As IF Times

link Liberal Frankensteins – Victor Davis Hanson – National Review Online.

In my opinion, one of the best, succinct summaries of the malaise that affects free societies in our time.  Hanson points out the various big fibs and spurious policies that have been circulating since the end of World War 2.  Wrong headed policies that were pursued with the ‘best of intentions’ have grotesquely morphed into the cancer like manifestations of liberal thought threatening the very survival of free society today.  Unlike Al Gore’s version of how it’s all going to end, this article clearly illustrates the various prongs of stupidity that are surely pointing to the demise of free people.

At the root is the hijacking of the education system, which has veered sharply away from teachings of core values and absolute results to political brainwashing and elusive conclusions and questionable sensitivities.  This is one of the best lines from the article:

“…Modern university education has achieved the dubious result of turning out a self-described sensitive, caring mind that has never been more ignorant of the past and the present…”

While there are certainly voices that point out the insanity of what’s happened, they are vastly outnumbered by the endless cacophony of the delusional left.  Life so closely parallels George Orwell’s Animal Farm, that you can use the book as a roadmap for a glimpse of Christmases future.  It’s as if the people who gained the most from social and economic policies of the past 50 years are the people most likely to pursue policies that are the exact opposite of what brought success to them.  Paradoxically, the more obvious the failures of these policies are, the more ardently they are pursued and defended.  Unfortunately, those that make the most noise tend to get the most attention, regardless of how inane their viewpoints.   This is expected to appeal to young people, since their minds are susceptible to information of all kinds and they have yet to measure what’s told to them against the realities of genuine experience.  But how then to explain the ongoing ignorance of the older generation, those who should have passed the naive phase of their lives towards a more reasoned view of how things work?  Somehow, many in this group of aging hippies have never grown up.  There are many that have been allowed to live their lives in an extended adolescence.

As I have opined previously, there must be a self destruct gene that takes hold once a certain level of affluence is achieved.  If so, that’s sad.  It’s doubly sad when these people achieve positions of power and are then able to take others down with them.  They then bring their dubious logic and naive sentiments to impact public policy.  They somehow work their way to become political leaders and teachers or even worse, get a job on MSNBC.  The fact is, big political and social issues are not that interesting to young people.  Most are more consumed about their next Iphone than the next President.  For many, there is no direct link between what happens to them and what is happening on the big world stage.  They don’t have to worry about the big picture because things have always been benign for them.  It will be a severe shock when the adults stop paying the bills.

link No him or her; preschool fights gender bias – Yahoo! News.

It’s not even a slippery slope, Western culture is in full free fall.  The people described in the linked article are seeking to completely eradicate any gender bias at all in the upbringing of small children.  While in today’s increasingly politically correct world, this may not seem that strange, it’s only because of the increasing tolerance to strangeness that society has been made to endure over the past few generations.  The kind of social engineering being pushed by these ‘educators’ is not that different from oh, let’s say the Amish who insist on eschewing modern conveniences in their daily lives.  Certainly, people can do what they wish in an enclosed society, but the actions of these ‘educators’ are being promulgated to society at large, at least in ‘progressive’ Sweden.   Upon reflection, how is this any different from cult behaviour?  Is the entire nation of Sweden becoming a cult?

According to the website toptenz.net, the definition of a cult is:

“…A “cult” typically refers to a  social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding population considers to be outside the mainstream. Cults usually expect a large amount of time and money to be devoted as well. And sometimes a cult will ask the ultimate price, your life…”

The website goes on to list the top organizations which they consider to be cults including, Scientology, The Unification Church, Hare Krishnas as well as the Mansons, Heaven’s Gate and The Branch Davidians.  People in the mainstream of society may find some of their beliefs strange and thus practitioners are viewed somewhat cautiously.  I wonder if the inhabitants of an entire nation can be viewed that way.  Apparently, just because people look like Bjorn Borg or Heidi Klum doesn’t exclude them from living in nutville.

To attempt to ‘de-sex’ kids at a young age is the latest in wrong headed social engineering.  People can deny all they want the different proclivities of the sexes, but it is to deny the process of nature.  As if that’s going to be a winner.  If nature had intended there to be no differences between the sexes, humans would all be hermaphrodites with both sets of sex organs.  We’d in fact be worms with better clothing. Years from now, if humans still survive, scientists will find that there is a suicide gene implanted in some humans which makes them want to destroy themselves.  Either that or a stupid gene, which incidentally would explain a lot of things. 

It’s one thing to live according to a set of beliefs, but when you start to monkey around with the very recipe of nature, the beliefs get a bit suspect.  The Amish may be considered eccentric in their beliefs, but at least they recognize that men are men and women are women.  A darn good arrangement.