All Marxist, socialist and communist (i.e. authoritarian) ideology is geared toward controlling populations under the guise of encouraging free expression
Instilling a culture of disrespect and self-loathing
It's been a loooong time in the making but we've achieved a new height in cultural degradation. (Sounds like an oxymoron and, in a way, it is.) Decades of social decline have brought the western world to a morbid abasement of civility. Plain terms? Name calling of the worst kind has been normalized.
But how did we get here? Steadily chipping away at common discourse by every means available...and it wasn't accidental. It was purposeful in order to devalue only one form of life--human.
Here's another angle of the oxymoronic part of the scenario. It's the humanist creed that inspired all of the foul language and demonization of--wait for it--humanity. Should you think that it's only certain strains of humanity that carry the brunt of this vile hatred, that's not really the case as this last week's (and recent years') events made clear.
It's no longer just reverse racism deriding "white folks" or the left vilifying conservatives, it's people of any kind of color and women scorning themselves with crudities that have no place in civil society. Go on, keep trying to tell the world that black people calling themselves the n-word makes it an endearment, or one woman using the c-word to describe another woman makes it an acceptable expression.
Please get this straight, repulsive language is still repulsive no matter to whom it is applied. Call yourself a derisive term and it means you have no self-respect and that includes black folks calling themselves the n-word. Women referring to themselves as "nasty" means they believe themselves to be nasty, and that's hardly a compliment. By the way, Candidate Trump calling Hillary a "nasty woman" drew attention to being "mean spirited" as liberals like to call everyone but themselves. The invocation applied by the women's movement has a decidedly different overtone alluding to sexuality (witness the pink hat brigade) rather than personality.
The problem is that over the last 50 years, the cool thing has been to challenge civility by continually integrating vulgarities into speech so they become common forms of expression. The reality is the uncensored usage of vulgarity makes the speaker common. The attempt to belittle the listener ends up diminishing the speaker's self-image, and this has been a deliberate intent of progressive education. The less one thinks of themselves, the more they are prone to attack and debase others, all in a futile attempt to raise their self-value.
This accomplishes the debasement of everyone until individualism is nothing more than an unrealized concept. Why? Because it then becomes more important to fit in by accepting the degrading language and actions of the devolving social order that then allows self-appointed leaders to step in and "guide" the roiling masses into a "better" environment. All Marxist, socialist and communist (i.e. authoritarian) ideology is geared toward controlling populations under the guise of encouraging free expression.
Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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