Common Sense is gone. Morality
is gone. Don't think so? Read these examples and see if what I say (as
do many, many others) is wrong. The first three items are
representative of thousands of examples. The fourth is just one
representative example of why academia has been and continues to be a
major contributor to both (and in k-12 public schools as in item #1).
2. http://www.redstate.com/2013/08/18/something-evil-this-way-comes-with-obamas-new-labor-secretary/
As covered in a number
of previous notes, our society has long been in decline. Anyone who
seriously studies history will find that throughout time nations have
risen and fallen largely because of their loss of common sense, moral
decay and pursuit of mythical (often dominating) causes. Likewise our
decline started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
History labels that time period as the "age of progressivism".
Progressivism is a politically left socialistic philosophy that rejects
(or at least ignores) both traditional religious and fundamental
scientific principles, the very foundations of morality and common
sense. Instead, it embraces a flawed elitist amoral secular
humanism/eschatological world view. Today progressivism dominates
leftist liberal/democrat and increasingly republican governmental
policies.
For a better understanding of the point being made consider these quotes from the link that follows. "Mixing
political science with eschatology invariably leads to science fiction.
Modern progressivism has willfully confused mundane evolutionary
changes that historically occur within societies with various forms of
political salvation. As such, they are religiously and blindly devoting
themselves to political myths that they themselves will never be able to
enjoy. Marxism, socialism, and environmentalism are apocalyptic myths
of the modern leftist imagination. Yet the debt incurred by their dreams is billowing up into a potential financial Armageddon."
And, "Furthermore,
the political disillusionments and grave disappointments many Marxists,
socialists, and environmentalists often complain about cannot be
ameliorated by a future utopian state, as they so often presume. The
suffering of the past is already a historical fact that cries out for
justice just as much as any future generation that follows it. Worse,
secular eschatology invariably degrades all previous generations to the
status of a mere means to a future utopian end that virtually none of
its peoples will ever be able to share
in for the simple reason they were born at the wrong time. Secularism
and utopian social justice therefore cannot be reconciled. Such a
mixture is contradicted and limited by its own secularization."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/the_easter_mythology_of_modern_progressivism.html#ixzz2cQHhbJQn
George Burns
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