Abandoning Morality

Written by contributing author:  David Perkins
Commentary by:  Jennifer Jessee

"DEMOCRACY swept Europe with the sabre when it was founded on 'the Rights of Man.' It has done literally nothing at all since it has been founded only upon the wrongs of man, or, more strictly speaking, its recent failure has been due to its not admitting the existence of any rights or wrongs, or indeed of any humanity."  Charles Dickens

He is speaking of the French Revolution, "The Terror" as it was known, in which the collectivist "rights of man" were lifted up and set atop society so that it slaughtered its rich and destroyed its religion and traditions and generally turned itself inside out and upside down. Starvation and poverty, disorder and chaos, fear and suffering and death were the result. The suffering under the last kings simply did not compare to this. They rechristened Notre Dame "the temple of reason" but were conducting prostitution inside, and using it for a public toilet, in no time. 

They changed the number of days in a month, the number of months in a year, the name of each month, street names, historical places, everything was wrecked and ruined in a free-for-all of anti-traditional and anti-historical violence, literal and figurative. It was the very same instinct to erase traditions that motivates the modern left today. The same one that impels Michelle Obama to say we have to change OUR traditions and history. The same one that makes the president say we are going to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM this country. 

It is "democracy" and it is lethal; when it pretends tradition and history mean nothing, it loses all contact with what human beings ARE, all restraint, all decorum, all morality itself. Abandoning old morality does NOT lead you to new morality; it leads to IMMORALITY and to amorality, both of which are devastating to society. Nobody is perfect, but when you deliberately abandon your touchstones of perfection, you abandon the restraint that comes with the visibility of those touchstones.

Any hope that this modern iteration of society was immune to these self-destructive instincts was always a vain hope. Human beings don't change.

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Protesters destroy an American flag  pulled down from the US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt (AP)

Commentary

America has become a "Weak Horse" in the words of author, Michael Prell. We are hated as result.  Our American flags are being shredded in Libya and Egypt as "souvenirs."  Our country aided in the "liberation"of these countries because they needed to become "democracies." Minding our own business and saving our money for AMERICA is obviously too logical for "foreign policy" -- an oxymoron.

When you have an a-moral society make decisions on moral grounds, you are ensured im-morality. The Obamas should apologize to America for being such failure, NOT to the world for America being a success. The only time a pack of animals will attack is if they out-number their foe or if they view them as vulnerable.  Obama has ensured our vulnerability in the world arena of public opinion.  Someone told me today about how Reagan took care of things like this...with strength.  The Bushes?  With might and resolve.  Obama?  Memos and apologies.

Disclaimer:  Opinions expressed here are solely those of the author unless otherwise stated.  You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.