Yes, the moral dilemma that can be describes as egoism (doing for me) vs egalitarianism (doing for others in need). Or it is also a pursuit of short-term individual gain over long-term collective pain.
What has governed our choices of these things over the ages has been a foundational morality that we all shared. We just were taught as young children the importance of doing no harm and leaving the campground cleaner than we found it.
Secularism has destroyed the foundation morality and given rise to a new fake morality where the pursuit of any individual benefit is justified as righteous.
In my opinion the milestone event for when we started a significant slide down to this situation where individual greed and resentment, egoism if you will, began to override historical moral guiderails, was when our President, the leader of the free world, went on national TV to tell his baldfaced lie "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" and then later during his Senate testimony hedged on a question saying his famous "it depended on what the definition of is is."
At that time the world was educated to believe that getting away with behavior that was easily identified as immoral would be considered acceptable if one can get away with it.
We were already sliding down the moral slippery slope, but Clinton gave it a big push.
And it isn't just the secular left going immoral. I have debates with my Christian conservative friends claiming that free markets are a near religion and that millions of displaced working Americans is just an accepted outcome for maximizing their Wall Street returns.
Salient points Frank. I completely agree. Clinton definitely added to the social decay. I remember being at work, at a clients house in Oregon at the time. They were watching the Senate hearings. I remember how astonished and confused they were. They couldn’t understand why such a great man was being persecuted for nothing. I guess looking back on it, that was indeed the beginning of the end. Our species had walked through the veil. I just didn’t know it😒
Truly a beautiful piece John. Hits it on the head. We see it everyday in just about everything we do. Where/how we live. Our children’s education. Our nutritional needs. How to stop it? I fear at this point our species has gone beyond the pale. Orson had it right. Four legs good. Two legs bad. 😒
John's article is good, as always. Let me just say that a relationship with Christ can reverse this for any individual person, and if enough people do this, it can save a society. I tell you, for me, just knowing that there is a Supreme Being looking over my shoulder, watching what I do, knowing what I'm thinking, and keep track of this for my judgment day, to reward me with eternal life in heaven or eternal punishment in hell- is the game changer. Obviously, grabbing for filthy lucre, power, or sex, for a few decades at most, is a terribly stupid bargain if it means giving up eternity in a glorified body. In the words of Clubber Lang; "I pity the fool!"
Very good piece, and if China wanted to weaken and ultimately destroy America, what would it do? Pretty much all of that.
I loved this piece, John. Great work.
Yes, the moral dilemma that can be describes as egoism (doing for me) vs egalitarianism (doing for others in need). Or it is also a pursuit of short-term individual gain over long-term collective pain.
What has governed our choices of these things over the ages has been a foundational morality that we all shared. We just were taught as young children the importance of doing no harm and leaving the campground cleaner than we found it.
Secularism has destroyed the foundation morality and given rise to a new fake morality where the pursuit of any individual benefit is justified as righteous.
In my opinion the milestone event for when we started a significant slide down to this situation where individual greed and resentment, egoism if you will, began to override historical moral guiderails, was when our President, the leader of the free world, went on national TV to tell his baldfaced lie "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" and then later during his Senate testimony hedged on a question saying his famous "it depended on what the definition of is is."
At that time the world was educated to believe that getting away with behavior that was easily identified as immoral would be considered acceptable if one can get away with it.
We were already sliding down the moral slippery slope, but Clinton gave it a big push.
And it isn't just the secular left going immoral. I have debates with my Christian conservative friends claiming that free markets are a near religion and that millions of displaced working Americans is just an accepted outcome for maximizing their Wall Street returns.
Salient points Frank. I completely agree. Clinton definitely added to the social decay. I remember being at work, at a clients house in Oregon at the time. They were watching the Senate hearings. I remember how astonished and confused they were. They couldn’t understand why such a great man was being persecuted for nothing. I guess looking back on it, that was indeed the beginning of the end. Our species had walked through the veil. I just didn’t know it😒
Truly a beautiful piece John. Hits it on the head. We see it everyday in just about everything we do. Where/how we live. Our children’s education. Our nutritional needs. How to stop it? I fear at this point our species has gone beyond the pale. Orson had it right. Four legs good. Two legs bad. 😒
John's article is good, as always. Let me just say that a relationship with Christ can reverse this for any individual person, and if enough people do this, it can save a society. I tell you, for me, just knowing that there is a Supreme Being looking over my shoulder, watching what I do, knowing what I'm thinking, and keep track of this for my judgment day, to reward me with eternal life in heaven or eternal punishment in hell- is the game changer. Obviously, grabbing for filthy lucre, power, or sex, for a few decades at most, is a terribly stupid bargain if it means giving up eternity in a glorified body. In the words of Clubber Lang; "I pity the fool!"