1r=/2!89 A research paper for the book America, Whos Running Your Country By Ronald E. Young Chapter Six Research Americas Social Evolution - The Ruination of the family and the country. A planned destruction of the American way of life. In todays era of passive permissiveness, and lack of concern for Americas' basic unit of government (The Family); I have found a couple of interesting Articles concerning this issue. I see every day how our government rewards the break up of families and penalizes the family unit who strives to keep love, honor, unity and nurturing of their children intact. Children from broken families are easy dismayed and disillusioned as to what to believe, who to trust, and a feeling of being lost and unloved; with no place to turn but the streets. Todays Wefare State is eating away at the middle class American family, stripping away their dreams, dignity and incomes, to reduce once productive and successful people into a life of no hope, and no means to support themselves thus adding fuel to the Welfare State. First Article-By James Thornton Tearing Apart Our Moral Fabric The rate of criminal activity, to a very large degree, is one of the sound measurements of the health of a nation. Since America's crime problem is extremely grave, we are wise if we look below the surface of events and try to discover how this came to be. The roots of America's ongoing crime crisis may be found in the general collapse of the fundamental moral outlook of a significant number of Americans, and, in a closely related event, to the rise of the welfare state. Unquestionably, some of the fault for present conditions rests with the American people themselves, who have been insufficiently vigilant, tolerating the undermining of their own Constitution and the corruption of politicians who buy the votes of various constituencies and special interest groups by giving away largesse from the public treasury (that is, by giving them the property they have taken from working Americans of all classes). To a much greater extent, however, the blame rests on the doorstep of the liberal establishment, with those who experiment with and manipulate human lives. Liberty and Morality The Spanish philosopher, statesman, and writer, Juan Donoso-Cort'es, once said: There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external] control falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is a law of humanity, a law of history. Cort'es went on to say that if civilized man allows himself to fall into disbelief and immorality, then "the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense." Cort'es, as we see, was an astute observer of humankind, and yet his statement is not drawn from some body of esoteric knowledge. As he said, the connection between morality and liberty is a "law of history," clear to anyone attentive to reality, and indeed others have also written along similar lines. Political liberty, in any event, requires a high degree of virtue; many great men, including some of America's Founding Fathers, have written and spoken of this. Moreover, since a society racked by rampant and rising crime is a society afflicted with one or more moral or social ills, it is also a society headed for despotism. We shall now examine some of these ills, these root causes, the chief symptoms of which are increasing disrespect and disregard for law and for the rights of decent citizens. Though our list is not comprehensive, and indeed many more aspects of these problems might be included if space allowed, those noted here constitute the heart of the matter. They are: 1) the destruction of the family, 2) the sexual and drug revolutions, 3) the influence of the mass media, and 4) the collapse of American education. Obviously, at the same time, these four moral and social ills are not wholly separate from one another but, rather, are closely interrelated and act, either consciously or unconsciously, in concert. Destroying the Family Government social policies have rewarded the breakup of the family structure Almost from the beginning of civilized life on this planet, the family has been the focal point, the elementary building block, and the fundamental nucleus of civilized society. Sap the foundation of the family, and the result is that society and the national entity are thereby undermined. It is certainly no secret that the integrity of the family in the United States is in decline. One may see this, first, through the examination of statistics on illegitimacy in contemporary America. Looking at the nation as a whole, approximately 30 percent of all live births take place outside of wedlock (that is, 1.2 million children per annum). In 1950, by comparison, such births totaled approximately 12 percent. For blacks, the figure is now 70 percent nationally, and in excess of 80 percent in some inner cities. For whites, it is over 20 percent and rising. Charles Murray, writing in the Dallas Morning News for January 9, 1994, stales that present-day trends with regard to illegitimacy point to the emergence of a new, vast underclass, made up not only of members of various minority groups, especially blacks, but of whites as well. According to his research, societal problems begin to surface when a population's illegitimacy rate passes the 25 percent mark. At that point, a severe disruption of the societal structure becomes more and more evident. Murray writes that once the 25 percent figure is passed within the white community, the white underclass will begin to show its face in isolated ways. Look for [students in] certain schools in white neighborhoods to get a reputation as unteachable, with large numbers of disruptive students and indifferent parents... [L]isten for