial of self, or bodily mutilation, so there is something else at work, beyond the sexual. Perhaps it is more Prudent to consider a virus that infects not those who reflect its torment but their parents, schools, and social institutions, like unbalanced feminism, which, with other failures of freedom, convince late-term, newborn, toddlers and pre-schoolers (which age socialists and fascists would have include all of the earlier mentioned) to distrust, if not hate, the prospects of womanhood and manhood. Despite our access to Instagram and Twitter, Panera, Chick Fil-A, Starbucks and weed, our twisted norms create a society in which children don’t want to be, well… who they are.
The result is not true gender dysphoria for most of its claimants, but a hatred for life, itself. Prior to actual suicide (the end-game for many who attempt to change their sex) these, now, tens of thousands try to kill their personal realities.
For those who are dysphoric, one’s heart must fill with
sympathy, and great care should be shown them, and tolerance and kindness. For most of the new residents of Jonestown,
however, new beliefs, alone, can save them however that counseling can be
accomplished. Doctors and clinics that
press them with chemical and surgical confirmation of unreality, are but
licensed charlatans. Their parents,
worse.
Shame on religious institutions. From old, old texts, replete with truths eternal, they have made difficult lessons and philosophies not more clear, but softer and “more inclusive,” practically rejecting realities in order to fill pews. The elegance and majesty of womanhood should be the easiest clay to work into gracefulness and motherhood, but they’ve largely failed to enhance those values. The responsibilities and required wisdom that men are obligated to accept and to achieve, are trivialized and even derogated, as boys are drugged into submission and global communications portray men not as leaders but as fools.
The institutions of our culture and nationhood, almost as
though coordinated by some evil puppeteer, are all reinforcing the concepts of
unreality and hyper-sexualization.
Websites produce and provide pornography 24/7 for free, perhaps the most
insidious attack on men, marriage and mental health. Congress after congress ignore this corrosion
without even discussing ways to restrict and limit global pornographics. Why?
Money? Is this addiction
different from opioids, gambling or tobacco?
Or does it simply expose the flaws within males that all “woke” geniuses
knew were there all along?
In a thousand ways we have made life, itself,
unattractive. Why would thousands of
young people, even youngsters, refuse to the point of embarrassment and
mutilation, to be who each actually is? Is
it because so many are born with the “wrong” body? All of a sudden? Doubtful. Birth is not the issue, Prudence believes,
but influences, even before birth. We
are teaching boys that being male is a sort of disease; and teaching girls that
life is a system of oppressions, including motherhood.
The destruction of social roles and values is reaping its
foul rewards with great efficiency. The end-game
is social dissolution, loss of nation-hood, economic stratification and, worse,
institutionalized unreality. What shall
we teach our children when lies have gained legal status?
Leftism, global socialism, in fact, is transforming America’s national unity and our local states, counties, cities and towns. It is insidious. Because of George Soros’ financed groups, for example, several counties are suffering under prosecutorial regimes that refuse to prosecute “small” crimes. Unfortunately, the definitions of the nature of crimes that fall in the “serious” and “minor” lists, are subjective, and proving to be dangerous by their very existence.
Every major metropolis, at least all the ones run by liberals… but I repeat myself, is turning away from public order. Several have District Attorneys who campaigned on platforms of “criminal justice reform,” which is Orwellian newspeak for leniency toward criminals. In Boston, which is mostly in Suffolk County, the new D. A., Rachel Rollins, ran with a list of “petty” crimes her administration would not spend time prosecuting. This was so that “they” could concentrate on “serious” crimes. One might suppose that every petty criminal – particularly those that enjoyed doing those crimes, or who felt a right to the proceeds of those crimes, or any of their relatives who thought it unfair that their otherwise “good” sons, daughters, nieces, nephews or grandchildren should be hassled or incarcerated when, after all, life has already been unfair to them, voted for Ms. Rollins… all in the interest of social justice. The D. A., it is fair to say, has never made a living running a convenience store, or an auto-parts store or small grocery. She has never paid the increasing insurance rates for small businesses victimized by thefts deemed non-serious; she has never paid the extra-high prices for the products those stores’ neighbors must pay to cover the no-longer-sanctioned thievery.
She represents the very odd, even twisted logic of
liberalism: people of certain skin colors and economic circumstances are not
responsible for their actions, since they are largely RE-actions to (pick all
that apply) racism, systemic racism, institutional racism, heritage of slavery,
social injustice, police brutality, departmental (police) racism, lack of
education resources, having to pay for Transit rides and poor housing. In fact there IS systemic racism and it is
the outrageously expensive welfare racism that has destroyed the family
structure of inner-city populations – mostly of color – since the “Great
Society” began. Regardless of what
people of any color may think about
brown-skinned people, even if their thoughts are racially vile – and they’re
out there – it is only the actual impact
of “racism” that truly matters. It is
safe to say that only an infinitesimal fraction of “racist” or prejudicial
thoughts have any impact on anyone besides the ignorant thinker.
Racism is as natural as breathing, otherwise, today, there would be no ghettos forming. People, however, prefer people like themselves: those who look like, sound like and “live” like themselves… even those who eat the same foods and attend the same churches. It’s as natural as breathing. What each ethno-centric group thinks about the others is mostly inconsequential. Should they think nicer thoughts? Probably, but it’s not anyone’s business what thoughts they think unless… unless they take some negative action because of them. Burning down or looting some Korean’s store because of racial hatred is racism that actually matters. Stealing from any store because you think life has been unfair to you because of “racism,” is actual racism that matters.
Consigning 4 or 5 generations of black and brown people to
welfare dependency, and now “legally” enabling them to be more effective
criminals, that is real racism that matters.
To help counter black welfare hopelessness, the same liberals promote
and finance abortion-on-demand as some sort of civil right, and, as evidently
intended, it reaches 60% or more of its pinnacle of “success” by killing off
black and brown babies. What a country.
San Francisco, formerly under the guidance of Gavin Newsome, now the winsome governor of California, has, in the span of less than a decade, converted itself from a city of beauty to one where humans are enabled, if not encouraged, to live more like animals, thanks to new “rights” afforded to those so inclined, to camp out in public spaces, take illegal drugs in public, commit certain levels of crimes to support their “oppressed” life choices, fornicate in public, and relieve themselves wherever the fancy strikes them, now amounting to 20,000 or more defecation “rights” in public places, including sidewalks, parks, playgrounds and schoolyards, each year! Uptight “conservatives,” San Francisco authorities discovered, have no right to impose lifestyle choices on others not as fortunate.
Dogs and other animals at least endeavor to cover up their
feces. Once public nudity was found to
be a “right,” was public defecation far behind?
Once public defecation was ensconced among constitutionally protected “rights,”
was defecation in a super market far behind?
That’s where the toilet paper is, after all. The astronomical property values in San
Francisco are starting to slip, and segregation from public areas is growing
for those able to afford it. Dystopia.
Liberalism appears to have partnered with global socialism
on the path toward destruction of “Western” culture and North American culture
in particular. A very effective way to
accomplish that goal is to disrupt cultural norms, one of which has ALWAYS been
that laws mean what they say, those who break those laws deserve legal
sanctioning for those criminal acts, policing, prosecution and adjudication
shall be, BY LAW, unbiased, fair and based only on the law. In other words, no individual in the chain of
justice has the power, logically, to decide the resolution of cases outside of
the lawful process – certainly not on the premise of some sort of triage due to
“limited resources.”
Who represents justice for victims? Isn’t justice the key reason for
relinquishing personal sovereignty to a government? Where does ANY law convey authority to an
individual to judge some people’s justice as more valuable than that of others?
None does, in fact, but many are deciding that justice somehow varies based on skin color. This is not to say that injustice hasn’t been
meted out by white authorities based exactly on skin color. It was shameful then, and is shameful,
now. But how is injustice for most
citizens able to correct, or balance, injustice meted out for some others in
the past… even if the past was yesterday?
It isn’t, of course, unless perceived in a certain level of hatred…
hatred spawned in racism, a terrible way to conduct public safety and other
policies.
Public safety is attacked hourly by the growing hordes of “homeless”
people accumulating in major cities, all liberal bastions of victimhood. Clearly, feeling sorry for people who, in the
vast majority, choose to be how and where they are, neither improves their
condition or living circumstances, nor their health or humanity. Victimhood requires someone to be “oppressing”
those in uncomfortable straits, and liberals/socialists, never exhaust the
reasons that misfits, criminals, drug addicts and otherwise “homeless” denizens
are not responsible for their situations.
