Curtis Dahlgren
June 2, 2004
Sin without consequences is just a "CON"
By Curtis Dahlgren

"Above this race of [lay]men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.

"For their happiness such a government willingly labours, but it chooses to be the sole agent and only arbiter of that happiness: it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures . . . "

WELL EXCUSE ME for repeating this passage by Tocqueville, again, but it meshes so well with an item you may have heard about the other day from the Australian: Shock research: sex makes us happy. Beyond all the gibberish of this "shocking discovery" is the final line of the story, "Many would regard it as the job of the state to create the conditions that make people happy" [and by extension of logic, facilitate "sex"]!

Leaving aside the obvious question, "Which came first, the happiness or the sex," the real shock here is that Tocqueville prophecied all this somewhere around the year 1800 A.D. (people who are neurotically unhappy to begin with will, no doubt, also lack fulfillment erotically). But as our French friend wrote back then, citizens of a despotic "democracy" put themselves in puppet strings willingly, because they don't see a "dictator" at the other end of their chains, but the "people in general."

To be even more exact, in view of contemporary events, it is becoming more and more common for a Federal judge or five Justices on the Supreme Court to be the ones holding our chains. The entire unspoken premise of Roe v. Wade was that license and hedonism should have no more consequences that stubbing your toe on a sidewalk, even if one must "abort" the "product of conception" at the very last moment, traditional standards of morality and ethics be damned!

In his May 28, 2004 column, David Limbaugh (taken from WorldNetDaily) writes: "Apart from eradicating slavery [in some parts of the world], have we really 'evolved' morally? How can we possibly be improving ourselves morally when we have moved into the nihilistic postmodern age, characterized by its outright rejection of absolute moral standards?

"Who are we trying to fool? Instead of becoming more moral, we are just redefining terms and standards to accomodate our addiction to licentiousness and our shameful repudiation of personal responsibility and accountability. If we don't like to live within certain standards we instinctively know are beneficial, healthy and morally sound, fine, we'll just change the standards.

"What surprises me is not the cultural pressure to abandon traditional values, but the lame resistance of traditionalists. Apathy is one thing, but rolling over without a fight is quite another."

I highlighted that excerpt, but Limbaugh goes on to say that "More significant than either complicity or ignorance, though, is our acute moral negligence, which is probably born of our cowardice. That is, we are often unwilling to stand up for what we know is right . . . because we don't have the courage to withstand the ridicule of the politically correct thought police.

"How many times have we all declined to state our true opinion on a moral issue not out of a noble desire to be inoffensive or gracious, but because we didn't want to take the heat or wanted to avoid being stigmatized as a homophobe or narrow-minded bigot?"

Yes, how many times, haven't we "all"? Our highly paid professors and "graduate assistants" have been using the art of peer blackmail for over 50 years in their attempt to re-engineer the unique American culture in their own image, and the latest "ruling" against the ban on Partial-birth abortion is only one of dozens of other battlegrounds on which the "Silent Majority" has acquiesced, not by retreat, but by the failure to show (i.e., by forfeit).

If this engineering, which is essentially anti-Americanism, were only being promoted at privately funded colleges and universities, Tradition could only honor the "free thought" (however pathetic); when blatant brainwashing is, however, carried on at taxpayer-funded institutions of "Higher Learning," it is much more akin to grand larceny.

We conservatives are implicitly and explicitly told to shut up and not rock the boat in this so-called "wave of the future"! Who is kidding whom? If the Bolshevists couldn't erase religion from Russian culture in 70 years of absolute political power, naive is the social engineer who thinks amorality is an unstoppable tidal wave!

In their hearts they may secretly suspect the uselessness of their cause, but the social revolutionaries are not going to "give up the fight" when so many of us refuse to pick up the gauntlet. They purport to be for "plurality" and "tolerance" while in actuality they are the ones selling "divisiveness" and a world-view that imposes moral relativism as the only "appropriate" mode of thinking.

The term "THOUGHT POLICE" is not one that is used loosely here. You can only tell the true thought police with a scorecard: they're the ones preaching "teamwork" and non-competitiveness in the public schools, an absolute abolishment of moral absolutes, and (in general) just widespread CONFUSION.

Let those of us who are "sleeping in" through the culture war let them know that the jig is up, the party's over, and their false king is dead. Checkmate!

© Curtis Dahlgren

 

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Curtis Dahlgren

Curtis Dahlgren is semi-retired in the frozen tundra of Michigan's U.P., and is the author of "Massey-Harris 101." His career has had some rough similarities to one of his favorite writers, Ferrar Fenton... (more)

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