The Irreconcilable Contradiction of a Violent Utopia
In fifty years, American society has transformed from Robin Hood to Robbin' Hood.
Saw today where there was yet another fight at a sporting event, this time it was a women’s college basketball game. This time it was a Big 10 tilt between Michigan and Maryland. It’s not that uncommon now to hear of fights between players, spectators, or parents at pretty much any level of sport, from tee-ball and pewee football to professional sporting events.
I played a lot of organized sports from Little League baseball to high school sports, pickup and intramural games in college, extending to organized tennis, basketball, softball, and even golf (anyone who thinks there is no punching in golf hasn’t watched Happy Gilmore!) as an adult. I’ve also coached kids and called softball and baseball games for kids and adults.
In over 50 years of organized sports, I have never witnessed a single fight between players, anything that involved spectators, parents, or coaches. Players of my generation knew better than to get pushed to the point of violence on or off the field, our coaches simply would not stand for it. Unsportsmanlike conduct was punished at practice by our coaches – and even at home. Fights were seen as damaging to the team and an embarrassment to our families. We were taught to channel that anger into our play, not to let emotion overcome us.
But now the lack of emotional control seems to be everywhere, from sports to everyday living.
For Pete’s sake, I read an article this week about organized carjackers waiting for cars they wanted to roll through the drive through and stealing the cars as they exited the drive through lane. There was also a recent warning about increasing violence on cruise ships!
People have lost any sense of propriety and society offers no curbs, no siderails on any behavior any longer. From random violence on the streets to carjacking to flash mob lootings of stores, anything goes, and punishment rarely is applied these days. When punishment is invoked, it is usually a joke and so light and lenient the perpetrators do not fear it, do not consider it before committing heinous acts and even are unrestrained by the fact they know they will never pay the price for their actions for more than a few hours or days at the taxpayer’s expense.
We can certainly claim that such things are caused by the lack of God and religion in daily life, and we would be right, but God didn’t fall out of favor by Himself, there is a sociopolitical movement, one attached to these ideas of equity, collectivism, and progressivism, that has consistently and constantly worked to remove the influence of God in both society and politics.
This sociopolitical movement teaches if someone has more than you do, they somehow came about it by taking it from someone else, probably you, and there is no such thing as meritocracy or competition, only favoritism and thievery. Over time, the idea has been implanted that if you feel owed, you are justified because the only authority determining your condition are your subjective feelings. Therefore; anything one does to “take back” something even if they never earned it is just fine, it is even the highest aspiration of individuals to be able to take something from someone rather than earn it.
It is sort of a twisted take on the legend of Robin Hood, a hero who took from a corrupt government to give back to the people from whom the governmental largess came in the first place. Today it is the legend of Robbin’ Hood, taking from anyone who has more because society, not government, is corrupt and the reason you have been dealt an unfair hand. Anyone on a lower rung of the ladder of success is justified in taking from anyone, at any time, and for any reason.
And global elites agree and enforce this idea of Robbin’ Hood – from behind their gated communities, their homes with security systems, and under the protection of their personal security teams.
It is certainly the loss of a common moral code enforced by parents, coaches, teachers and even law enforcement.
From whence do these ideas originate?
One really doesn’t need to struggle with the answer.
The American left has been preaching class envy as a virtue rather than a vice for over a half century. They hate God and religion, of course, but even as they preach things that sound like the Ten Commandments, they are championing every one of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, wrath, lust, envy, gluttony, and sloth.
The left promises Utopia by violence, which seems to be the ultimate contradiction.
A person who cannot govern themselves can never govern others.
Those persons who cannot govern their own passions will eventually become enslaved by others.
This is exactly what I believe and have been discussing with my family. Not sure our society is redeemable or not. It's looking like the left is winning.
Just give people under 30 the latest iPhone with TicToc on it and they'll while away their days trying to be an "influencer." They don't want to do anything that takes actual hard work. They just want to increase those view and followers numbers to get monetized.
Of course the lack of God is the major reason for people searching for other ways to find "meaning" whether that means carjacking more cars than their "friends" or acting in ways that were socially unacceptable for prior generations.
God help us all, 🙏