Indeed, it seems more cruel to perpetuate – practically promulgate – living
“on the streets” rather than forcing those who do so to “shape up.”
Public vagrancy laws have, in some liberal jurisdictions, been set aside as somehow un-Constitutional. In other words, “society” has no right to require either living or sanitary standards. Drug addiction and public urination, defecation and lewd exposure are now civil rights. “Crimes of survival” are to be tolerated by the more fortunate in order to balance past – possibly current – oppression of “the homeless.” Cultural standards, norms, are now simply suggestions. By extension, then, one is left to decide which laws enforcing standards are worth obeying: very poor statecraft, to be sure, helping, steadily, to dissolve social and political unity. The natural result will be imposition of social order by a police state. The mindset of modern liberalism is creating, or has created, sets of problems that are insoluble by democratic republicanism.
A woman in Seattle was brutally raped at a car dealership by
a “homeless” man. Her screams brought
help too late to prevent the consummation of the assault. She has spoken out as loudly as she can
against policies that foment Seattle’s growing homeless/lawless
population. Liberals, at least those who
still feel sorry for poor, victimized, homeless criminals, attacked the victim for spreading a story that might reduce public
sympathies for “homeless” people!
In Los Angeles many homeless people “live” in the terminals
at LAX international airport. They cause
problems, of course, including filth, lewd and lascivious exposure to both
adults and children, stealing of small packages and purses – generally discomfiting
the traveling public. Some keep
themselves clean in the restrooms, some don’t.
Some avail themselves of indoor plumbing, some don’t. The situation is tolerated.
Liberal administrations shrug at the existence of these “intractable”
problems. Cities spend tens of millions “addressing”
the homeless problem, basically in trying to contain it. But they cannot, or will not, contain the
drugs, the diseases, the “petty” crimes or the human failure. Liberalism is incapable of creating or
imposing order and standards in urban centers.
Does this mean the problems are unsolvable? If liberals declare a condition as “normal,”
does that stop consideration of ideas for its solution?
To correct the
conditions, or causes of homelessness and addiction, requires changing the
beliefs of those who cling to that way of life.
This is not to say that most, or even very many of those living on the
streets intended to live this way or even want
to live this way, but they cling to it out of fear. It is their life and their comfort. It is where their co-sufferers live, their friends
and drug dealers, some quite petty, sharing more than selling. To be torn away from them is the most
grievous outcome imaginable. They help
one another and bond with one another. “Arresting”
them is no solution, since the penal system cannot provide what is missing. Individual cities cannot simply “place” them
in housing: their beliefs won’t have changed and their habits and life-choices
will immediately resume. For most of the
“street” people, a new belief in both themselves and in their legitimate place
in civilization, must be learned – inculcated, if you will.
OMG! Do you mean “re-education
camps? You fascist!” Yes.
The loudest screams will come from leftists, for whom the
entire country is a well-orchestrated re-education camp – but let that go for
the moment. There is no long-term, or
even short term solution to rampant,
growing homelessness, other than changing the beliefs of those who cling to
that way of survival. Pursuit of
happiness, indeed. They need a new happiness,
and not one drug-induced. A test-city/county
needs to be selected and a tightly defined state of emergency declared. The resources of a wealthy nation, and its
brain-power, must be applied to a new community where survival depends on
learning and practicing the skills of construction, farming, sewerage
treatment, fire-prevention… every single skill and craft needed to operate a
small town. Every homeless or addicted
person in the test region will be brought there.
Removed from filth and literally forced to be clean, in
every way, and drug-free, our test-community will rise from a tent-city to a
constructed one. Individuals will be
detoxed and then taught nutrition and self-care and then their old skills or
new ones will be employed – as will they – to create a model community. These people are not worthless, they are lost
or trapped. If they do not work they
will have meager sustenance. If they
work and contribute and grow, they will eat better, live better, perform
better. Much like the American legion’s “Boys’
State” and “Girls’ State” programs, they will form neighborhood groups and
eventually town or city councils. They’ll
elect leaders and establish schools for themselves and their children. They’ll learn how to build and furnish houses
in the most eco-friendly ways, and they’ll produce goods or foodstuffs to sell
to others so that their town can afford fuel, electricity and so forth. From completely subsidized they will become
completely independent, a program that will probably take 4 or 5 years. With success, every drug addict, homeless or
not, could be sentenced to “New Life Town.”
To accomplish this will require military discipline and
regimentation, and a domestic “Peace Corps” to assist relatively backward
people to learn to be civilized, to live well through self-discipline and
responsibility, rather than enforcements.
They are the wayward children of America. We know how to effect adult maturity and responsibility,
we do it all the time with our own children.
For how many more decades and ruined lives will we refuse to “raise”
these people?
We had take-out from Chipotle’s tonight. It’s pretty good, although hard to take home
without it’s becoming cold, but still tasty.
I went out of my way a few miles to get it, even though I nearly pass
one on my normal way home. When I
arrived the place was packed, unusually so – extraordinarily unusually so – for
a weeknight at this particular mall full of restaurants.
They were hosting a fundraiser for a five-time cancer victim
who had been on the local swim team in high school, in between cancer battles,
and who has made nothing but friends in her first twenty five years on
Earth. The swim team was sponsoring the
event during which, for several hours, Chipotle would donate not five or ten or
fifteen percent of revenues from identified supporters, but an astronomical
thirty-three percent thereof. By the
time I left the wonderfully noisy establishment, the line had expanded from the
long one I waited in, to one that extended through the double doors. I had tears in my eyes.
The ultimate beneficiary is a granddaughter. But that isn’t the topic… not really.
I work in a small city beset with every social ill, discomfort, and disruption there is, from drug abuse to gangs to illegal entrants on welfare. Yet it has its own vitality, too, with hundreds of small businesses, including several that expedite everything from cars and furniture to cash back to the “home” countries. Driving along the best route to the Chipotle restaurant I passed blocks that once were nearly pure Italian, now nearly pure “Hispanic,” although none of the residents come, actually, from Spain.
Looking at the myriad signs hanging from brackets or
otherwise affixed to the storefronts, I was struck by all the forces, factors,
influences and opportunities to create something, that had come together to
form the human consciousness that had created this or that sign in
particular. And for that matter, that
had created the things on display in the windows, or the very windows or the
cars parked in front. In the boundless
(we think) Universe of planets and places of every shape and kind, how
insignificant and majestic each of those creations are. Why are they what they are?
Across the street were new apartment blocks of certain size and shape, in certain colors chosen from millions of colors, made of materials natural and invented, but made – created, by people, whose purpose and motivation may have been garnering money, another human invention, but whose product, however important to the net occupants, is, in the grand scheme of things, so infinitesimally tiny as to be invisible, which is not to say, meaningless. One can rightfully assume, I believe, that every human-conceived and created thing or, I suppose, idea, is meaningful. Indeed every thing is or was meaningful in a large manner at some time, and the fact that no one we can find remembers its large meaning in no way detracts from its infinitesimal and utter importance.
How is it that we mere specks of tissue on this planetary
mote have found within ourselves the need and the ability to create
things? How is it that we have invested
so much of our cosmically virtual instants of life to the work of creating
things, but even more astonishing, to devise ways and means to care about one another… like the five-time
cancer patient who has created of herself, in spite of constant physical attacks
on her tiny body, a teacher to children?
That so large a fraction of our blinks of time is spent
creating ways to comfort ourselves and our children, is logical and to be
expected, one would think; but, how is another such large fraction of our time
consumed by caring for others, unrelated, most likely and unmet, even more
likely? Chemistry? Cosmic rays?
Hmmnh. What is the point?
Many of us human specks think there is no point. To they who agree, apparently one should have as much fun as possible, as much sex as possible, own as many things as possible, be they items for sale behind that singular window in the building built as it was with the certain kind of sign saying what it says on the street where I passed, or the painted apartment blocks with unknown people in them… unknown at least to me. If the things one owns happen to bring the owner more fun and more sex, then he or she has hit “life’s lottery,” making him or her “lucky” despite the impossibility of luck as a force working on the dust-mote of a planet we call home, else there would be something larger than our atoms and selfishness.
The house a semi-handyman lives in is full of things that he
has made or perhaps modified or built because of need or artistry. They are pleasing
to him, for a hundred reasons, perhaps even to impress his wife or mate. Oftentimes they were argued about in the
concept, but he still “did” them, sometimes to praise. But, why?
Why could not things have simply stayed the same? Someone else crafted them as they were, or
damaged them to leave them so. Barring
concerns of safety or comfort, why not leave them alone, tan instead of green,
yellowish instead of rose, blue instead of stained and polished wood? Whence came the compulsion, by anyone, to change
them, all those things?
