We Still Have An Historic Lifestyle

The historic [life] style is founded upon accumulated experience of mankind, and in the United States is influenced by our Puritan heritage. It has many characteristics, and those which are most cherished are the ones against which the young rebel with most vigor.  For example, the traditional style is based on a belief in God as manifested through organized churches. It respects authority. It is patriotic and sponsors a deep regard for the military, in which a large proportion of our population has served at one time or another. It believes that men lead happier lives they practice thrift, charity and personal responsibility. It believes that honest work is good for a man and preaches allegiance to the firm for which one works. It believes in the sanctity of the home (unless where divorce is necessary) and respect for elders (unless they become a burden). One of its basic tenets has always been a naive and beautiful faith in universal education, not merely as a tool for getting ahead but as a way to attain a good life. Finally, it has adhered to conservative modes of dress, speech, music and ornamentation.

At least ninety percent of the American population subscribes to this traditional life style and considers it flexible enough to accommodate anyone willing to give it a fair test. It can be summed up in a series of aphorisms: “A man’s word is as good as his bond If a man works he’ll get ahead. America has usually tried to do the right thing. Get an education and you can accomplish anything. God is watching.”

James A. Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why [1971], pg. 63

I would say this is still the traditional lifestyle and those types who rejected this in 1971 are still the same types who reject it now. They want to “rebel against the system” the same way they did in 1971—aggressively and sometimes with violence. They are typically anti-law enforcement. Their sexual morals are about as bad as they can get. That will always be the way the “woke” LEFT operates. They hated the USA then and hate it now.

Pushing Hate

We are among the biggest fools in history if we keep on paying people to make us hate each other.  Whether it is called by pretty names like “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” or “gender awareness,” that is what it all boils down to.

Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

Western Civilization Going Down Hill

Historically, Western civilization — rooted in Christianity layered atop Greco-Roman thought — held that moral truth is objective, individuals are responsible for cultivating virtue, and justice flows from doing what is right rather than merely equalizing outcomes: first define the good, then pursue justice. Over the last century, that order has steadily reversed. Today, many institutions operate on the assumption that whatever feels equitable or balances group outcomes is therefore moral, even when achieving that “fairness” requires deception, coercion, collective punishment, or the abandonment of long-standing norms.

Trying to frame it a little tighter, the best I can do is to say I believe Western civilization is quietly moving from a moral system grounded in virtue and objective good to one grounded in outcomes and perceived fairness. When fairness is severed from moral truth, it becomes a tool of power rather than justice.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

Objective Morality is Disappearing

Historically, Western civilization — rooted in Christianity layered atop Greco-Roman thought — held that moral truth is objective, individuals are responsible for cultivating virtue, and justice flows from doing what is right rather than merely equalizing outcomes: first define the good, then pursue justice. Over the last century, that order has steadily reversed. Today, many institutions operate on the assumption that whatever feels equitable or balances group outcomes is therefore moral, even when achieving that “fairness” requires deception, coercion, collective punishment, or the abandonment of long-standing norms.

Trying to frame it a little tighter, the best I can do is to say I believe Western civilization is quietly moving from a moral system grounded in virtue and objective good to one grounded in outcomes and perceived fairness. When fairness is severed from moral truth, it becomes a tool of power rather than justice.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

Our Convoluted Culture

We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transsexuals lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights, communists lecture us on economics, and satanists lecture us on religion.

Anonymous post on Facebook.

The LEFT’s Normalizing Deviant Behavior

What prompts a person to have a bull-like nose ring? Even if the chances are low, why risk incurring an infection, a septal hematoma (broken blood vessels), an allergic reaction to the metals in the piercing, or scarring? Why risk developing a blood disease, including hepatitis B and C, HIV, and tetanus, from an unsterilized needle? Why risk bumping into something and hitting a nerve, potentially causing permanent damage? And how, exactly, does one effectively handle a runny nose?

How long before the advocates of “anything goes” seek to normalize nose rings so that no one should be aghast when someone in a public position has one? So, why not doctors and nurses, police officers, firefighters, postal workers, and, for good measure, elementary school teachers? …. 

One of the two major political parties seeks to normalize human behavior, which, in a saner society, might be a sorely needed topic of discussion and derision. This political party employs a variety of tactics, such as the renaming of issues. Consider pedophiles. They are attracted to children and would like to groom them, have sex with them, perhaps keep them as sexual slaves, and ensure that they stay silent.

Pedophiles revel in having children at their beck and call, for years on end, if possible. Leftists now refer to pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons.” Voila! You are no longer a predator if you seek to have sex with a child. You're a “minor-attracted person.” It's a lifestyle! It's a choice! Some people opt for it; most don't. It's no big deal!

Once a notable segment of society opens Pandora’s Box and proceeds as if dubious behavior is normal, there’s no end to it. A case in point: The fat acceptance movement is growing in the U.S. With two-thirds of adults now either obese or morbidly obese, and the number growing all the time, it was inevitable that fat acceptance would ‘inch’ forward.

