Posted on 05/16/2015 3:03:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I think about America, I think of the Founding Fathers who were willing to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” to defeat Great Britain and make this a free country. I think of John Paul Jones saying, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." I think not only of the brave men who died fighting for their countrymen at the Alamo, but of Sam Houston and his force slaughtering a Mexican force twice their size in retaliation during the Battle of San Jacinto. I think of Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in the chest by an assassin at a political rally and then FINISHING his 90 minute speech before getting medical attention.
I think of the line from George Patton’s speech that was immortalized in the movie,
"When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
Americans toughed it out through the Depression, saved the world in WWI, WWII and the Cold War -- and then just to put a cherry on top of it, we put a man on the moon.
We live in a warrior culture. Our most popular movies feature gun-toting SEALS, ferocious cops who dispense justice one bullet at a time and superheroes who throw tanks farther than you can throw a Frisbee. We love mixed martial arts and football where 300 pound behemoths slam into each other with enough force to break a normal man’s back on every play. Even our children play video games that quite literally allow them rip their virtual opponent’s heart out and show it to them before they die.
Despite all of that, this country has become increasingly soft and decadent. What the hell happened to us?
How did we get to the point where our politicians have handcuffed the greatest military in the history of Planet Earth to such an extent that we can’t seem to ultimately “win” wars anymore? How did our rules of engagement become so restrictive that we’d rather see our own men die or even lose the war rather than win and kill enemy civilians at the same time?
How did we turn into a nation where parents face jail time for letting kids play unsupervised in the park?
How did our colleges turn into romper rooms where pitiful mediocrities demand “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” when they hear someone disagrees with them?
How have we gotten to the point where there are so many Americans who EXPECT OTHER PEOPLE to buy their food, pay off their college loans, chip in for the mortgage, take care of their health care and hand them a shiny, happy life wrapped up in a bow – all presumably because their very existence is so wonderful that we should be grateful to have them around?
How is it that the biggest complaint that most young women have about most men today is their stunning lack of masculinity?
How is it that so many people idolize cops and soldiers who do whatever it takes to get the job done on the big screen and then endlessly complain about the men who do that dirty, tough and chaotic work in the real world?
How did we get to the point where we reward and celebrate victims with gushing articles and GoFundMe accounts while many successful people are treated like they committed a crime by actually outperforming other people by a large enough margin to get a huge financial reward for it?
How did our political discussions and much of our culture become dominated by whichever pathetic wimps are fastest to cry out that they’re “offended” or that someone else is being “insensitive?”
Whatever happened to manning up? Whatever happened to taking pride in supporting yourself and your family? Whatever happened to the nation that rewards doers, not the people who are most creative about coming up with new ways to claim life is unfair?
Have we had so much financial success that we’ve become a silver spoon nation full of spoiled brats?
If so, we better wake up because America can’t pay its bills and the higher our taxes and government spending get, the poorer our nation is going to become. The bigger the tick gets, the less blood there is for the dog.
Has our society become so over-feminized that we’ve stop embracing many of the more manly virtues that have made us a great nation?
If so, we better remember that it wasn’t our wonderful communication skills and sensitivity to people’s feelings that made this a great nation. We became a superpower because we out-built, out-fought and outworked everyone else.
Have we gotten so confident of our place in the world without the Soviet Union to challenge us that we believe being a rich superpower is our unchallenged birthright?
If so, then we should remember that today’s superpower is tomorrow’s Ottoman Empire. The haunting end of Shelley’s classic poem Ozymandias should speak to us…
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
All of America hasn’t descended into mewling about First World problems and caterwauling about grievances previous generations of Americans would have laughed at. We have soldiers fighting for our freedom, a thin blue line protecting us from thugs on the streets, firemen risking their lives, hardnosed capitalists running their businesses and plenty of tough, independent, self-reliant Americans who work hard, play by the rules and who don’t need to be babied along.
If America’s future is going to be as bright as its past, we need a lot more tough people who can solve their own problems and a lot fewer wimpy, whining children masquerading as adults.
-— So many of our ills can be traced back to the rise of human ingenuity and how it accelerated during and after the industrial revolution. -—
The average lifespan has doubled with industrialization. Focusing on the ills associated with the world’s first industrial revolution is like focusing on the ills associated with inoculations.