There may be, a billion stars away, a planet with what we call astronomers looking through what we call telescopes and barely detecting the changes in brilliance of our little star as we circle across its disk of light. If a little more “advanced” than we they may have detected radio signals or nuclear blasts on our little speck and feel compelled, somehow, to let us know they know. We will. What would it matter, the color of my house or socks or fingernails, to any of those distant, distant cousins? Or, to us, theirs? But they and we, matter above all of our respective, awakened histories, to one another. Interesting, that.
Where does freedom live?
Is there some reason, aside from novels and movies, both strange aspects
of humanity, to believe that only planet-wide, homogenous people could ever
advance sufficiently to contact other life?
Isn’t science most properly an affirmation of freedom? Freedom to wonder,
investigate, experiment and explore?
Freedom to challenge “truths” and to postulate new ones? A billion stars away, would the search for us
be a scientific endeavor or a military one?
Or, as many appear to believe, increasingly over many
decades, is freedom, the essence of individuality, an impediment to “progress?” If it is snuffed out on our Earth-speck, will
the Universe care? Or is freedom a blip
in the history of humanity, otherwise destined to be controlled by more
powerful elites, inexorably planet-wide?
How is it that humans evolved to invent democracy and the concept of
republicanism? Cellular luck? Not possible if there are no philosophical
forces, like “luck,” operating outside of simple existence. Did biochemistry produce democracy? Or a nation founded on self-government and
limited central powers?
And if “freedom,” the inherent rights of individuals to both
succeed or fail, were to be snuffed out on the tiny mote of matter we call
Earth, would it matter to our brothers on that other speck a billion suns away? Would it matter here?
It is an interesting “fad,” we might call it, to portray
every event in history from the viewpoint of the most “woke” or radical
perspectives fostered and pandered-to by today’s politicians. It doesn’t seem to be helpful in terms of
increasing knowledge or of increasing understanding
of the past. But it has, in the span
of 20 years or so, become commonplace.
Every example of this new
ignorance need not be brought before
the bar of reason for the student of history to still be able to ask, “why?”
If we accept the premise that schools are the imparters of truth, then it follows that
they should be the bastions of truth,
as well. Interesting word,
‘bastion.’ It means a projection from a
defensive wall that affords more effective firing angles against attackers, and
it also means “bulwark.” A bulwark is a
person, or a thing, that is the immovable defense of the fort or castle. In the battle of ideas, persons in the school
or education business, are obligated by their office in society – the official
role to which they are committed and for which they are well-compensated – to
be the bulwarks against UN-truth and lies.
In that regard, their best success derives from having
taught students to both find truth and to recognize it when it appears… or
disappears.
Parents consign their children to schools in order for them
to learn truths and to learn about truth.
Human beings entrusted with imparting truth to children of any age, are
sorely tested to not convey opinions or beliefs they hold that cannot be demonstrated
to be true. One might think – and
parents might hope – that a mechanism exists to remove teachers who cannot help
but taint truth with their opinions.
That the opposite mechanism
exists should give us pause. Short of
severe debauchery or criminal acts, it is nearly impossible to pry a teacher
loose from his or her tenured security.
What are they teaching?
Let’s look at a simple event that has caused news stories in
recent years; the landing of the
“pilgrims” in Massachusetts Bay, ostensibly at what we know as Plymouth, named
for Plymouth, England. To get to
Plymouth the so-called Pilgrims had to endure privations and tribulations that
we, today, in our land of too much food and electricity, cannot conceive
of. We lose our cool when another car blocks
us or cuts in front of us. Imagine
uprooting your family and leaving the place of your birth and generations of
customs and history, to sign on to a corporate adventure to the “New World,”
about which little is known. Your first
ship proves unseaworthy and you limp back to port until another can be obtained
and hired to your purposes.
You are unable to carry with you more than a small trunk’s
worth of tools and possessions. On your
little ship there are no bathrooms, no showers, salted fish and beef to eat, no
fresh vegetables, no toothpaste or toilet paper. Privacy is virtually non-existent, you know
nothing of germs or disease except that the latter is common. Childbirth is among the deadliest of burdens
for women. For years you have planned and
hoped for a better life upon reaching the distant unknown shore, and after the
final two months at sea you are deposited on the shore, far off from your
intended destination, now forced to fend for yourselves from the ground up, in
fact, building shelters, foraging for wildlife and wild fruits or berries to
try to store enough food for the imminent winter which will be much harsher
than what you have been used to, particularly since your delay in leaving
England left you in the New World in October, rather than in May or June.
Among your beliefs is deep religious faith in God, bolstered
by frequent prayer, but He isn’t cushioning any blows or revealing hidden
stores of healthy food. Many of you die
in that first winter, yet faith and incredible work see you through. Eventually relations with natives, whom you
believe to be “savages,” keep you from dying out altogether and your duties as
profitable fur trappers can commence.
Accidentally, in total ignorance, you have brought germs
that infect the native people, germs against which they have no defense. You have brought another disease, economics,
including concepts of private property, fences and stockades, and guns and
swords of steel to defend them. You
believe that God has blessed you with a new land over which you have every
right to take dominion. History records
the clash of beliefs and its outcome.
To this Prudent observer, descended from those Pilgrims and
others who followed soon after, the story of immense courage and faith,
regardless of what we may, today, think of that faith, is a bit heroic. Courage in the face of danger is one of
humankind’s abiding virtues and is worthy of honor and emulation, but what is
more frequently discussed, even abetted by public entities, is the awfulness of
the Pilgrims and all of their virtues and beliefs, since it turned out badly
for the natives. The thanks offered
prayerfully to God, for the salvation of the tiny colony, must now be
denigrated because of those germs and the new ideas the colonists held dear.
The strength of the underdog fighter who wins against all
odds, must be hated because, we have since learned, he once flipped the bird to
another driver and… it was a woman!
There will never be a good reason to train the way he did, or learn the
tactics that he used to win, not ever will there be a reason to mention his
name or take his picture. Everything
must be expunged.
And so education has purged itself of the role of
Christianity in the creation and final founding of the United States. Since many teachers and professors, now, are
so sure that belief in the Bible’s teachings is superstition, they cannot bring
themselves to learn how it is woven into the fabric of America, and certainly
not to teach about it. Is it all just
economics? That was Marx’s view; we
certainly must teach about that. So, is
the “new” narrative about where America came from the same as “truth?” It would seem Prudent to judge that it is a
half-truth at best. Does that fulfill
the essential requirement that educational institutions… and functions… be the
defenders and imparters of truth? If
not, what are they? What are they being
paid to do, if not impart truth?
Christopher Columbus was nothing if not unusually
brave. It took unusual courage to set
sail beyond the sight of land, not knowing how far it was to reach another
shore. It was a struggle for him to
obtain not one, but 3 crews to follow him on his undefined journey. When he landed he was thousands of miles from
where he thought he must be. His mission
was financed by the newly victorious, fused monarchies of Ferdinand and
Isabella, who defeated the Moors just one day before granting Columbus the
support he needed.
They needed gold, which the “indies” reportedly had, and
some other valuables Columbus’ crewmates and soldiers might come across. No one on earth had knowledge of germs,
viruses or infections. No one. The Spaniards were simple thieves who
believed non-Europeans, non-Catholic non-Europeans most particularly, were “savages.” In other words, Spaniards, like French,
British, Italian, Dutch and other explorers… Portuguese, were brought up to
believe that because of their relative enlightenment, manufactures, printing,
marriage, courts, police, and religion, they were superior to savages wherever
they found them. The Spaniards were
fulfilling the charge of their King and Queen, whose authority came from
God. There was no better work they could
do. Not so simple, perhaps.
Today Columbus is vilified, as if current hot feelings might improve Columbus’ own attitudes, causing him and all of his crewmates who had just risked their lives on their mission to the “Indies,” to renounce every belief they held and their faith, and to switch to social services for the savages they had found, perhaps teaching them how to forge iron and smelt bronze, and to build better huts and grow more crops. The next expedition could teach them to read the Bible and raise their children.
Many teachers seem consumed by the estimates of decimation
brought about by European diseases thanks to Columbus’ discovering the new
world. Rather than recognize the
essential sacrifice and bravery of mariners of Columbus’ day, along with the unintended consequences
of the intercontinental movement of peoples, educators convinced of the evil
intent of all white-skinned peoples, pummel their students with the evils
initiated by white Europeans.
