The state of our culture (all the West - we are all in the same boat) is far worse than 20% of the people being uncultured and uneducated.
Modern Western culture is partially ashamed of their accomplishments / their own success, their racial identity, religion, national identity. That is even among those with a so called education and some culture.
This is who we are today:
You will point out that many of the 50% are repeat offenders. But even if you exclude them, you’re still at over 40%.
Of course some of them have true legitimate reasons, but just like abortion, most of it is convenience and a lack of commitment and bad values:
https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2024/one-four-us-women-expected-have-abortion-their-lifetime
If you want to know what our culture and values are, just look at art.
Art is an expression of the values a society has, and what does it say about us in paintings, sculpture, architecture, poetry, plays, music, and movies?
Google can show us what our values are, Google: modern art, post modern art. See what you get.
The neck and hand tattoo is cool today:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/15/32-of-americans-have-a-tattoo-including-22-who-have-more-than-one/
If it’s not some homo-erotic nonsense, it’s still just about sex, drugs, deconstructionism, or simple scandalous shock effect (no meaning really) pretending to be art: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ.
Modern culture in the West has devolved into a primitive, commercialized, faddish/trendy, superficial and often untalented (many artists that can’t even sing, read music, or play an instrument - they are hired by demographics, because they look pretty and can dance).
Our culture pushes leftist ideology in education, the news, and arts, as if this is virtuous. You are basically taught that it’s ethical to repeat these ideas in public.
While I do not like their culture either (oppressive and backward), the Muslims are right about us. We are a decedent, perverted, weird bunch today. Their view of us isn’t entirely wrong when considering what was going on with all that trans lunacy and mutilation of children in the last years...
If you want to know what our values are, look at STD rates: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db280.htm#:~:text=During%202013%E2%80%932014%2C%20prevalence%20of%20any%20genital%20HPV%20was%2042.5,all%2C%20men%2C%20and%20women.
People are getting dummer and public schools tell them how smart they are, while in reality SAT, ACT and standardized testing show something entirely different if you take away the attempts to fudge the numbers by changing the scoring: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Average_SAT_Scores.png
Can you tell me one single movie produced in the last 30 years which makes a Catholic priest look good?
Our culture is a trendy / fashionable, commercialized, highly liberal (can’t tell anyone no nor make a value judgement except if it’s against whites, men, Christians or a free market), trash culture which is in reality “valueless.”
A multi cultural society has a hard time with values and the ONLY common denominator regards values is money.
Recommendation: keep your kids out of public schools, be extra critical with the MSM and social media, be selective with what movies you watch. But since you’re on the FR, you probably do all that already.
Let me begin by confirming that you and I are in general agreement re. the overall sorry state of Western civ.
But let me also point out that your posting is largely just descriptive.
You are simply describing the (static) present situation - not providing analysis, not attempting to trace phenomena back to their socio-economic and sexual roots, etc.
That's fine - but we're trying to identify and understand the dynamics and root causes here.
Now, for a single nit-picks from me:
The state of our culture [...] is far worse than 20% of the people being uncultured and uneducated.
I have no idea where this statement and this figure came from. When discussing, e.g., non-assortative mating, modern dating dynamics, and the like, reference is frequently made to the Pareto distribution (also known as the "80:20 Rule"). But the current level of unculturedness and uneducatedness (whatever it is) has nothing to do with that.
So maybe you just pulled that figure out of your hat and/or are using it as a "placeholder."
In reality, a basic, fourth-grade level of culture (fundamental Western values, discipline and responsibility, esp. re. mate-selection and monogamy) and education (the 4R's) were sufficient for most of U.S. history. Ignorant sharecroppers got along just fine with their rudimentary book-learning and Christian values - a "short list" that would have fit on the back of an envelope.
For the most part, modern Americans do not lack "culture" or "education." Rather, their culture and education have been corrupted and/or supplanted by 3rd-Wave Feminism, notions about progressivism (disguised socialism), DEI, White self-loathing, etc.
(I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that by "uneducated and uncultured," that's what you actually meant, so don't think that I'm trying to attack you here - rather, I just want clarity.)
For some reason, when previewing my post to check for typos, etc., the text stretches horizontally across the entire screen and beyond, necessitating my scrolling to the right to view everything. This is quite inconvenient! Apparently, the Free Republic software is acting strangely this morning. Thus, I am sorry if my text contains any garbled words.
Regards,
