1. A philosophical Litmus test that distinguishes Liberals from conservatives is how they place humans in the world. For conservatives, and traditionalists, humans are set apart from the rest of the biosphere, different in both abilities and characteristics.
For the Left, we are simply one more organism, with neither expectations nor responsibilities that differentiate us from any other living thing.
2. The Left's beliefs, with Freud, Darwin, and Marx as the pillars of their philosophy, is certainly easier to live with, as it allows for unmitigated nor restrained behaviors, and allows the same morality found in the rest of the animal kingdom. This view reduces morality to personal taste: Whatever works for you.
Once "religion" is of this secular variety, morality becomes whatever the government says it is. Fine, unless one objects to the morality of the Nazis, the communists, or the American politicians who endorse infanticide, adultery and murder.
3. When morality became privatized and, the questions what is right became what is right for me. Feelings become the arbiters of behavior.
Rather than traditional taboos, only religiously based moral judgment was deemed taboo. The harm caused to abandoned spouses or children by adultery or desertion- harm that can be objectively documented in rates of ill health, depression, educational underachievement, criminal behavior- was all but ignored, while damage done to peoples feelings by condemnation of their adultery or desertion was considered unforgiveable.
Melanie Phillips, "The World Turned Upside Down," chapter 14.
4. Consider how Liberal control of the schools and the media has changed outlooks.
"Although women have always been considered to be more devoted supporters of monogamy than men, is their support really that unconditional? ....while most woman prefer monogamy, is it possible there is a significant minority that sees it as a fundamental abridgment of their rights? And is that minority having a large and growing impact on what happens in American society?"
William Tucker," Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human ," p. 224
a. Not a day goes by without some news item about "female high school teachers who seduce their students, neighborhood mothers who sleep with teenage boys, "groupies" who throw themselves at rock stars, and a whole variety of scenarios where women are the sexual aggressors."
Tucker, Op. Cit., p. 221-222
5. It wasn't always that way.
a. In America, the spirit of religion nourished the spirit of liberty. Liberty regards religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. I. p. 44.
b. There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and debasement; while in America, one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world, the people fulfill with fervor all the outward duties of religion
Ibid., p. 308.
6. So....who benefits from monogamy? In "The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage," []The puzzle of monogamous marriage that question is examined: it isn't high-status men, and this factor works against societal monogamy, as well. Women prefer higher status males as long-term pair-bonded partners, and it is low-status women who are constricted as to their choice of husbands. What can these women do?
Well....if the Liberal view is their guide, they can behave as other members of the animal kingdom do. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist and primatologist, takes a look at evolutionary psychology and sociobiology of chimps, in which the female mates with every male, and often steal away and mate with the males of neighboring groups as well.
7. Today, there is a dominant political philosophy that, it seems, encourages this primitive behavior via lack of condemnation, and even with government entitlements.
8. "She is the Welfare Mother, the woman who has a large brood of children by different men. (Of the women on welfare) 42% had only one child, and 30% had two. But the remainder- 4 million single mothers- consisted of women with sizable broods, almost always by multiple fathers."
Tucker, Op. Cit., p.227.
This would not be possible without Liberal welfare policies.
For the Left, we are simply one more organism, with neither expectations nor responsibilities that differentiate us from any other living thing.
2. The Left's beliefs, with Freud, Darwin, and Marx as the pillars of their philosophy, is certainly easier to live with, as it allows for unmitigated nor restrained behaviors, and allows the same morality found in the rest of the animal kingdom. This view reduces morality to personal taste: Whatever works for you.
Once "religion" is of this secular variety, morality becomes whatever the government says it is. Fine, unless one objects to the morality of the Nazis, the communists, or the American politicians who endorse infanticide, adultery and murder.
3. When morality became privatized and, the questions what is right became what is right for me. Feelings become the arbiters of behavior.
Rather than traditional taboos, only religiously based moral judgment was deemed taboo. The harm caused to abandoned spouses or children by adultery or desertion- harm that can be objectively documented in rates of ill health, depression, educational underachievement, criminal behavior- was all but ignored, while damage done to peoples feelings by condemnation of their adultery or desertion was considered unforgiveable.
Melanie Phillips, "The World Turned Upside Down," chapter 14.
4. Consider how Liberal control of the schools and the media has changed outlooks.
"Although women have always been considered to be more devoted supporters of monogamy than men, is their support really that unconditional? ....while most woman prefer monogamy, is it possible there is a significant minority that sees it as a fundamental abridgment of their rights? And is that minority having a large and growing impact on what happens in American society?"
William Tucker," Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human ," p. 224
a. Not a day goes by without some news item about "female high school teachers who seduce their students, neighborhood mothers who sleep with teenage boys, "groupies" who throw themselves at rock stars, and a whole variety of scenarios where women are the sexual aggressors."
Tucker, Op. Cit., p. 221-222
5. It wasn't always that way.
a. In America, the spirit of religion nourished the spirit of liberty. Liberty regards religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. I. p. 44.
b. There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and debasement; while in America, one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world, the people fulfill with fervor all the outward duties of religion
Ibid., p. 308.
6. So....who benefits from monogamy? In "The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage," []The puzzle of monogamous marriage that question is examined: it isn't high-status men, and this factor works against societal monogamy, as well. Women prefer higher status males as long-term pair-bonded partners, and it is low-status women who are constricted as to their choice of husbands. What can these women do?
Well....if the Liberal view is their guide, they can behave as other members of the animal kingdom do. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist and primatologist, takes a look at evolutionary psychology and sociobiology of chimps, in which the female mates with every male, and often steal away and mate with the males of neighboring groups as well.
7. Today, there is a dominant political philosophy that, it seems, encourages this primitive behavior via lack of condemnation, and even with government entitlements.
8. "She is the Welfare Mother, the woman who has a large brood of children by different men. (Of the women on welfare) 42% had only one child, and 30% had two. But the remainder- 4 million single mothers- consisted of women with sizable broods, almost always by multiple fathers."
Tucker, Op. Cit., p.227.
This would not be possible without Liberal welfare policies.