Increasingly liberal teachers twist the views of their students such
that whites begin to hate themselves and question not only bad actions of the
past, but even ideas and philosophies generated by people whose skin is not
brown.
This immediately translates into hatred of America and the
ideas that created it; it also validates hatreds the racialist hate-mongers are
encouraging non-stop in black communities.
Neither trend is healthy for our nation, our future progress or our
steady destruction of disease and poverty.
It’s stupid, essentially. Shame on
us.
This same poisoned outlook has been seized upon by
socialists now to fuel their never-ending struggle to destroy individual
freedom, a goal that may only be achieved by destroying America. They must destroy Christianity, too, since
many white people believe in it.
Can the descendants of slave owners atone not only for the
sins of their ancestors but for the sins of their ancestors’ ancestors’
ancestors? No, never. The actions of the past still remain no
matter what is done, now. Can the
descendants of slaves (which are virtually all of us depending on how many
ancestries we include) receive some kind of justice for the sufferings of their ancestors? No, the suffering will have still
happened. Is that suffering the reason
some brown-skinned people are economically behind the curve today? Or educationally? No.
Up until the “Great Society,” which federalized welfare has
purchased the votes of blacks for generations, the suffering of slaves had
created a great strengthening of their descendants. “We shall overcome” had genuine meaning and
blacks were overcoming and gaining economic power faster than their white “oppressors.” But when hate became a tax-funded industry,
black progress not only slowed, but reversed.
And still they excel… in virtually every field, yet more also fail,
convinced by their hate-filled leaders that life is unfair because of (pick all
that apply) whites, Christians, police, schools, businesses, Republicans,
slavery, Columbus, NASA, Trump. What a
waste, however enrichening it is for some.
In many cities, towns, villages and hamlets, churches and
synagogues display some form of rainbow flags.
If the congregation and pastor is really “woke,” the top color stripe is
black; otherwise ‘red and orange, green and blue, shining yellow, purple, too…’
is enough to advertise how welcoming that church and congregation is to, well,
any one. It is a friendly intention,
throwing wide the arms of, umm… it’s not clear, Christianity(?)… to the world.
Among Christianity’s strengths is its history of
reformation. The best known is the
protestant reformation of Martin Luther.
His 95 Theses exposed the sloppiness and politicization of the Catholic
Church, it’s corruption and ties to wealthy bankers and corrupt royal families. There followed a reformation of Christianity,
but not of the Catholic Church, particularly.
The world forced “the Church” to adapt, but it always appeared to
follow, not lead. Despite its
self-proclaimed heritage direct from Simon Peter, Holy Mother Church retained
its worldly flaws and intrigues, descending into sexuality most foul, ruining
thousands of lives and families. It
appears incapable of reforming itself.
Rampant homosexuality and pedophilia has caused a
reformation never intended, where droves of the faithful washed their hands and
feet of the Church, losing trust in the priesthood. The written and spoken liturgy and the artful
back-story Catholics have recited and agreed with for centuries is still the
same, but the trust is different.
Despite its self-immolation of recent decades, the Catholic Church is
still a pillar of Western civilization – worth our defending. One hopes the Church will come clean and preach
the truth; its power to do and to guide good, is still immense. It is incapable of defending Christianity,
itself, just now, especially in the face of Islam and other anti-Christian
forces arrayed against it. Catholic
parishes don’t need to fly the rainbow banner.
“Protestantism” reforms itself by subdividing. Each new sect, even each new congregation
within some sects, keys in on certain tenets of the Bible as the best lessons
to learn for how to live a “Christian” life, raise your children and increase
charity in the world. To the degree that
each is honestly led, each has a divine function to fulfill. Everyone is not at the same point in their
evolution – evolution of the soul, that is – and each will find the teacher
whose teaching he or she is ready to receive.
Each should also be ready to move upwards when it is time for a more
profound teacher along the path toward truth.
Lately, however, Protestants are racing to not be the
exception in the Rainbow Revolution.
Every church has one: Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians,
United Churches of Christ, liberal Baptists, even a handful of reform
Synagogues. Jehovah’s Witnesses and
Seventh Day Adventists appear immune to the blandishments of Rainbows, as are
Quakers. The latter three are not caught
up with filling the pews for no reason or for any reason.
If the Rainbow symbol were created to bring more people into adherence to Divine Law, it would be a wonderful, actual, reformation. Church “Reform” ought to improve human distillation of the Word insofar as we have tried to learn and understand it. If a widespread movement serves, instead, to DEform churches and their ability to spread the Word, then Christians ought to question it, starting with ministers, preachers, priests, rabbis, bishops and deacons. That’s not happening… not that a Prudent observer can detect.
What do interested people believe that banner says?
The first and primary message, beyond all claims of “inclusivity” or unity with those discriminated against racially, is that same-sex activities are equally valid to those of heterosexuals. Every other meaning of the other 5, 6 or 7 colors, occasionally adding white, is simply claiming identity with every use and delight in the ‘rainbow,’ particularly for children. If unicorns are made happy by rainbows then so are we, so to speak. The rainbow flag, originally a symbol of racial inclusiveness, from the late fifties and sixties, is a clever appropriation of thoughtless human sympathies for the unhappy.
Consequently, the banner has become ubiquitous during
“Pride” month, which is not ever a celebration of the Word of God, nor does it
reflect prayerful meditation on the innate beauty of God’s creation of
humankind. It is a collective demand…
against heterosexuality, since true gays and lesbians will never enjoy it or
the incredible joy of motherhood and fatherhood and of the nurturing of
offspring; and against God and anyone who claims to speak for Him. The demand translates, both for other humans
and for ecclesiastics, that non-heterosexuals deserve both attention and
respect based on their different sexuality, unusual emotions and desires, and
discordant habits. Imagine: a group of
humans who are not happy with their emotional make-up, so much so that they
will flaunt their intention and practice of breaking… no, denigrating,
religious dogma and, to the faithful, the Holy Word of God.
In the chance of there being a God, sneering at His Law and
rules for righteousness is a very arrogant move, a Prudent observer might
think. Unfortunately, economics being
what they are, churches have been tempering their messages for decades, hoping
to fill the pews with charitable attendees.
That is a path along which it is virtually impossible to reverse
direction. Accepting the rainbow flag as
a church’s statement of acceptance is to ignore the shift that has occurred in
the legal status of the self-proclaimed “LGBTQ” “community.”
One might Prudently inquire of a member of a rainbow-endowed
church… or even of a clergy-person, just what he or she means to say with the
flag. Without a doubt the answer would
include something about “anti-discrimination” or “inclusiveness” and “all are
God’s children,’ and the like. None
would suggest that they displayed the flag with the message that 1) Christians
must forsake scripture so that non-heterosexuals won’t feel challenged in their
pleasures or beliefs; and 2) By extension, all laws and customs that follow the
inherent message of Judeo-Christian scripture regarding same-sex relations and
sex activities, must be set aside by law, no matter the damage to our society
or civilization. No, no, no. “We love everyone,” they might say.
Yet, somehow, their love does not seem to extend to
everyone’s beliefs in equal measure.
That is, they have no banners celebrating the strictures and scriptures
of the Word of God that underlies the very existence of their church, physically
and spiritually. Adding the rainbow
banner to the physical existence of their church would indicate that what the
followers of that banner believe is not only equal to the beliefs that built
and maintain the church, physically and congregationally, but, to some degree,
greater than those of the founders of that church. “Oh, no,” comes the distressed reply, “we are
simply saying they are welcome no matter what they believe right now. The magic of Christianity will infuse their
hearts and cause them to renounce their forbidden practices and join more fully
with our beliefs!” Okaaaay.
That last is a Prudent speculation but doesn’t actually work
out in fact. In fact, the presence of
the rainbow flag acknowledges that non-heterosexuals are consistently demanding
full “equality” with religious heterosexuals, including full marriage equality,
as one example. Resignedly, most
“rainbowed” churches advertise their willingness to perform, and therefore
endorse, same-sex “marriages.” This is a
public replacement of parts of scripture that undergirded the creation of their
churchly existences. At this point,
parishioners and clerics alike are advertising their desire to accept emotions
felt by non-heterosexuals as equal or even superior to their previously
revered scriptures, teachings and beliefs.
Extraordinary. By erecting the
rainbow banner, all of these have foresworn their existence as churches, in favor of a new existence as
social or fraternal clubs, of whose continued existence the countdown to
disappearance has begun. For shame.
