By Nelson Hultberg.
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1) Collectivist ideologues in the schools teaching moral relativism.
2) Hubristic politicians and bureaucrats in Washington ignoring basic rights.
3) Government monopolization of the banking system that debases the currency.
4) Increasing militarization of federal, state, and local police.
5) A media that plays the role of lap dogs for statism.
These five elements almost always close ranks to support each other. They are of one mind – that capitalism (i.e., freedom) is dangerous. Leaving people alone is dangerous. The marketplace is dangerous. Thus society must be regimented from the top down via ever-increasing “arbitrary law” and “police state controls.”
This process begins in the child’s youth. We have been forming amoral, collectivist minds in our schools ever since the 1920s and John Dewey. As a result, all five of the above elements today (schools, Congress, banks, police, and the media) are comprised of “highly amoral” human beings. This means they have been taught that there is no way to rationally and objectively discern right from wrong with certainty for humans in socio-cultural interaction and in the political vision that is to lead us. In other words, our schools have instilled into our youth for the past century the doctrine of moral relativism.
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Discerning Right from Wrong
But if there is no way to discern right from wrong “rationally” and “objectively” with certainty in life, how then are we as humans to decide how to act? What guides are we to turn to in handling the big issues of life such as laws to pass, business decisions to make, wars to fight, causes to join, love to pursue, youth to motivate, etc? Human nature is such that devoid of a grounding in objective moral truths that are certain, we as humans will act instinctively, i.e., in the way our animalistic natures dictate.
Such a philosophical outlook (which our Deweyite school system has been teaching since the 1920s) leads men not to high-minded enlightenment as its advocates predicted, but back to their barbaric beginnings. It shapes them into lower-form amoral creatures by the time they become adults to go out into the world, which really means they are shaped into, dare one say it, animalistic creatures. The nature of an animal is that it is devoid of the capacity for moral judgment.
We see examples around us everywhere of this descent into “primitive instinctive behavior.” Large swaths of society are now sub-human because of the philosophical teaching of moral relativism. In other words, much of human action is now considered outside the realm of morality, neither good nor evil, as merely “personal preference,” or the “necessary pragmatism” to get things done. As a result, many modern men and women no longer strive to “do the right thing” as Albert Jay Nock wrote about in the early 20th century. Instead they live by their instincts, i.e., their animal natures.
If you think this is hyperbole, how do you explain the swamp of oblivious greed that Wall Street has become? The ruthless power lust that Washington and Congress spin on? The septic sensationalism of Hollywood? The wholesale debasement of culture by our literati? The treasonous sell-out of national sovereignty by our corporate moguls? The source of these evils is moral relativism, which leads to the belief that much of human action is morally neutral, i.e., amoralism.
All of society, of course, is not devolving into amoralism. There are still many courageous men and women who strive to “do the right thing” in their lives defined by moral principle. They have had a strong moral and religious upbringing that has withstood the government schools’ relativism. No society collapses morally in unison. But rapacity and decadence grow among us today like Ebola and Malaria grow among Africans because too many humans in Western societies have been taught moral relativism in their formative years. This is what is propelling us into an American police state.
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