Slave morality and the sexual revolution....

Before I begin, I need to apologize to any readers for the lack of posts over the last six months. I recently started business school, work full time, and have three young children at home, so I haven't found the time to get to this like I'd like to. Also, the muse disappeared for awhile. I will attempt to post every other Saturday going forward. Last night, our television provider was giving a free subscription to HBO. An induction ceremony for various groups into the rock 'n'roll Hall of Fame was on, and being a fan of music, I thought I'd tune in. Given that I have grown up in the post-modern/post Christian/atheist existentilialist narrative, one would think I wouldn't be surprised by what I would hear on a show that has the sexual revolution's worldly vision expressed at every other presentation. I shouldn't say I was surprised, but after earning graduate degrees in philosophy and Catholic Studies, I should say that I was a little more prepared to discern exactly what I was digesting when listening to the will to power ethic that was portrayed. Thinking back to my youth and watching similar shows, the thought crossed my mind about just how poisonous these artists are to the cultural health of our country. The harbingers of the sexual revolution, with their 50 year old archaic ideas that are no newer than humanity itself, dribble poison before the eyes of our children in psuedo-intellectual catch phrases, in a "cool" way, and suddenly our youth is lost in a horrible pro-male feminism and wicked revolutionist ideology. Two presentations caught my eye. One was recognizing the Brooklyn based rap group "Public Enemy," and the other was a band that I don't even recall the name. The presenter for Public Enemy threw out phrases like, "revolution, radicalism, rebellion," and painted them in romantic and poetic light. The group themselves got up and proclaimed the same thing, revolt against the racist powers of America that have held the black man down. Another catch phrase was "fight the power." This fodder coming from the mouths of artistic talent, and in an intellectual guise, is what buries our children in what can only be described as intellectual poison. The lead member of Public Enemy stood in front of the crowd and said he is "only after truth." Fair enough, but I had the thought that I wish I could put the whole show on pause and ask him the famous question of Pontius Pilate, "Quid est veritas?" (What is truth?) You see, all of the rhetoric struck me as empty, and dangerously empty. Do they understand that they are articulating violence and hate through words like "revolution, radical, rebellion, racist?" Quid est veritas? All of the language they used was empty rhetoric. Of course, they received adulation for what they were saying because it certainly "sounds" good. I was reminded of Socrates and his problem with the sophists of his day. The sophists hid a will to power and domination behind rhetoric. They were about persuasion and not truth, Socrates held them to truth, and they put him to death for it. The rhetoric was persuasive, but it was EMPTY. Again, I wished I could put the show on hold and question the presenters. What is this "American racism" you speak of? Is there institutionalized racism in America today? I would say in certain parts of the country, perhaps. They mentioned that most people in prison are African American and pointed to that as demonstration that America was racist. Why is it the case that the majority of people in prison are black? Do police officers target black males? Possibly, but I would posit this is based on the rule of averages. It is human nature to make generalizations based on appearances. If your chances of making a bust and protecting the public go up if you pull a black man over, won't you probably tend to do that? Profiling stinks, but it's based on the rule of averages. I would submit that it is not American institutional racism that has put a disproportianate number of African Americans in prison; I would submit that it's the very sexual revolution that has done this. Sure, there may be pockets of institutional racism, but you typically don't go to jail in this country unless you've been caught committing a crime. What leads to making young men susceptible to crime? Having no fathers in the home. The pscyhological and sociological proof is in the empirical pudding, yet we blame government institutions for the break down of African American culture. So what is it that pushed the father out of the home, and most devastatingly in the African American community? The pill.(To silence the haters who will immediately shout "racism" at the way I am writing here, I give a very simply principle that I live by. Christ said "Whatever you've done unto the least of my brethren, you've done unto me." I abide by that quote, and like MLK, I judge a man based on the content of his character. You simply cannot live the Gospel values an be racist.) We continue to be willfully ignorant of the social toll of the new ideology of evil that is destroying the family and creating chaos. What has the pill done for us? It has given us sexual liberation, which has turned men into predators and pornographers, women into masculinists, drove dad from the home, forced mom into the workforce, devalued children, driven many women and children into poverty, increased suicide, depression, rape, and exploded abortion. Some pleasant fruit, is it not? So, then, we come to an all female band, where one of the members stood before the crowd and claimed there used to be only four professions for women, mom, teacher, nurse, or secretary. She chose to join a band, thus insinuating that she stood for womankind's liberation. I am so tired of this dribble that I get dyspepsia when I hear it. Someone please break out the smelling salts! What has the archaic 60's so called forward thinking done for women? Just read the blogs of the very harbingers of the sexual revolution to see what it has wrought. Women angry at the institution of marriage because they allow their husbands to view pornography, which then makes them disinterested in sex with their wives. Women upset with life because they pursued career over children, and suddenly the natural law catches up to them. Women angry because men are either not interested in sex, or only interested in youthful beauty, and they run out on their wives for the newest beauty. Let's break out the megaphone: sexual revolution feminists, you are sleeping in the bed you've made! Paul VI, sitting at God's right hand, must be smiling at the irony! Why do these masculinists call themselves feminists? Why do we continue to believe the lie that the TRULY feminine virtues of personalism, nurture, care of children, thrift, emotional connectivity, sentimentality, impervious devotion, cleanliness, good manners, modesty, impeccable charity, care taking, and love are vice? Why must the woman, who has chosen to be everything to someone, instead of something to everyone, be disparaged as anti-woman? She is woman at her finest! She is the queen of creation! We think too worldly with the will to power mentality when we let 1960's feminism poison our minds in this way. Think as God thinks. Our Father will reward in secret because he sees in secret. Stay at home moms, if you are reading this, you are training yourself in virtue before the only eyes that matter, and those are God's! Not to mention, while your daily efforts may go unrecognized by the world, you are creating the salt of the earth and preserving our society for the future, because you are creating the correct environment to raise virtuous citizens. As is usual in our crazy world, the best citizens are criticized for being the worst. You are the salt of this earth and a testament to the absolute beauty of femininity! Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Of course, I can hear the masculinist feminists, who traded their femininity for masculinity, screaming that I am just another sexist pig who wants to hold womankind down. On the contrary, I am in alignment with the masculinist feminists in that it is unjust for a woman to be treated differently than a man in terms of hiring, wages, glass ceilings, etc. Nonetheless, there is great value in not pursuing career over family because quite simply, women are better at tending to the family. Corporations ought to make it possible for women to work around children if necessary, but for heaven's sake, let's get rid of the idea that to be a powerful, good woman, you have to be a Plato or career woman. A stay at home mother is not a bad thing, it is the greatest thing on earth. She is not only Plato to her child, she is also priest, prophet, nurse, sage, story teller, lover, comforter, trainer in virtue, feeder, caretaker. In short, EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY. Before someone throws the label "sexist" at me out there, let me say that life would be so drab without women in my life. My best friend is a woman (my wife), I owe it to a woman (my mother) for getting me out of an alcoholic existintialist, vicious life style, because of her prayers to another woman, Mary. This man is simply anti-masculinist (read 1960's) feminism. So, the poison that is the result of the sexual revolution will probably not show it's face until it's too late and we realize how awful it really is through actual persecution and pain. These artists with their empty rhetoric, spewing about truth, but using the word "truth" to tell lies, need prayers as they are perpetuating the injustices they purport to despise.