Much the same is happening in secular circles, and in
government. Secular society is being
forced, jump by jump, to accept a new basis of family, of children and of
life’s purposes. Government, much like
churches seeking contributions in their collection plates, is racing to get in
front of this heritage-replacing movement so that it might consider itself
still the leader of society (in the persons of craven politicians). Consequently we have commenced to codify the
self-declared feelings of
non-heterosexuals such that public education and personal privacy have been
transformed in the space of two decades, to the point where individuals may be
punished by severe professional and economic loss for failing to treat
self-declared feelings, even self-declared sexual
identities as the equal of reality. This is a dangerous weapon aimed at
rationality, heretofore the glue of our cooperative society.
Creating laws that grant or reveal new civil rights that can change on an individual basis at individual whim, is extremely
sketchy. Punishing people for failing to
respond according to some shifting, individually
prescribed way, to the individual declarations of unproveable personal
feelings, marks the descent into anarchy, and the end of reason, as well as the
end of social cohesiveness: the tyranny of a tiny minority over the vast
majority, backed by police powers. May
God save us from folly.
Following the news over the past, well… 30 years…, no, 38
years, yields an overarching sense of unease, at least, or sadness. On the other hand, there is a lot that was
and is good about the period, although the risks to the nation have, in fact, increased.
Recently we attended an award ceremony honoring police
officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians. Lots of plaques were handed over, many
political citations delivered, photographs taken and hands shaken. Great descriptions were spoken by proud
chiefs of departments, of the events, both heroic and heart-warming, that
spurred the recognitions and the great banquet we all attended. America is rather special in the world of
celebratory and honorary plaques. Not
simply sports trophies, including individual trophies, but plaques and awards
for individual excellence in every field, including abundant charitable acts
and volunteerism, are presented / awarded in the millions every year in North
America.
Such was the focus of the banquet noted above. As in every year, individuals and small teams
of police, firefighters and EMT’s, responding to emergencies large and small,
performed extremely well, usually saving lives or injury, restoring safety or
comforting those affected. We have come
to expect such excellence and we’re happy to recognize it publicly. Private companies proudly provide financial
support so that hundreds both within and without the departments represented,
can join in recognizing the “heroes amongst us.”
Where do they come from, these men and women of excellence? Meritocracy: a tradition of testing and
performing to standards that should at least make excellence likely, if not
guarantee it. High, even sacrificial
performance, does not derive from social egalitarianism; it derives from
individuality and the beliefs of the individual. It derives from an inner sense of sacrifice
for others… even others one does not know.
If such true servants were assigned their duties, proscribed
by rules and threats of loss, the acts of heroism would be much rarer, the acts
of charity unknown. The innate belief in
a purpose for life that is transcendent, spiritual, if you will, is required to
act selflessly. Humans, inherently
capitalist as they are, will not risk comfort or safety without some reward,
spiritual or otherwise. Where the
spiritual aspect is destroyed, only personal wealth, money, sex, or other
worldly riches suffice.
The men and women honored earlier this year received no financial reward. I can’t state any evidence of greater safety for any of them. They didn’t get raises, although their dinners were free to them. The sponsors presented plaques of recognition; various state senators and representatives provided citations from their respective legislative chambers, and mayors and town managers chimed in, too. But, no wealth.
The honorees consider that they were “just doing their
jobs,” and that no awards were needed.
Yet they could have each “done their jobs” with less effort, less risk,
less imagination or innovation. Each
might have done the minimum necessary to pass the standard tests, to attend
required training, or even to take that training very seriously. But they didn’t. Each seems to carry in himself or herself, a
sense of duty to something greater than one’s self gain. Each seems to excel when he or she might do
something lesser.
Their communities do the right thing to provide recognition,
be it a plaque, a certificate or simply deserved thanks. Prudence says it’s a shame more citizens
don’t take part.
“Doctors” learn this procedure from one another to become “good” at it.
The battle over a “border wall” on the southern, Mexican border is a symptom of larger and more significant hatreds motivating a large minority of American residents. One hopes, and prays, that those same will step back and reconsider their desire to feed such ugly motivations. Led by Democrat leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer, Barack Obama and now, Andrew Cuomo, and many others, these new political haters appear to share several common traits:
They hate the Constitution as it was designed
and written. The intent of the founders
cannot be accepted, in their views, because some of them owned slaves, a
grievous custom, without question, but totally irrelevant to the ideas and
philosophies they espoused. In fact, the
designers and compilers of the American ideas were ALL opposed to slavery and
did their best to help it phase out of American life. Read Frederick Douglass; he understood.
They are deeply ignorant of American and of
European history, and of the Bible, itself.
The underpinnings of American
culture are ignored by them, even reviled.
The institutions of government are trusted by
them more than any individual’s motivation, and the seeming ability to
legislate or regulate – doesn’t much matter – people to act as their fellow
thinkers wish, is so tantalizing as to distort the presence or even the
perception of liberty.
They view America’s existence as an affront to
all non-white, non-European people, and therefore not deserving of defense,
even of its borders, and that the history of America should be erased from
people’s minds and certainly from educational systems so that America’s
evilness and corruption can never again interfere with universal sharing of all
wealth or with individual freedoms to play, fornicate and indulge as Gaia
intended, under the careful watch of the Smarter Ones. They’ll identify themselves.
So, politics is not the actions of a free people to choose
their leaders and governing philosophies; it is the benign control of wages,
prices and production so that everyone is EQUAL, with brownish people being more
equal than white people. Skills-based education
will no longer be required for most students, so long as there are enough very
smart people who should be compensated for making everyone else comfortable.
The quaint chaos of individuality and “freedom” can be
avoided.
The majesty of American citizenship is unique in the
world. There is no system like
ours. Anyone… anyone, anyone who can
honestly swear to uphold the Constitution, obey civic law, pay his or her bills
and act responsibly, can become an American – an actual, living, breathing,
American. One wishes those born here were held to the same
standards, but still, it’s impossible to sign up for a French residency and
ever, ever become, well, French. The
same is true for Japan, China, Japan, Korea, or India or virtually any ethnically defined country.
You might get to live in other countries legally, but you’ll never
become one of them. America, including Canada, is different. America is defined by the ideas that formed
her, and by geography. That’s it. No matter how hard racists of every shade
attempt to say America is defined by white skin, it has never been so.
This is not to say there haven’t been some terrible ideas
held by “Whites.” There are terrible
ideas held by every race. The tendencies
to gain power or wealth or women by whatever means can be devised, legality and
justice be damned, is pretty much universal.
The religious / ethical belief structures that lead us to contain those
desires, to channel them for greater goods, to construct families that produce
good adults from the children they are responsible for… those we are tearing
down by every means possible, even through new laws that give status to the
most twisted perversions and hatreds.
Hatred of America is readily evidenced by laws – LAWS – that permit partial-birth “abortion” and even infanticide for the most temporal purposes, even convenience. Since Roe v. Wade was given Supreme Court justification, we have killed-off 61 million Americans while importing 30 million non-Americans to “pay for our Social Security.” The trouble with Americans is they might become infected with individuality, Constitutionalism, responsibility and freedom! So, we destroy those who might make America stronger and import, illegally, those more likely to be dependent upon the whims and pleasures of the Smarter Ones, made widely known by their widely parroted self-declarations.
Trump, for all his flaws and imperfections, is trying,
almost alone, to restore the mighty engines of freedom. If we are waiting for perfect, flawless leaders to
arrive before we follow them away from rot and debauchery, we’ll wait forever
while the last great hope of mankind is pissed away.
Things just aren’t the same, anymore… have you noticed? On the other hand, it’s not Prudent to say
they ever were – the same I mean. Strong
societies like the United States, remain strong because some things are the
same, in fact; to protect ourselves, our grandchildren and their grandchildren,
the strong fibers in our culture must be defended and inculcated in our
children as well as in ourselves. There
are too many who should understand their presence and purpose but appear
ignorant of them.
One such fiber is our Constitution. Conservatives revere it; leftists unceasingly
circumvent it. Since its adoption the
Constitution has held strong, but has no effect on national direction when
governance simply steps into the shadows and ignores it. Most of that determined ignorance includes
big tax-funded payoffs to politically significant segments of the citizenry,
cementing the synthesis, into the new
thesis that the Constitutional limitation on this or
that governing act actually could be interpreted in a different (socialistic)
way. Later there is always the new antithesis that, couched in terms of “equal protection
under the law” and “non-discrimination,” must, “constitutionally” be applied to
still more segments until there’s a permanent acceptance of that much socialism
by the very conservatives who believe they are defending the Constitution! It’s a strong, inelastic fiber that’s been
stretched, nevertheless, over the past 150 years.