stories about white neighborhoods where the incidence of domestic disputes and casual violence has been shooting up. Look for white neighborhoods with high concentrations of drug activity and large numbers of men who have dropped out of the labor force. As the spatial concentration of illegitimacy reaches critical mass, we should expect the deterioration to be as fast among low-income whites in the 1990s as it was among low-income blacks in the 1960s. Murray's solution is significant. He contends that government social policies, beginning in the 1960s, rewarded the breakup of the family structure through, among other things, the subsidizing of illegitimacy. He states that government must "restore the rewards and penalties of marriage" that previously existed. This does not require "social engineering," he writes, but simply requires that government allow natural forces to reassert themselves. Government, in other words, must stop interfering with these natural processes, which, by themselves, "have done the job quite effectively for millennia." First and foremost, he argues, government must end all economic support for single women with children. That would immediately send the message that "to have a baby that you cannot care for yourself is profoundly irresponsible, and the government will no longer subsidize it." Present government policy encourages the creation of an underclass - be it black, white, or both - and this underclass is becoming the source of greater and greater instability in our society. Furthermore, it feeds upon itself, demanding an ever higher share of tax dollars for the administration of welfare programs, criminal justice, and for the growing bureaucracies requisite to such things. That, in turn, impoverishes ever larger numbers of those marginal members of the lowest stratum of the middle class, stealing their hard-earned dollars through taxation, destroying their jobs by driving small businesses into bankruptcy, sending them finally over the poverty line, and transforming productive citizens into welfare recipients. Sex and Drugs Sorokin gave early warning of the ruinous nature of the sexual revolution Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, writing in the mid-1950s in his book The American Sex Revolution, warned Americans that the budding sexual revolution of that time would bring ruinous consequences in its wake, including terrible social dislocations and the spread of mental, physical, and spiritual diseases of various sorts, and that it had a powerful potential even to destroy society. Sorokin first addressed the fact that the sexual revolution is not a neutral, harmless, "live and let live" concept, but something aggressive and ruinous; it is truly a "revolution" in the ugliest sense of that word and aims to pull down the pillars of traditional life. Sorokin comments: The sex drive is now declared to be the most vital mainspring of human behavior. In the name of science, its fullest satisfaction is urged as a necessary condition of man's health and happiness. Sex inhibitions are viewed as the main source of frustrations, mental and physical illnesses and criminality. Sexual chastity is ridiculed as a prudish superstition. Nuptial loyalty is stigmatized as an antiquated hypocrisy. Father is painted as a jealous tyrant desirous of castrating his sons to prevent incest with their mother. Motherhood is interpreted as a "momism," wrecking the lives of children. Sons and daughters are depicted as filled with the "complexes" of seduction of their mother and father respectively.... The traditional "child of God" created in God's image is turned into a sexual apparatus powered by sex instinct, preoccupied with sex matters, aspiring for, and dreaming and thinking mainly of, sexual relations. Sorokin writes that the disorder brought about by the sexual revolution brings mental diseases, emotional storms and crises, and, most tellingly for Americans living in the dangerous world of the late 20th century, a paralysis of will. In turn, concomitant with such volitional paralysis, Sorokin writes, ... there is a growing inability of the society to control biological and emotional drives; to resist the temptations of flesh and of material wealth and comfort; to curb the lust for power; to discharge painful duties and to make necessary sacrifices; and to chart and to follow its own historical course. From a self- determining and self-controlling collectivity, the society deteriorates into a passive drifter until it is brought to the brink of an historical Niagara. Closely connected to the sexual revolution is the drug revolution, which began roughly simultaneously. Research shows that as late as 1962, only four percent of American high school seniors had ever experimented with marijuana, whereas by 1982 (only 20 years later) that figure had soared to 59 percent. In the graduating class of 1985, nine out of ten members of that class had used alcohol, one in four had used marijuana within the previous month, one in six had used cocaine, and one in eight had tried hallucinogens. If the sexual revolution brings paralysis of will, then the drug revolution brings the atrophy of moral conscience. Both clearly comprise major roots of crime. Nations in which individual self- control and responsibility are allowed to disappear, either as a matter of deliberate government policy or through some other means, are nations that are doomed to become bleached bones in the museum of history. Mass Media The mass media - television, films, radio, and periodicals have become, as it were, psychological "weapons of mass destruction." With very few exceptions, music and entertainment range, insofar as our culture is concerned, from the