March 20, 2006

A truism is that every generation reminisces about the good old days. As people age they value the past more and develop an enhanced apprehension of cultural changes. Change is the most natural of all conditions, but change is not always positive. Actually, change is more often chaos than real progress.

Secular aspects and influence have forever been a factor in cultural systems. But the velocity that has taken over modern and post-modern eras has seen such rapidity in cultural mores and variations that one's life is indeed a very strange trip through time. Examine the history of the post WWII generation. Baby boomers were born into a world of nuclear extinction. Grew up to watch men walk on the moon and grow old witnessing the disintegration of our entire society.

Some youngsters may not yet appreciate just how far the breakdown in social restraints has become or the negative significance for a future world absent of traditional values. One need not be a bible thumper to understand that the teaching within the Good Book has been the source of the framework that developed Western Civilization. Not everyone views that heritage as noble and desirable. Yet for the vast hordes of the unwashed, those remnants of past glory and defenders of the traditional heritage, the present has become a black hole of secular decadence.

Doubt the reality of cultural bleakness? Examine the quality on songs lauded by that gold plated unisex idol called Oscar. "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" is incorrect. It is easy to be a stud when you live in a Brokeback culture. If Ang Lee's work belongs on the same list as the Best Directors, is this culture worthy of continuation? Track the slide into the cesspool of secular relativity with each passing decade. Reflect upon the taboos that have been destroyed and the kind of society that has emerged from the "Open Society" of cultural nihilism. Quentin Tarantino's Natural Born Killers has gone mainstream in the NeoCon's latest Iraqi war. Instead of killing just Bill, take out an entire country.

Think there is no connection between that secular sacred dogma - The Right To Choose - and the proliferation of the culture of death in preemption foreign adventurism? If you valued the basis of our heritage you would answer that question emphatically in favor of respecting all life. The seeming ambivalence that so many people have in making clear cut moral decisions is a direct result of abandoning the proven tenants of our forefathers and replacing them with a virtual universe of cultural indifference at best and iniquity at its worst.

If social critics wish to protect the emerging gutter society as another stage for achievement in the continued advancement of mankind, then we should all lament that those nukes did not reduce the planet to rubble. Has diversity enhanced self-determination for every individual? Or has it just codified inequality as a permanent condition by forcing true achievers into accepting inferior leaches as equals? Pray be it told, how is it possible to raise people out of their ignorance and dependency when they are told they are equivalent when they are actually deficient.

In the secular milieu black = white, when white is white and black is black. The same applies to gender. Merging natural and distinct roles between the sexes into a uniformed cross dressing melting pot of pluralism, guarantees the social structure to become a cauldron of pig slop. Progressives are enablers in the process of self-destruction when they attempt to apply their guilt driven insecurity and use force to impose their hell on traditional society. Social justice requires individual performance to gain and generate social status and earned respect.

Integration does not produce assimilation. Self-determination is preferable to contrived absorption that has lead to a severely reduced quality of social substance. The secular society seeks to create a diminished social culture by eliminating individual uniqueness and replacing it with a manufactured standard for socially 'PC' acceptance.

In order to restore natural balance in our species, our culture needs to conform to innate rules of reality. The way to reestablish an inborn equilibrium that respects basic human rights for all segments and every individual is to wage a "Renaissance Revolution". The yoke of cultural perversion must be lifted from our necks so that our heads can use their brains to achieve instinctive human distinctive roles in a natural order for society.

James Hall aka SARTRE

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