Culture and Common Culture
Rick Adamson
8.8.19
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious
People. It is wholly
inadequate
to the government of any other.” John Adams Think about these words for a moment. Do you think Americans are a moral people? Do you think Americans are a religious people?
If your answer is NO,
and if Adams was right, our government may very well be inadequate and
in need of modification.
I think
the answer is, generally, yes. But there are fringe groups who are not moral or
religious. They are loud and blusterous and receive undue attention
(attention that far exceeds their grievances) which results in the authorities
being so attentive to their grievances that they
offend the rights of the majority; so attentive to various sub cultures hurt feelings
that they offend the rights of those of the
common culture.
The point is moral and religious people who make up the common culture in
When a group of old White religious dudes formed the USA
They
envisioned a Nation where local civic and/or religious institutions (schools,
civic clubs and churches, etc.) would thrive and contribute to the moral development
of the people as well as to provide for the needs of the poor in their communities.
They
understood human nature and knew they could not change it; however, their new
system was designed to moderate it, as far as the general government
was concerned. They left the moral development of the people to the local civic institutions to which those people
subscribed.
All
went pretty well for about 150 years at which time the general government began
to grow and to involve itself in the daily life of everyone.(4)
No
doubt this reorientation was based on good intentions but, also, unintended
consequences.
Over
time, with the help of the growing general government and the hyper-active courts, the
importance of these local civic institutions was diminished and their
impact upon moral development retarded. After all, once the general government
assumed responsibility for moral development and the poor what need was there
for the local civic organizations? Moreover, unlike the general
government, a local organization might shame a person’s misbehavior: maybe shun it. Who needs that? (7)
As
a result, we have evolved into a "...Nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias,
and rages; where mass murder has become all too common. This is what you
get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters.
Extract
all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many
boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens.
For
many, there is no armature left to hang a life on, no communities, no fathers,
no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily
organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities,
no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out. This abyss of missing
social relations is made worse by the everyday physical settings for
everyday lives based on nothing.” (1)
What
caused this?
1.
Unbridled immigration since the mid
1960’s; forsaking the need for careful management
2.
The welfare state (3)
3.
The court’s involvement in religious practices
(2)
4.
The general government’s involvement in every
public school in America
5.
Failure to assimilate home grown minorities
into the common culture
6.
Illegal immigration and a failed immigration
system
7.
Birthright citizenship (6)
8.
The general government’s and the court’s
preoccupation with the feelings of complainants
9.
Various economic reasons and the failure of
parents to properly raise their offspring
10.
The loss of psychiatric hospitals for which our
jails are substituting (5)
The problem is:
√ 1. and 2. are incompatible,
√ 2. and 6. are incompatible,
√ 2. and 7. are incompatible,
√ 2. contributes to the problem of
5.,
√ 6. resulted in 911 and MS13,
√ 3. and 4. prohibit local schools
from functioning as their community desires - including prayer and separate
dressing rooms for boys and girls
√ re 8. feelings are not covered by
the founding documents.
What
can be done? We need a convention of the states to convene and take back our
Country. Follow this link for a handbook which describes the process: Link
here.
And That’s that!
Notes
(2) See “Assalt on Religion”
(3) See “Catastrophic Mistake”
(6) See "Birthright
Citizenship”