mind-numbing vapidity of "sitcoms" to the openly devastating lunacy of rock "music" the funeral march, so to speak, of Western civilization. They have become the very quintessence of the spirit of nihilism. The term "nihilism" comes from the Latin word "nihil," which means "nothing." In other words, the media promote the notion that there is no such thing as truth, that nothing is worth believing in, nothing is worth living or dying for, and nothing is sacred. God, religion, patriotism, fidelity, family, beauty, nobility, virtue, goodness, altruism, love, and so on are, in the eyes of the nihilist, all illusions. It is little wonder that, with the average American child spending 20,000 hours in front of the television by age 18 (as opposed to 11,000 hours in the classroom) and, so, drinking deeply at the poisoned wells of nihilism, crime is out of control. Classroom Revolution Liberals are enemies of reality. They live in the dream world of "what we feel ought to be," rather than what truly is. This view compels them to subvert true education and to try to use education as a tool for social experimentation and to stimulate social revolution. All people, according to the liberal view, should have exactly the same intellectual capabilities. Thus, equality of opportunity is displaced by equality of outcome. Since in the real world -- one which the liberal ideologue does not accept - each and every human being does not possess the same intellectual gifts, every standard is brought downward to the lowest common level. Furthermore, according to the liberal view, all people are not only equally gifted mentally but they are also all equally good. So traditional discipline, they aver, is not only a relic of the wicked authoritarianism of the past, it damages the tender psyches of young miscreants, who would not be miscreants were they not "discriminated against" and were not most of the members of American society so "racist" and "oppressive." Again, the lowest denominator is the order of the day and so nascent sociopaths are permitted to turn classrooms into veritable bedlams of chaos. One must not underestimate, too, the baneful influence of the federal government in the destruction of the educational system, a system over which they took effective control beginning in the mid-1950s as a result of Supreme Court decisions. Federal dollars, which began to flow into local school districts in the early 1960s, have come at the cost of federal regulation of local schools, effectively taking control away from the members of the local community and placing it in the hands of bureaucrats thousands of miles away. Here again, social engineering is the prescription, societal demolition is the result. The social engineers, who see their fellow human beings as laboratory rats and who apparently love nothing better than to observe the distress and agony that result from social experimentation, are mostly upper-crust types. They range from over-paid and under-worked college professors, through warm-talking, cold-hearted politicians, to internationalist-minded executives of multinational corporations. In virtually every case, their hefty incomes and generous perks allow for their insulation from the hideous results of their experimental schemes. Whatever class hatreds and racial poison they stir up by their rhetoric and ill-begotten legislation, they know in their hearts it will not touch them or their families. Their livelihoods, their social positions, their safety, and their security all guaranteed by the labors of American taxpayers - are not at risk. The present liberal elite has pushed this nation to the edge of chaos, and a case may be built that it has all been part of a premeditated plan, so that the same elite may rule where previously they merely "served." When limited government and freedom are allowed to slip away, this usually results in a "time of troubles," a period of incessant chaos. But chaos is never a permanent state in human affairs. Chaos, inevitably, must be followed by tyranny. Nations in which individual self-control and responsibility are allowed to disappear are nations that are doomed to become bleached bones in the museum of history. One Hope At this late stage, tradition-minded Americans have but one hope and that lies with the restoration of our Constitutional Republic and the demise of the welfare state. Such a restoration would mean the restoration also of local control over schools and police, and that local courts would be free to punish criminals properly. It would mean, as well, the sharp limitation of the ability of federal courts to interfere in the affairs of local communities. Strong, self-reliant local communities would, in turn, rebuild the notion of strong individuals. It must be emphasized that to achieve our goals, including the demise of the welfare state and a return to personal responsibility, Americans must be impelled towards a heart-felt return to the values, ethics, and morals of our forebears. Second Article- also by James Thornton Back to the Family On December 4,1994, during an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Newt Gingrich replied to a question from Lisa Myers of NBC News in which Myers noted criticisms by Hillary Clinton of a Republican proposal that some welfare mothers be compelled to place their children in orphanages. Gingrich responded: "I'd ask her [Mrs. Clinton] to go to Blockbuster and rent the Mickey Rooney movie Boys Town. The little four-year-old who was thrown off the balcony in Chicago would have been a heck of a lot better off at Boys Town. The 11 year-old who was killed after he killed a 14-year-old might have had a chance to live in a supervised boarding school. The children you