Conservatives believe that pulling back from the severe
strains on the Constitutional fiber, is the only long-term solution to the
survival of the American idea.
Religion, churches (church-communities) and religious
education form a fiber that is perceived as “quaint” by the leftist elements on
the East and West coasts and urban pockets in between. Anti-religion is strong on college campuses,
as it is in public grade and high schools.
Being at least agnostic, if not atheistic, is worn as a badge of
intellectual status, certainly since the 1960’s; those still attending are being taught that
the Bible and the words of Jesus somehow fit socialism. In response, churches are failing to define
the difference between worldly comforts and holy purposes of life. Government, under a Constitutional guarantee
of non-interference in and by religion itself, has proven feckless and works
harder to divest itself of moral responsibility at every level. This “fiber” is threadbare and undependable.
Family cohesiveness is the core strength of any society. In no culture has the strength and identity of mores and traditions been separated from widespread, if not complete, adherence to the family “pattern,” until the degradation of “Western,” culture, now entering its seventh decade. It is quickly becoming America’s greatest weakness and we have repeatedly elected representatives who facilitate it with misguided welfare programs. Without succeeding generations of “America”-acculturated citizens, there will be no “nation” and worse, there will be no one to defend it. Electronics and computerized health-care are not substitutes for strong, morally straight families, for only they form the “fiber” of freedom and self-government enabled through the Constitution.
Public education is the second greatest acculturation
mechanism and process we have. By
default public schools and teachers are charged with the responsibility to
educate succeeding members of our society and culture: new “Americans,” in truth. Since the 1970’s, certainly, teachers and
their unions have cemented themselves into codified bailiwicks where they can
teach almost anything without fear of being fired, while rewarding those
elected “representatives” who protect their “bailiwicks,” with solid political
support. Unthinking – or lightly
thinking – citizens vote for said “representatives” and vote further to
“support” public education with tax increases and overrides to prove their
great morality in defense of an American tradition. Meanwhile, “teachers” are increasingly
producing less-literate graduates who distrust, if not hate, the United States
and the true traditions of sacrifice, thrift, personal responsibility and
Judeo-Christianity, while embracing socialism, of all things the most
antithetical to American success and strength.
As a culture we are failing miserably to make the fabric of our nation
stronger, and we grin as we reward those who facilitate our internal
weakness. This “fiber” is now almost
invisible, maintained mostly in private, church-connected schools, and not all
of those.
Finance and wealth creation have been, and should be, strong
fibers in the fabric of industrialized societies, of which the United States is
one, like it or not. Both are tightly
connected to honesty in our legal structures, honesty in our contracts, honesty
in our “money,” fair debt creation and destruction, and private property. In short, the economics of the Bible, both
old and new testaments, like it or not.
Proto-socialists rail against “unfair” wealth “distribution.” They are simultaneously right and wrong. Wealth is not “distributable,” per se, and
“fairness” is irrelevant, but the accumulation and possession of “wealth,” is
certainly uneven, leading to strong feelings of envy and raw hatred of the “greedy.” These feelings are political minefields and
rich fodder for politicians whose beliefs are fundamentally anti-American… or
anti-family: same thing. But back to
“money”:
Financially, the federal government is a failure, unable to maintain its own household within a budget and even to create an honest budget through anything close to honest legislation. Because the Congress can, and the U. S. is in a global position to enable it, the federal government borrows more than it can (ever) repay, every fiscal year. Despite these well-known facts of financial incompetence, American voters continue to elect “representatives” who believe – and require by legislation – that more and more of every American’s personal financial security should depend upon or be in the hands of, the federal government. This “fiber” is a misconstrual of the “strings” that federal intrusion always includes – strings that could strangle us.
Debt is a tool of growth, investment, liquidity, defense, achievement, construction, infrastructure, public health and more, much more. Yet it is also a weapon, threatening and weakening whole nations, indeed, every nation. Instead of leading the world economically, proving the superiority of free enterprise and freedom itself, the United States has succumbed to banking globalism and to the blandishments of socialism, under which “investments” are made in daily necessities for large fractions of our population. Economically there is no “R.O.I” – return on investment – where debt is incurred in the furthering of dependency. The U. S. carries a “current” debt liability that is approaching annual G.D.P. Our productivity cannot generate sufficient surplus to even “service” that debt (pay the interest on it) without borrowing other debt to do so, given the nature of our entitlement budget and bloated pension commitments. Weapon-wise, debt allows international banking to FORCE the U. S. to borrow to meet its commitments for interest payments. Every dollar of debt is a dollar of weakness, not strength; of obligation, not freedom. Our “representatives” are doing this type of budgeting “for” us since it’s too complicated for us to understand.
Money is real. That is, “money” has intrinsic value: gold, silver, platinum or other “hard” currencies, or the notes that stand for a set value of real money so long as those notes may be traded for real money on demand. We don’t have “money” any longer, although we have currency that we are still willing to work for, sell for, buy with and “save up” for those rainy days. Written on the notes in our pockets are official dictates that this or that piece of paper shall be accepted as “legal tender” in all transactions, public or private. Someone famous and/or important has his or her name printed nearby affirming the quality of the banknotes we hold. They are no longer U. S. Notes, they are Federal Reserve Notes, a private bank with a public name. Instead of having the U. S. Mint simply print U. S. Notes when we need more liquidity in the economy, we incur a debt to the Federal Reserve bank, and others, including foreign countries – debts we have no hope of repaying in principal, while our obligation to “service” those debts is unending. The government prints U. S. Bonds, however, which are accepted as good instruments for the loans their purchasers are making to the United States. The question, is, therefore, if the bonds are good, why not skip the growing interest cost and just print our own money? Hmmmnnnhh.
So, our money is not honest. It is, instead, merely confidence notes that we and most of the world, accept. Federal Reserve Notes may be exchanged at any so-called bank only for other Federal Reserve Notes… not for gold or silver or anything of intrinsic value except, if inclined, for modern pennies, the content of which cost more than 1 cent. Melting them down for the intrinsic metal value is a crime, of course. More and more we exchange our “cash” for magnetic bubbles on a hard drive, trusting the federally regulated “bank” to protect the record so that we may access it at gasoline pumps, hardware stores and websites that will trade books and electronic gizmos for a share of those magnetic records. We are now a couple of layers of separation from real-value-money and yet fully confident that “our” money is both safe and safely “ours.”
Our entire economy is based on, and priced on, debts and interest. Think about it. Our rush to “cashless” commerce carries a very high price, whether one makes use of credit cards or not. First, the merchant/ restaurateur who accepts your card, must pay the transfer or remitting agent a fee for that privilege – a fee based on a percentage of the transaction amount, including taxes. This may be 1.5%, 2%, 3% and occasionally more depending on total flow of “credit” transactions for that single location or for the total transactions for a chain of locations. Many card-holders use “Rewards” cards to obtain fractional cash-back or “miles” or other goodies marketed as though free, simply as a thank-you for using the card. In reality those “rewards” raise the fees to the vendor/merchant for the privilege of accepting the card. Those costs are recouped entirely from the cost of goods sold – there is no free lunch. Later, the card-holder receives a bill from the “credit-card company” (bank) for all the stupid latte’s, Big Macs and smoothies he or she has enjoyed during the month preceding. Smart card-holders pay that bill in total the minute they receive it, but a large and growing percentage do not, allowing some of the balance to carry over to the next billing cycle, incurring upwards of 20% or more interest! Some even pay only the minimum suggested to keep the collection process at bay – this figure leads to maximization of the total interest the cardholder will eventually pay to the bank that has, in effect, loaned him or her enough money to buy lunch… or gas… or movie tickets… or even subway rides. As above, so below, when it comes to debt-consciousness. In effect then, our entire retail economy and large segments of wholesale purchases carries a “vig” of 2% or more on average; that is, 2%, say, on about $6 Trillion in retail sales and 25% or more than that in wholesale/raw-materials sales. The interest cost on costs of goods, is approaching $200 Billion. Where does that money go, one wonders? We’re all paying for it.
The once-strong thread of thrift and sacrifice has
disappeared, leaving all of us – and our supposedly “rich” nation, indebted for
life, our children’s lives, their children’s lives and the lives of further
generations than they. What an
inheritance.
Suffice to say that our nation is adrift. One political party/movement: liberal,
progressive, socialist, Democrat, is prostrating itself before the twin altars
of unrestricted abortion and legalizing drugs and other crimes, and the altar
of outsiders: non-citizens unwilling to provide for themselves or to follow our
most basic national laws. The other is
tripping over its shoelaces trying to remain relevant to media that share the
liberal, progressive, socialist, Democrat viewpoints – and philosophies – while
trying to overcome 60 years of feckless education (also liberal, progressive,
socialist, Democrat-leaning) that has separated 3 generations of Americans from
their history, heritage and founding majesty.
