Posted on 11/21/2009 4:50:02 PM PST by daniel1212
Moral degeneration refers to the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of morality. The condition of moral degeneration is seen as concomitant with the decline of the quality of life, and the decline of nations. In the words of Judge Devlin, "an established morality is as necessary as good government to the welfare of society. Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures."
The United States
America is seen to be somewhat unique in the degree of moral foundation which was it founded upon, with a strong Biblically based influence, which was strengthened as a result of religious revivals, and which affected a strong union of faith and civil life in the new Republic. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville commented,
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live."
1960 and beyond
The decade of the 1960's would begin a dramatic moral change in America's history. While a more developed moral social consciousness helped to effect beneficial and needed changes, such as in the area of civil rights, as regards such non-moral aspects as race and color, this recognition of basic equality was used by liberal moralists to advocate liberty for immorality in word and in deed... The 1960's culminated with Woodstock 69, with the decade being marked by rebellion against authority in general (though usually not to living off it) and against capitalism, and the promotion and practice of pre-marital sex, recreational drug use, the rise of feminism and the advocation of liberal ideology in general.
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Educating children in right and wrong is the very basic education that everything else builds on.
You can quote me on that.
Decline of morals can be traced back before the sixties.
There was the youth culture of the fifties.
And the reduced modesty of women’s fashions that began in the roaring twenties.
And the promotion and glamorization of alcohol, gambling, violence, and sex trades that happened as a result of the prohibition.
My opinion is that america’s morality decline began in the roaring twenties with greed, materialism...and the frivolous nature of women that became the norm at the time.
The markets crashed because it was all about easy money, not about real progress...like a tech bubble or a housing bubble.
I think it is more correct to say that "an established morality is 'prerequisite' to good government." The cesspools of the world, like Somolia for example, are cesspools because of the morality, or lack thereof, of the people who live there.
The biggest casualty of the progressive movement has been the truth. It is nowhere to be found. Just look at your phone bill, lies and obfuscation. Check you ticket at the grocery stores , a lot of the sales just do not pan out. The tv news is chock full of half truths. Global warming? How about our elected officials? Lying is the sin that precedes all others.
The deeper issue is on what basis right and wrong is determined. The effect of Christian based morality cannot be underestimated, and the educational role of the N E Primer and McGuffey’s reader. See http://www.nps.gov/jeff/historyculture/upload/mcguffey.pdf
This was being effected even before National education. School systems in large cities could also function with little oversight, such as in Baltimore, where the public schools in 1890 employed only two superintendents for the entire district of 1,200 teachers. Despite this, public schools across America were notably similar, with children learning both the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the basics of good behavior – the latter being enforced when necessary by corporal punishment.http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html
Where would America be if it was based upon San Francisco/ Folsom street fair morality? This evidences much of where it is going, apart from a another Great Awakening: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html
According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization"....=========---KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
Indeed. “Coincidentally”, that is when the McGuffey’s reader began to be replaced. Who here knows about John Dewey? “Train up a child in the way he should go”, has its demonic counterpart, and he has its disciples.
The article does note, under Early to mid 20th century,
Morally, much effort was expended in passing Prohibition in the United States (1920 to 1933), while during the same period the Roaring 20’s manifested a marked degree of cultural rejection of traditional moral decency.
It was a very different time in so many ways.
I thought I would note in passing that about 20-25 years ago The Vermont Country Store (catalog store) sold McGuffey Readers. Today it no longer caries those, but sells "intimate solutions".
As said before, what defines “good” is the key. The atheistic basis for morality allowed Mao, Pol Pot, etc, to justify their atrocities, as they seemed “reasonable” to gaining their supposedly beneficial ends, while MuhamMAD’s hijacking of the Bible did to Him. Meanwhile, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, but wanting to be tried, but insofar as America was influenced by its principles and uncorrupted understanding of its precepts it benefited, and others entered in the labors of those who built its foundation.
caries = carries
Phone bill is not bad, but gas bill here is much obfuscation. But liberalism, largely runs on emotion, not objectivity and sound reason.
Today many schools have full time police officers and metal detectors. It's different. Very different.
Our moral foundation has crumbled in many part of the country and now we get government tyranny. Degeneracy and tyranny go together. We have to keep working to roll back the tyranny, but a lot of people, driven by greed and lacking a spirit of thankfulness, feel entitled to get “freebies” from other people.
A lot of people, IMO, will need to suffer before we regain our freedoms.
Thanks for the link. Does this have anything to do with the media’s role in helping Hanoi in the Vietnam war?
CBS Evening News with [[Walter Cronkite]]’’ regularly carried news reports from its [[Moscow]] Bureau Chief, Bernard Redmont . When peace negotiations commenced with North Vietnam in Paris, Redmont became ‘’CBS News’’ Paris Bureau Chief. What Redmont never reported during the ten year conflict was, Redmont had been a KGB operative since the 1930s, and member of the notorious Silvermaster group.
West German correspondent Uwe Siemon-Netto asked,
What prompted us to make our readers believe that the Communists, once in power in all of Viet Nam, would behave benignly? What made us, first and foremost Anthony Lewis, belittle warnings by U.S. officials that a Communist victory would result in a massacre?... Are we journalists not in part responsible for the death of the tens of thousands who drowned? And are we not in part responsible for the hostile reception accorded to those who survive?...However, the media have been rather coy; they have not declared that they played a key role in the conflict. They have not proudly trumpeted Hanoi’s repeated expressions of gratitude to the mass media of the non-Communist world, although Hanoi has indeed affirmed that it could not have won “without the Western press.”
http://conservapedia.com/Vietnam_War#Media_Bias
(Jude 1:4) “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Time for a “sigh and cry” ministry. (Ezek 9:4) “And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.”
But we cannot do what the next verse requires, but the Lord and His saints will in His time and by His means. (Jude 1:14,15; Rev. 19:14-18) May we all be on the Lord’s side, daily, and to His glory.
The country I was born into is no more and it will probably take a populsr revolution to take it back. What was once the greatest sucess story in all the history of nations has been turned into a poor reflection of European social democracy.
I’m almost glad I won’t be around to see my country relegated to a second-rate nation.
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