see killed every weekend might be better off in a group home or a foster home." Gingrich went on to describe 13-year-old pregnant drug addicts who abandon their children and cited statistics showing that, in Washington, DC alone, 800 babies are abandoned each year. He suggested that these children be institutionalized. In the weeks since the Gingrich interview others have joined this debate, some, like Mrs. Clinton, taking the p0sition that the current welfare structure serves the interests of the country, with others opting, like Gingrich, for state- run orphanages. These, however, are spurious issues in a bogus debate that ignores the real question: Insofar as the care and rearing of children is concerned, does the family or the state possess primacy? An American Tradition To earlier generations of Americans, the thought of a powerful federal govemment insinuating itself between parents and their children would have been repellent. That was so because America was a traditional society in which the family - the hallowed community formed by the union of one man and one woman and their offspring -- was seen as the bedrock of a healthy society and, at an even more foundational level, the source of all other social organizations (villages, towns, cities, provinces, nations, etc.). This conception of the family is, indeed, a very old one. The Bible proffers the icon of the family of Abraham as the origin of the Hebrew nation and people. The ancient Athenians and the Romans saw the family as the fountainhead of their city-states and nations, recognition of that belief being firmly fixed in their codes of law. Aristotle writes of the larger community, such as the village, as an offshoot of the prototype, or model, exemplified by the structure of the family and, correspondingly, the hierarchical organization of government as the derivative of the hierarchical organization of families. To the stem Roman of the old Republic, the family was the crucible in which children of good character were formed, and this attitude remained an important feature of Roman life well into the era of the early Empire. Seneca admonished parents not to indulge children lest their characters become twisted. Two centuries later, the rampant decay of a society in decline tainted all of its institutions, including the family. The nascent Christian Church censured corrupted pagan culture for, among other things, its transgressions against the family. We see this in the anonymous, second-century Christian treatise known as The Didache, which denounces the widespread practice of murdering newborns by abandoning them to the elements and of murdering unborn babies through abortion. "People far indeed from meekness and patience. that love vanity and seek reward . -. that do not know their own Creator, that kill their children and with abortions destroy the creatures of God.... Flee, my children, from such vile people." The rise of Christianity renewed Mediterranean-European society first and foremost by rejuvenating family life. Under the Emperor Constantine, morality was restored by the imposition of strong laws which, among other things, punished the killing of children, either before or after birth, and protected the sanctity of the family. Such legislation returned equilibnum to society for over a thousand years. Thus we read in a ninth-century manuscript, Life of Philaretos, that three generations lived happily under the roof of this saintly man. Only with the rise of atheism and statism, beginning in the latter half of the 18th century, did the family again come under attack. Society's Foundation We see then that, from the time of early civilization, the family unit, formed by father, mother, and their descendants, was the basic material from which larger human associations, such as cities and nations, were created. Families are a fundamental, natural component of human existence. They are as essential to the functioning of healthy human society as the heart is to the functioning of an individual, healthy human body. We see also that the health of family life - the societal microcosm--reflects the health of the larger society. When one is ill, the contagion spreads quickly to the other. Should family life crumble sufficiently, the life of the larger social organism is at an end. There is also a direct correlation between the strength of the family and freedom, which we should address briefly. "The ideal for which the family stands ... is liberty," wrote O.K. Chesterton. "It is the only ... institution that is at once necessary and voluntary. It is the only check on the state that is bound to renew itself as eternally as the state, and more naturally than the state." In other words, the family is despotic government' 5 greatest enemy. In the ancient world, a primitive version of totalitarianism raised its head in the city-state of Sparta, but there, as in the remainder of the Mediterranean world, the family was strong and so mitigated the totalistic nature of the Spartan state to some degree. Historian Paul A. Rahe writes, "The household [in Sparta] was the chief obstacle to the city's complete psychological absorption of the individual." The family, he tells us, resisted the state's reach for total power. It is well known that modern totalitarian systems, such as Soviet communism, look on family with loathing. Since totalitarianism seeks to focus all aspects of life on agencies of ideological power - that is, the party and the state and seeks unquestioning obedience from individuals, it views all rival institutions suspiciously. Opposition political parties are, of course, anathema. So also is the Church, since the ultimate loyalties of its members are to God and to spiritual