If you look at all the crazy things going on in our country you would be excused for thinking that all that is necessary to fix our problems is removing all of the leftists from power.\u00a0 You might think that if we had fifty Governor DeSantises and people like him running our cities and in Congress that everything would go back to normal.\u00a0 I think I used to believe that either consciously or unconsciously.\u00a0 All we needed was good leaders and everything would revert to a normal world.\u00a0 I no longer believe that to be the case.<\/p>\n
Our world has drifted very far from a healthy pattern.\u00a0 We could probably spend eternity debating what were the causes of this drift.\u00a0 Some people would point all the way back to the Enlightenment and the dethroning of religion as the center of human life in the West.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s true.\u00a0 Other people point to the emancipation of women as the spark that destroyed the family and led us to the place we are now.\u00a0 I think cases could be made for a number of causes for what has happened to our world.<\/p>\n
The point I want to make is that some kind of change is going to have to happen.\u00a0 And either we are going to make these changes ourselves or nature will fix them for us.\u00a0 An example of what happens when you let your society degenerate would be the end of the classical world.\u00a0 The Western Roman Empire was toppled by German tribesmen who realized just how feeble the Roman state had become.\u00a0 And a few hundred years later the Eastern Roman Empire was almost completely swept away by the armies of Arabia galvanized by a fundamentalist religion that gave meaning and order to their lives.<\/p>\n
Something very similar will happen to our world unless we step back and restore sanity to the way we live.\u00a0 Our institutions have to stop propagandizing our youth as to the value and desirability of living a secularized and sterile existence that eschews marriage and children.\u00a0 The idea that it is acceptable and even preferred to adopt an identity that puts you at odds with biological reality is madness.\u00a0 And all the other LGBTQ lifestyles must also be identified as deviancy that doesn\u2019t merit celebration but at most pity and possibly tolerance if it isn\u2019t allowed to corrupt the youth.<\/p>\n
And these are just the negative aspects of our society that must be addressed.\u00a0 At the same time, changes must be enacted to amplify society\u2019s effect on the positive behaviors we want to encourage.\u00a0 Our government must support the formation and flourishing of families.\u00a0 If a man and a woman are raising up children the government should be doing everything it can to maximize the odds that they will create good, well-adjusted and productive people.\u00a0 The tax laws and the social safety net should be primarily focused on these people.\u00a0 Everything should be done to allow young women to stay home with their children during those formative years.\u00a0 And this shouldn\u2019t be done just because it is helpful to the child-rearing task but also because raising a family is the most fulfilling occupation that two people can hope to have.\u00a0 And a young mother at home with her young children is the necessary center of such a family.\u00a0 Without her it is an incomplete and confused fragment of what a family should be.\u00a0 A poor family with a mother at home has its struggles.\u00a0 But even a rich family without a mother at home is unbalanced and often unhappy.\u00a0 The children feel the lack but don\u2019t know what they\u2019re missing.<\/p>\n
And there are so many things about our society that are unhealthy and dangerous.\u00a0 The complete disappearance of religion from our daily life and the normalizing of unhealthy obsessions like drugs and pornography have destroyed countless young lives.\u00a0 All of these things are justified by our fetish with freedom.\u00a0 A re-evaluation on the limits of freedom is painfully overdue.<\/p>\n
And if society doesn\u2019t start making these changes very soon, then as I said at the beginning of this rant, nature will do it for us.\u00a0 Or more accurately, do it for our successors that live in healthier cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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