Politicizing, even codifying, every feeling and hatred, has
not rendered ours a happier or more cohesive society. Indeed, it is not even “fairer.” Politics that channels hatreds requires the
aggravation of envy and jealousy; it requires the accentuation of differences
between groups rather than between individuals.
So-called “identity politics” leads to identifying each group’s enemies
and resisting, if not attacking them.
Civility as a tool for nation-building is not simply unemployed, it is
mocked.
When differences between individuals is dealt with – usually
in small, civil steps – what usually develops is an understanding of how much
more similar they/we are, than different. Individuals don’t usually hurl epithets at
unrelated, unconnected individuals, it takes a mob mentality to do so, and then
it is done in order to or because of some perceived membership in a mob-hated group.
Civility, and civilization itself, takes work, commonality, leadership,
both individual and social. A
Constitutional Republic like the United States is based on individual, not
group responsibility; it is based on self-control and individual
responsibility, not group control or group responsibility. Keep this distinction in mind. One need not be Christian to appreciate that
the New Testament was a covenant with individuals and not with tribes or
peoples. Ours is a “Christian” nation in
that our Constitution enables individual success and failure, and individual
responsibility to one’s community, family and self for the consequences of
one’s actions… and, perhaps, to God.
During a recent conversation, Prudence opined on the new trends of “body art” and unusual piercings, increasingly involving the bodies of young women. It has something to do with both feminism and socialism, Prudence suggests, and this view has caused demands for substantial clarification. Indeed. This line of reasoning could lead to a unified theory of wrong directions and unnecessary complexity.
Life is a test… a series of tests: momentary, hourly, daily, situationally – from birth to death. Humans, LIKE ALL LIVING THINGS, become stronger, more honest, more independent, by facing tests and “passing” them. What is the greatest dis-honesty, therefore?
It is denial of the test. It is humans’ penchant for convincing themselves that they might avoid the testing (which is the spiritual aspect of life) coupled with the denial of spirituality, itself. These fundamentals lead to lifetimes of failure, unfulfillment and even to widening circles of tragedy for other humans, particularly people the unfulfilled try to “love.” On the other hand, those tragedies are also tests that may be passed, leading to strength and growth.
Stated more simply, the worst lie is that which one tells to him or herself. We are in an odd time where such lies are celebrated, promulgated, codified and made, legally, into community-wide lies that form the new bases for anti-discrimination criminality. The hot one is trans-genderism. We call it an “ism” because it derives from belief and not from reality. Under it males tell themselves that they are females, in the preponderance of instances, and females tell themselves that they are males. It is the penultimate denial of human testing there could be.
It isn’t the absolute worst, any longer, because here and there are humans who tell themselves that they are not human, and who seek “rights” as this or that animal… often a dog: humans like dogs.
But, declaring oneself to not be what one is requires holding two conflicting ideas at once, ultimately leading, for most, to mental breakdown. This is not to say that some are not “happy” to be living outwardly as the opposite gender, but they are the minority. Still, they deserve their own happiness and other humans should not disrupt it. But the truth is that gender cannot be changed, only masked. Individuals who are emotionally secure may be happier adopting the mask. It is their mask, and by its artifice the individual attempts to avoid or deny the testing that his or her gender would otherwise face.
So, some would ask, what’s wrong with that? Lots of people avoid tests. We have an entire welfare system that purports to “help” them do so. And this shows the intersection of socialism as a construct of lies and the increasing lies of sexuality that some fight for as forms of “progress.” Both are means of test-avoidance, test denial, and both tend to leave the denier weaker spiritually.
What has this to do with tattoos and piercings? Both are forms of masks, are they not? Even homosexuality is a mask. It doesn’t mean individuals are not “happy” living as not being tested as a man or as not being tested as a woman, but it does mean they have made a choice to not face tests of emotion and feelings of one sort, and the growth their passing would provide. Because of anti-discrimination rules, declaring oneself homosexual means avoiding tests as either one’s gender or as one’s new identity.
In the 1950’s and 1960’s a big form of masking was hair. Girls would shave their heads or apply odd colors to their hair, for example, daring others to react to the change. In that way, at least temporarily, they could step out of the role of “woman” and be tested on the most ephemeral aspects of being rather than facing the tests of female growth and honesty. Boys at the same time would grow their hair to great lengths or shagginess, altering their “aura” as it were, too. Any troubles that came their way over rebellious hairstyling were deemed preferable to those that were associated with maturing in the role of “man.” Test denial. It’s what socialism promises to whole populations, inherently including a denial of spirituality.
In the midst of the “sexual revolution” last century, society, institutions and families fairly consistently encouraged the reality of acceptance of one’s role as man or woman. Most youngsters “grew out of” their odd experiments. Not all, though. By the mid-seventies several large trends were underway:
1. Welfare was federalized and entrenched under the “Great Society.”
2. Feminism was aggressively undoing traditional roles and family structures.
3. Leftist media were celebrating their successful castration of the Vietnam War
and all efforts against Communism that it represented.
4. Leftist media were celebrating the destruction of Richard Nixon, a flawed
conservative at best, over relatively minor crimes.
5. Attacks against organized religion were becoming normalized even as churches
themselves were corroding innocence within their ranks.
6. The Federal Reserve was prosecuting economic policies without regard to
elections or even office holders like presidents in the exercise of new powers
elected representatives could not grasp or counter.
7. Homosexuality was exploding in Western societies.
8. Black families were disintegrating with the help of federalized welfare.
9. Faith in the American idea was fading as quickly as American History curricula.
America is reaping the corrupt crops, now, from mutated seeds sown for fifty years. Youth are in favor of socialism, politicians are proud of it while other politicians flail about in their quest for proper rebuttals to socialist mendacity. Just like homosexuality and its ragged cousin, transgenderism, socialism requires believers to hold, and defend, two diametrically conflicting ideas at once.
Socialism intends two conflicting outcomes: 1) People will become better humans by virtue of changes in their physical surroundings and LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY; 2) If people fail to become higher-quality people thanks to socialism, socialists-in-charge will happily control them until they do.
Prudence’s correspondent had recently visited the waiting room of a plastic surgery and facial reconstruction practice and was struck by the number of quite young people, mostly females, who were there for recuperative follow-ups for various procedures. This, too, is a trend: Young people are having one or multiple procedures done to, they, hope, cause fulfillment of a physical image that is more pleasing, more acceptable, more attractive to society. That is to say, they are living out a dream of comparison to others rather than living on purpose.
Just like body arts or fanatical workouts, plastic surgery provides a mask that the wearer believes is more ”beautiful” than the innate self; this work, often painful, is endured in lieu of making ones inner, true self more attractive or charitable or loving. It is a personal dose of socialism whereby the physical or worldly appearance forms its own replacement spirituality and belief structure. There is no surprise that such shallow, literal children are unable to discern the corrosiveness of socialism. It is no wonder that socialists, and most progressives, are not nearly as happy as conservatives whose belief structures are based in spirituality that leads them to accept and pass tests in reality.
Changing ones physique or physiognomy to fulfill the expectations of society is a means of sidestepping true tests in life. Like the long hairs of the ‘60’s, others will deal with the mask rather than the real person and, it is hoped, the tests associated with the original person will never need passing. Growth is avoided.
Perhaps the most anti-spiritual, test-denial of all is abortion. Despite playing a role in conception of new human life, women have been convinced that the tests of motherhood may be avoided and that they will be more happy and fulfilled as a result. Indeed, not only have they the right to avoid those tests, but all of society, through government theft of others’ earnings, ought to support that avoidance. Perhaps there is less stress temporarily, but little happiness obtains.
Instead of accepting the tests of womanhood and motherhood and the concurrent civilizing of more animalistic males, females are encouraged to exist untested and to a degree, unfulfilled and incomplete. Obviously many of these women will see a logic to socialism and to government “nannyism” throughout their lives. Who needs men in that future? Socialism destroys humanity and abject feminism is socialism’s handmaid. How bleak.
The constant undermining and outright attacking of Christianity feeds socialism’s ascension to acceptability. Not the old testament, but the new, defines man’s relationship to God as personal and an individual responsibility – not as one of God’s chosen people, but as God’s chosen person, responsible to him or her self and to God to take the energy of life provided, and to multiply it by learning and following the rules laid out in dozens of religious traditions.