truths. But the family, too, is an enemy of the all-powerful state. Its loyalties cut across that required by the totalitarian mind, shaping young people in ways that obstruct ideological agenda. It was typical of the Soviets that they made heroes of children who spied and informed on their parents. Such policies aimed at subverting the family, at transforming it from a place of warmth, love, and trust into a place of coldness and uncertainty. The family represents continuity and tradition and in its "nest," so to speak, children are born and reared. Thus, the family represents the juncture of the past and the future as successive generations pass on their experiences, memories, ideals, values, and ways of life. Interrupt that process for a relatively short length of time, and the past - along with all that it represents - is gone forever. Lenin once declared to his followers; "Give us a child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevik forever." The great moral vacuum that ultimately came to characterize Soviet life bears witness to the truth of Lenin's dictum. Without the impress of family love, influence, guidance, and education, a child becomes like a small, rudderless boat adrift in the dark sea of uncertainty. In contrast, the family imparts the assurance that comes from a solid foundation and prepares the child for life in the adult world. "The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world," observed psychologist Carl Jung. "The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child," he wrote, "the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life." Without the impress of family love, influence, guidance, and education, a child becomes like a small, rudderless boat adrift in the dark sea of uncertainty. A Few Proposals Newt Gingrich, a self-described "futurist" and disciple of Alvin Toffler, is given to speaking of "paradigm shifts" -Sudden changes in the way in which people view the world. It is possible that his mock-casual endorsement of state- run orphanages was intended to bring about a "paradigm shift": It would change the way in which people see the welfare state, while not changing the substance or principles involved. Genuine conservatives must always look to the defense of the supremacy of the family. In place of liberal statism and the halfhearted, reformist programs of neo-conservatives, let us consider a program that promises to halt the disintegration of American life and that helps to reconstruct the virtues that made America a good and a great nation. Following are a few proposals. First, all federal welfare programs must end forthwith, including programs that channel federal monies to the states for the continuation of failed experiments in social engineering. Local communities and private charitable institutions, especially religious institutions, may then assume those duties that historically belonged to them and were usurped by federal bureaucrats and politicians. Second, interference by the federal government, especially the judiciary, in local law enforcement must be halted by whatever legislative or constitutional means necessary. Law and order, historically the function of local government and police agencies, must be restored. That will put an end to the domination of cities by thugs and peddlers of narcotics and, as well, to the imaginary "rights" of criminals, "rights" that sabotage law enforcement efforts and rob law-abiding citizens of such genuine rights as life, liberty, and property. This will protect the child from crime, even in those extraordinary cases where the criminal is a member of the child's own family. Next, except under the most extreme conditions, government must be prevented from interfering in family life. As we said, the family is the oldest of human institutions, the preeminent institution for teaching the young and for transmitting the traditions of the community. In those relatively rare situations in which disordered families exhibit proclivities towards violence or other forms of moral debasement, and threaten to engender these qualities in children, local institutions must be responsible for rectifying such problems. But laws dealing with such situations must recognize that these exceptions are precisely that - exceptions - and should not inadvertently or deliberately threaten or undermine the overwhelming majority of healthy families. The family must remain inviolate and bureaucrats must be forestalled from extending the boundaries of law enforcement so as to encompass and harass decent citizens. Finally, orphanages should be an absolute last resort and, even then, should never be the responsibility of government, but of private charitable and ecclesiastical organizations. These should aim at returning children to their families, or foster families, as soon as possible. Source: --FROM JAMES THORNTON THE NEW AMERICAN FALL/WINTER 1994 Pages 10-11-12 THE NEW AMERICAN FEBRUARY 1995 Pages 35-36 Reprinted by permission American Opinion Publishing Incorporated. July 4th, 1995 You may not agree with the concepts of these articles, but, for many; this has gotten them where they are now. Lack of self-sufficiency/self-respect, and lack of control in ones own life and a rampant take-over by the government to dictate what our lives are to be. The Master becomes the Slave & the Slave becomes the Master. The idea that one doesnt have to concern themselves with the business of living; because the government will TAKE CARE OF US...For those of you with this attitude... look out...Theres more be TAKEN than CARED for here! Theres a price to pay for having ones living subsidized, sooner or later the Piper will come!!! 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