Traditional Mores Versus Legislated Morality
The fact that a law to prevent teachers from discussing matters of sexual orientation for kids aged five to eight is even necessary substantiates the cultural rot of the American civilization.
How can you tell when your culture, society, and ultimately your civilization, is at risk?
Civilizations begin to crumble when traditional social mores are replaced with legislation passed by dueling political forces.
The fact that a law in Florida to prevent teachers from discussing matters of sexual orientation for kids aged five to eight is even necessary substantiates the cultural rot of the American civilization. That law was followed by the President of the United States announcing he had the Justice Department send a letter to all state attorneys general warning that they could be violating civil rights laws if they keep minors from receiving “gender-affirming care.”
It also represents the real possibility the US population has lost the ability to self-govern.
John Adams famously wrote that our Constitution is only fit for a “moral and religious people”.
The people must be stronger in their own morality than the government or we wind up in this duel between opposing forces of good versus evil.
That’s what Adams was talking about.
Perhaps you are familiar with the C.S. Lewis quote that “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
It is no secret that the most heinous of evils have been vested on people in the name of the good. Often people with good intentions do the worst evils.
About a year ago, I noted that humans have the capacity for the greatest good and the most hideous evil. Such was, is and shall always be the dichotomy of the human condition.
The crisis with which we are confronted today is very simple – where the strong internally validate themselves based on their compliance to their own morals and principles, unprincipled, amoral weak people are looking for external validation of themselves. That is why we must be forced to recognize hundreds of different “genders”, acknowledge that thin-skinned student progressives need “safe spaces” – it is why people seek to enforce validation of certain behaviors by force of law. It is why they find it critically important to be given the imprimatur of government.
In his last book, “The Fatal Conceit”, F.A. Hayek stated:
“To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection — the comparative increase of population and wealth — of those groups that happened to follow them. The unwitting, reluctant, even painful adoption of these practices kept these groups together, increased their access to valuable information of all sorts, and enabled them to be ‘fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it’ (Genesis 1:28). This process is perhaps the least appreciated facet of human evolution.”
America, as a nation, is leaking freedom because many of our citizens are losing the ability to self-govern.
America, as a people, is rapidly moving away from governance constructed of people capable of self-governance based on spiritual laws, to a society governed by malleable human laws enforced with Orwellian interpretation and draconian efficiency, and as we do, corruption, rather than conscience, becomes the motivating force.
The Biden administration has accelerated America’s stumble toward the absurdity necessary to create a progressive state into a downhill, dead run. If you do not belief this is true, think about their policies that promote body altering, life destroying surgeries for young children, humans who are too immature to decide what they want for dinner.
Progressives always promise freedom and equality to the people, but history proves that they always default to coercion and tyranny to control the people. Human nature can never be overcome by an external system as the progressives (communists) claim, it can only be subdued from inside through a spiritual conversion that provides self-control
Social mores, the norms set by society, largely for behavior and appearance, that are often dictated by society's values, ethics, and religious influences, are the greatest element in self-governance. It is the voice of a conscience that constantly asks us that if we can do a thing, SHOULD we do that thing?
If you don’t understand why inculcating a 5-year-old about the fine points of transgenderism is inappropriate and wrong, and you think of it as career counseling, you should really be thinking about your own values and motives.
When society reduces itself to a battle of legislated mores, we should recognize what that means beyond the tactical effect of those laws.
The radical left’s real goal is the complete destruction of American culture, its society, and ultimately, the very civilization that protects the freedoms they choose to destroy.
Remember this: No person is capable of governing other people if first they cannot govern themselves.
I'd like to meet the child psychiatrists and psychologists who believe sexualizing 5-8 year old children is in their best interest. And the school boards who would promote such horrific views.
This guy is spot on, and right in line with what you wrote Michael.
"What Christopher Rufo did to expose Critical Race Theory, Libs of TikTok is doing to expose what leftists are fighting to turn our schools into – a gender-bending science experiment where “progressives” seem to be doing and saying things about gender simply to see if they can get away with it. Horrifyingly, they have been able to, at least so far.
If you’re some demented, entitled weirdo with more metal pieces in your face than in your car, there’s a good chance you have a TikTok account. The Communist Chinese spy app is heroin for narcissists with a desperate need for external validation. You’d have to be an idiot to use something China created to spy on you with, hence why so many of these “TikTok celebrities” have an IQ just south of their shoe size."
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/04/03/to-protect-kids-we-need-to-fire-a-lot-of-teachers-n2605415