Within the American system, there is legally no root morality, no root culture, no inherent assumption BUT freedom. All of our Constitution is concerned with freedom from tyranny. It was assumed, because in those days it was true, that everyone was quite capable of determining their own moral views, which were normally those associated with religion, and their interpretation of that religion.
America is thus peculiarly vulnerable to an infection of propaganda oriented around “freedom”. All we can assume to share with other Americans is a concern with our laws–or at least a rhetorical concern for our laws, and their underlying assumption of freedom.
What is missed in all this propaganda is that every “right” asserted potentially removes the right of another. Men who assert the right to use women’s bathrooms remove the right of women to not fear having a man in the stall next to her, making her uncomfortable. It may be that self declared transgender “women” feel more comfortable using women’s bathrooms. It is certainly the case that most actual women prefer them using men’s rooms.
Practically, what has been happening for many years now is that aspiring fascists like George Soros fund groups whose job is it to be perennially offended about some commonsense and historically well rooted feature not just of our society but societies the world over, and then make a lot of noise about it, which is then covered by left wing media. Large splashes are made of miniscule problems. Compare, for example, the number of transgenders in Houston with the number of women. The number can’t be less than 1,000 to one, but the women who don’t want men in their bathrooms can’t count on the funding of the professionally aggrieved. Common sense loses all too often battles it would have won absent effective brain-washing and media management.
As I’ve said before, who loses, at least potentially, in gay marriages? In my view, children, adopted children. We can’t ask the question if gay couples raise equally well balanced children. It’s not allowed. Asking what is best for the children is a reasonable question. Asking if being raised by two men is best is, therefore, also reasonable.
How many of you truly grasp that all this is leading us into a vast array of atomized nothings, who believe nothing, are willing to defend nothing, who have been taught since birth to give ground instantly in every cultural attack? Who suffer the depression, fears, and anxieties of the weak, and morally malformed?
I-Pods won’t save the pod people.
There are real problems in the world. The people Obama funded and trained in Syria and Iraq are throwing homosexuals off of roofs. They are raping women, children, and probably men. They are torturing people. Fidel Castro is still jailing–and as needed torturing–dissidents. Nut-job in North Korea still has nukes.
Most of the world still has a standard of living that is well below the worst of our “poor”.
Most of us are stuck with choosing between a consumer lifestyle and family and some version of leftist activism or at least moral support. These are our meaning systems, and they both suck.
I continue to have as an ambition putting together an acceptable answer. I have discovered one way not to do it, but expect more success with my next attempt.