Freedom

Freedom is only of value in a diverse society.  If everyone thinks and feels and does the same things, there is nothing that one could want that is not there. In Islamic nations, you could only want freedom if you wanted to do something not sanctioned by the Koran.  If you accept as valid all the Koranic teachings, the Haddith, and the wisdom of the Umma, there is no value in freedom.  This is why Muslims tend not to do democracy well.  That is why most of North Africa will likely soon be controlled by people our media will call Islamic extremists, but who are really just taking their faith at face value (and in so doing stepping backwards morally, in my view: there is a God, and he has placed a conscience within us for a reason).

Leftists don’t feel like they are missing anything.  When someone protests when the Ten Commandments is taken down, they feel that is the way things should be.  If someone says abortion is murder, they ignore them, since babies are not morally different than any other organ in the woman’s body, making a mastectomy and a late term abortion morally equal.  They are fine with this because they lack that foundational virtue of truly Liberal culture: empathy, the ability to see things from the perspective of other people.

As I noted a few posts ago, empathy levels in one student population, using one standard test, have dropped 40% in thirty years.  This seems like a finding that one could apply across the country.  I say this based on dealing with these creatures often in their own environments. [Someone asked in a comment how I do it.  The answer is simple: I’ve been under attack all my life.  Nothing they can dish out holds a candle to what I’ve been through countless times.  And I like sparring, because it makes my mind stronger.]

They are like members of Saddam Hussein’s tribe in prewar Iraq: they thought things were pretty good because they and their were in charge.  This they called freedom, and it was plenty.  You don’t screw with Saddam, but why would you?  He’s got your back.  As long as you take care of Obama he will take care of you (this is the feeling, but the population for which this is ACTUALLY true is much, much, much smaller than it realizes).

Cultural homogenization and autocracy go hand in hand. This is the root of my objection to gay marriage.  I could care less on many levels, not least of which is the fact that I’m not gay, so it doesn’t affect me.  But what I don’t like is the effort not just to reach a legal framework for gay marriage, but the thinking behind it which feels NO empathy for the religious sensibilities being trampled on, NO remorse for attacking them violently, and which in the end lacks a coherent morality outright.

What we need is a reason to live.  Getting legal recognition for men kissing in the chapel does not serve that purpose.  Fucking is not living.