Jeff Davidson, Normalizing Deviant and Unhealthy Behavior

The LEFT''s Desire to Destroy America

It’s no secret that the left wishes for the destruction of the American people. Mass Third World migration, abortion on demand, and the transgender insanity all represent policies pointed toward that end. Tearing down statues also represents an attempt to destroy the American people, to sever the links between the American people and their forefathers.

Hayden Daniel, The Left’s Real Target In Its Latest Attack On Robert E. Lee Is America Itself

Why the USA is Dying

 

A Civilization Denying Moral Truth

We are watching a civilization decide whether it still believes in moral truth at all. A culture that abandons virtue for outcomes, truth for narrative, and conscience for consensus does not drift gently into decline; it slides into something colder and harder, where power masquerades as compassion and coercion is baptized as care. Once “fairness” replaces goodness, literally anything becomes permissible in its name.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

We Still Need the Declaration Of Independence

When human will becomes sovereign, unencumbered by nature and divorced from God, we are left with movements—people organized to impose their will on their adversaries. This is the terminal product of historicist philosophy and modern social science: the war, not of all against all, but of movement against movement.

At the bottom of the rot is a set of doctrines that have remade the American government and are remaking the society. These doctrines are the abnegation of the Declaration of Independence. Under these doctrines there are no truths that last, no commands from above that must be obeyed. There is only what people do to one another, and by this process they shape the society and each other. What they ought to do does not enter into it.

Today’s Firestorm and the Declaration, by Larry P. Arnn. Imprimis 11/25, Volume 54/Issue 11

What Culture Has Become

Gloria Steinem attributes the feminist saying, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” to a 22-year-old Australian, Irina Dunn,… Such ignorance leaves boys free to become useless wimps or dangerous predators. It leaves too many women to themselves even if they wish to face the fulfilling trial of children. Little wonder we are not reproducing even at a replacement level. Little wonder that so many boys and girls gravitate toward different, if ultimately indistinguishable, wastelands.

Today’s Firestorm and the Declaration, by Larry P. Arnn. Imprimis 11/25, Volume 54/Issue 11

Is God Dead?

People tend to misunderstand Nietzsche’s “God is dead” comment by taking it at face value, but his warning was a bit more pointed — famously warning that once Christianity lost cultural authority, Europe would become irrational and inhumane — it would become morally unmoored. Without transcendent standards, moral language survives but becomes raw power dressed up as compassion. He predicted the rise of what he called slave morality: resentment reframed as justice.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

How LEFTISTs Ruined Education

Around 1900, the Progressives effectively scuttled the very idea that we should look to the past for insights about anything—certainly for education. Progressives built a “history-phobic” value system into our social studies mind-set. Old is yesterday. Old is irrelevant. Old is outdated. Progressives sunk the very idea that we could or should look to the past for insights about how to live or learn. This is why few, if any, modern public or Christian schools study much history before America’s founding.

Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.90-91

Western Civilization Values Found in the Bible

Western civilization is not based on industrialization. Rather, it is founded on accepting and integrating the values found in the Bible—both the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. At the most basic level, this includes the Ten Commandments, the Torah, and the many teachings of Jesus: the rejection of enslaving other human beings; acting rightly and righteously; and, most clearly, recognizing the difference between good and evil and fighting evil whenever it raises its ugly head.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

When LEFT and Right Share

Today our modern vision of the good life has been nearly universally transformed into the freedom of personal choice, control of your identity, being accepted for who you are, finding adventure, and creating your own path in life. For children of the Left, a slight supplemental variation includes finding meaning in particular causes, like climate change, gender identity, and so-called anti-racism. For children of the right—mostly Christian—they find some small portion of the good life in patriotism and personal faith. But both modern groups—the Left and the Right—roughly share the same modern vision.

Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg. 45

Don't Forget Traditions & History

 

Christian Families Best For Culture

Stable natural families would be, by far, the best anti-poverty, anti-crime, and pro-education program. Thus, Christian sexual morality is integral to social justice because it protects and promotes family formation and flourishing. It is not an idiosyncratic or arbitrary religious decree or practice but, instead, is rooted in human nature and ordered toward our good and the good of those around us. Its truth and beauty are manifest in loving and enduring relationships, grounded on oaths sworn and upheld, rather than the fickle flux of day-to-day desires. This commitment provides a solid foundation for an enduring intimacy between man and wife.

Nathanael Blake, Why Prudes Are The Only Ones Consistently Having Good Sex

Our Cultural Crisis

Much of our society’s current crisis derives from this personal refusal or inability to respect the property of others, to tell the truth, to stand up to the bully, to protect the weaker, and to end each day in contemplation that you were more a moral force for the common good than either a neutral observer or on the wrong side of the ethical ledger. When individual behavior and decorum falter, so does a country, which is, after all, only the common reflection of millions of its individuals.

Imprimis, Victor Davis Hanson, American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address.

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