And farm work in the 1880s was no picnic either.
Actually, what happened is that the Europacifist mentality resulting from WW II permeated the “Europe is always better” mind set of the northeastern states. The liberal politicians both Republican and Democrat have this mindset.
The 60’s radicals who declared there would be no more war are in control of the American government. They are the present equivalent of the traitorous loyalists who favored the crown in the Revolution.
All those north eastern states must be purged from the Union to Save what is left.
Wimps? I think it was when artificial birth control became available ( and immediately socially acceptable) men and boys were suddenly agreeable to everything as long as it doesn’t upset tgeir ‘living a seventeen year old’s dream
Abortion would stop in a minute if guys in general were to say just stop abortion, which they do not. They let it be a women’s issue. It is not its two parents killing the offspring.
Has societal effects
This is one of them
Just an opinion
The discussion of the root cause of today’s ills can take you quite a way back in time. I posit that that mechanization and technology are the source of a lot of upheaval — led to unions and communism, mass media (mind control and propaganda), birth control (sexual “liberation”). And this has ultimately led to the pussification of society as Hawkins discusses.
Of course there are huge benefits and we all enjoy long life spans, good health, unbounded luxury, abundant food, and freedom. Who would want it any other way? Most of mankind’s history is of want, bondage, war, and misery.
I also think the author goes a bit overboard here. This isn't necessarily something pernicious going on in America. It's the natural consequence of technological advancement brought about by extreme affluence.
How are they supposed to learn to be manly in the current environment?
Perhaps you or your nephew could be so kind as to tell me where he is fighting to protect my freedom and from enemy that could threaten my peace.
For you see, your nephew is fighting to make a fe rich richer, but not to free me, for if he were fighting to free me, he would have Washington under siege and the borders would be secure.
“I watch the destruction of my country with no one willing to get out of a chair,away from the computer or away from the table to do something about it.”.......
I do not mean to sound offensive when I say, stop “watching” and do something about it. There are millions of us out here that can/will help. The real problems are lack of a true leader and where to start.
We have an election coming in another year. Who ever gets the position of POTUS will have to be a strong leader with plans to retake this once great nation away from the hands of those who hell bent on destroying it. Perhaps it is YOU!
“I watch the destruction of my country with no one willing to get out of a chair,away from the computer or away from the table to do something about it.”.......
I do not mean to sound offensive when I say, stop “watching” and do something about it. There are millions of us out here that can/will help. The real problems are lack of a true leader and where to start.
We have an election coming in another year. Who ever gets the position of POTUS will have to be a strong leader with plans to retake this once great nation away from the hands of those who hell bent on destroying it. Perhaps it is YOU!
Add to this the fact a lawyer is capable of destroying your life and yeah, more people are less willing to help in a situation.
I’m masculine, aggressive, competitive, capable, and accountable. I’m also a white man, which makes my opinion unwanted. Fine, I refuse to participate in your stupid society.
Liberalism then happily took over the helm of a rudderless ship. For example, how many of the Ten Commandments does Liberalism promote breaking? Answer: all of them. What kind of a blessing and happiness can we as a people expect from that attitude and behavior system running our nation and being embraced by our people?
When over half the people in the country will vote for somebody primarily on the basis they have a vagina while they knowingly ignore their bad character, you know we are crossing over the Rubicon and are rowing into Hell, not the sunny uplands of a happy future.
When you look at most of the counterculture in America it had kind of the same theme. Recreational drugs, promiscous sex and alternative music with a counterculture message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7NJ9ylAhos
Its started well before the hippies.
The reality is drugs,sex,music and self indulgence feels good. Short term.
In modern times we have A LOT more distractions and self indulgences. Facebook, video games and other instantaneous entertainment. Not to mention everything is automated. So, now you don’t even have to hold a door open for an elderly person. You don’t even have to turn a water faucet on or flust a toilet! It makes it much easier to be in your own world.
And this article explains the tagline I’ve had for awhile
It’s all the estrogen in our food and water taken in tandem with the public school’s ‘war on (some) boys’.
That’s why feminism will cease to exist in 50 years or so. It’s not compatible with human nature.
Wow, that’s interesting stuff.
Thanks for the post!
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