There is no room for the spiritual in socialism. Socialism is based on groups and denies individual greatness. The infection of education by socialism is obvious in the moves to eliminate valedictorians and salutatorians, or to have multiples of each. Another is to avoid “F’s” or other negative marking, to give everyone a trophy, to (claim to) not keep score in youth sports. One can also observe the same rot supplanting historical knowledge resulting in America’s being no more exceptional than literally every other nation. Rampant egalitarianism provides another patine of legitimacy: no one can earn more, be more worthy, honorable or valuable than the rest. Apparently, only government officials are permitted to be smarter than others, or more morally pure.
Ultimately, Socialism is the avoidance of human tests and, essentially, the avoidance of personal growth. Humans become stronger by overcoming adversity – everything from discomfort, to hunger, to tyranny and lack of freedom. We call the triumph over adversity, “freedom,” not the avoidance of it.
Avoiding adversity is a form of self-subjugation, leaving the subject/practitioner in a jail of his or her own making: less and less likely to ever overcome adverse circumstances. Dependence is the only result. Dependents are the most malleable of clays for the potters of socialism who are more than willing to offer ever more complete avoidance of tests, gaining perpetual power for themselves. Perhaps this little essay is testing the reader, right now.
The alligators are circling and the Democrats are circling at the same time. The former are circling the Trump administration and the presidency, itself; the latter are circling the cesspool drain of socialism. Both the alligators of the “deep,” or now referenced, “steady” state, and the Democrats/neo-Socialists use the same set of tactics: Fascism.
“Oh, no,” you might say, “Fascism is a tool of the far-right and of White supremacists (whoever they are), and the left tries to fight them off!” Well.
You, the alligators and the Democrat left are confused. Fascism is a tool of the left. You have been taught the opposite, but a simple reading of history instructs us that we need to properly define Left and Right, perhaps starting with a change of terms. The left has changed the meaning of words repeatedly, but again, let’s use the right terms for Left and Right. “Liberal,” after all, described the colonists who fought against the British crown – which was “right” and which “left?”
Let’s consider that one trend in history, indeed the most common trend by far, is toward tyrannical control of people and economies. The alternative, individual liberty and actual democracy, is rarer, and, in combination with republicanism, more so. These two large trends can, roughly, describe almost every organized nation, today, and even the United Nations organization. Here’s where the permanence of word definitions becomes crucial. For our discussion Prudence suggests that “Liberty” be the direction of one trend, the rarer one, and “Tyranny… no, too pejorative a term… Control” be the direction of the more common trend throughout history. Societies and nations are on either a path toward greater individual liberty or toward greater centralized control.
On the liberty path we mark events like the invention of democracy, attributed to the Greeks; the Roman Senate, Christianity – which is not to say the Catholic or any other church unequivocally – the Renaissance, the Magna Carta, the English parliament, the Reformation of Martin Luther, the U. S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other key amendments, the Civil War, World War II and the breakup of the Soviet Union. An incomplete list, certainly, but milestones nonetheless.
The story of control has always been marked by stronger over weaker people, conquest, kings, caesars and czars. As economic freedom and rights to private property took hold, the rise of socialism, always lurking but strengthened by unchecked economic inequality, became widespread enough in the 1800’s to create the dominant political forces of the 1900’s, including fascism and its ugly brother, communism. The new colossus, America, was not and is not immune from their blandishments.
We cannot examine our current status and our future, without recognizing the organizing morals of religion, and the educational value of churches. For “western” civilization the chief organizing moral structure has been, first, Judaism and the Old Testament, and then Christianity and the New Testament. The result of the long sweep of the Old Testament was to usher in the New and the examples and teachings of Jesus, the Christ. It is not one path, it is two, the second of which proclaims an individual relationship with God, and individual responsibility, as well. No longer was the story of God’s chosen people told about groups, but about individuals. No longer was the possibility of ascension into Heaven reserved for a handful of prophets, but it was made the business of every person. It was no longer an arcane secret, but instead the path was described and illustrated by Jesus, himself: “Greater things than I have done you shall do because I go unto the Father.”
Okay, enough of that. Let’s at least agree that Jesus’ teaching was that every individual was responsible for his or her own salvation or refusal of salvation. The doors of heaven were open to every person not committed to or consumed by evil… and each of us is responsible for the path he or she chooses – not so different from the Old Testament lessons, but personalized. It is the fundament of the Constitution and the concept of liberty, itself, and at no time divorced from responsibility: “As ye sow, so shall (must) ye reap.”
We can’t sow lies and expect honesty and truth to spring forth, for example.
Does this background inform the present? Prudence suggests that it does. Which actors are motivated by the desire to control individuals and their economic circumstances? Are they not “Democrat Socialists?” How do they propose to exert control?
The methods and tools are a very long list, but here are the most obvious ways:
Universal health care, or “single payer” or “Medicare for all.”
Comprehensive gun control.
Lower education standards for American history.
Nationalized Welfare.
Aggravated racial tensions.
Paid “antifa” thugs.
Those should be enough to show the direction that the left is taking, none of which is strengthening for the United States.
At first it is hard to understand why Democrats of today would be so fired up about the short list of 6 tactics, above. It is because they are socialists and socialism is about control and little else. You can see from the lowered education tactic that socialism’s resistance to the American experiment in individual sovereignty is not new, and if it must take 3 or 5 or a hundred generations, liberty’s ugly plans must be thwarted. The only defense against socialism is an alert, educated, self-disciplined citizenry… one that shares basic moral codes.
We can’t deny that Judeo-Christianity has informed our entire legal code and common-law bases for organizing this amazingly successful (western) civilization. We need not delve into matters of faith to recognize the practicality and reinforcing values of our legal traditions. It is informative that lately all things Christian are derogated and mocked, attacked, in fact. At the same time government and education institutions remove themselves from moral guidance or enforcement and even punish expressions of Christian values.
In the streets and in current politics, resistance to laws and their enforcement – and to their enforcers – is rampant, and deadly. These are socialists and fascists who are tearing down our legal and moral codes. Socialism lives on rules that society needs our wonderful governors to enforce (fulfilling the control instinct) since non-elite people cannot be expected to do almost anything correctly without them. This includes raising of children, imbuing them with morals, teaching them how to strive and excel, instructing them on proper relationships with and respect for the opposite sex, economic responsibility for oneself and one’s family, preparing them for independence and enlightening them with patriotism. These are all responsibilities of a benign, socialist government, after all.
When the Founders assembled the Constitution from the greatest civil organizing philosophies of freedom, they initiated a unique challenge to the prevailing organizing principles of tyranny, monarchy and theocracy. No other nation had attempted the creation of a government based on the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. In the process, and following a bitter fight against arguably the most powerful empire in the world at that time, the “American Dream” was born. It is little understood today, but is defined by “E pluribus unum.” America – the United States – would be a nation where all kinds and origins of people can form a nation, live and work together under a regime of personal responsibility and shared morality, self-discipline and individual civic sovereignty. Remarkable, and the diametric opposite of socialist diffusion of responsibility – and morality.
Socialism is by origin and intent a system without spirituality. Every one of its tenets presumes that human-devised, rules-based micro-management will yield a better society than religious or faith-based moral structures have or ever will. Socialism, by definition, is antithetical to Constitutional republicanism, and this fact illustrates why socialists have been pressing socialist “solutions” to civic and economic problems in the U. S. since the post-Civil War era, an effort that gained strength with each World War, the Depression and the “Civil Rights” movements. The skids were greased by Lyndon Johnson, Ted Kennedy and “Watergate.”
Now we are faced with one of our two major political parties celebrating resistance to laws and to law enforcement, even as it cries for more regulation from a massive, unmanageable government. What sort of political future… what sort of governing future do its members foresee? Are they anticipating a society with better cohesiveness, or lower crime rates, perhaps? By what mechanisms shall order be assured after dozens, if not hundreds of crimes are deemed un-prosecutable? Even now attorneys general are fighting federal authorities in many jurisdictions; many candidates for those offices are campaigning on their willingness to overlook criminal prosecutions they don’t like. How, indeed, will order be ensured?
Disorder is far from the socialist model… control is its bedrock. These same who agitate and cry for legal disorder, swoon for ultra-left socialist candidates and for ‘antifa,’ itself. It is the grand disorder of freedom that they hate… the majesty of it left in the hands of a moral, independent people. We are socialism’s enemy and socialism is ours, if we have the mind to understand and the heart to defend, our Constitution.
We cannot sow socialism and expect freedom and individual liberty to spring forth.
