Nick - in all of your pondering and wondering what went wrong in our culture, I'm wondering if you noticed that there is a common denominator.
Did you ever stop and ask yourself- why is it that the liberals stand for everything and anything yet they remain united against the conservatives? Conservatists on the other hand have a much more narrow definition of who is considered friend or foe.
What's the key? If you want to be united with the liberals, all you have to do is hold a belief against Christian and biblical principles - then you're part of the team. You see, our country was founded on Christianity and biblical principles - the founding fathers were all Christian. Our laws were even written with reference to specific verses of the bible back then. Our Bill of Rights was derived from the Magna Carta and the Ten Commandments. (Goggle "Magna Carta" "Ten Commandments") - so all you have to do to join the united liberal front is oppose a tenet of Christianity and the bible. I strongly recommending reading America's Real War written by a Jewish Rabbi. Since most people have fallen away from taking their faith seriously, most cannot see this otherwise obvious connection.
The Ten Commandments is the foundation, a well defined foundation, to build civilization. Take that away, then nothing can be agreed upon and laws are made that contradict each other and before you know it what is right is wrong and oppression sets in. Most conservatists don't understand this, they only know that they want what the constitution lays out but without understanding the context of how it came about. It's Christain Christain Christain - not multicultural nor is it Libertarian where God is removed from the picture.
Christiananity is misrepresented and dismissed by popular culture as oppressive, backward, and closed minded in this country - that is exactly the cause of this cultural demise you ponder without end - and exactly where those who want to bring down this country attacked first in the culture war.
Nick, you give far too much credit to those 'few' feminists that have such influence. You see, they are pawns to the evil that unites the liberal forces against God, truth, and reason. The Evil Empire and Axis of Evil, that two conservative presidents spoke of, is in our own backyard. Feminism is only one part of it.
Dostoevsky's character Ivan Karamazov says "without God, everything is permitted." (Brothers Karamazov)
What he means by that is that, if there are no consequences for actions that can be imposed after death, then death is the end of the game. Whoever dies with the most toys, wins. Whoever has had the most fun, screwed the most women, had the most laughs, has had the "best" life. Many things follow from that premise, none of them good for the survival of civilization.
The only law then becomes "Do as you Will, just don't get caught". We see that attitude alot in our elites.
Beautiful post. Thanks. Still digesting.
How do Jews fit in to this picture.
By the way, what would be a non-Jewish rabbi?