Posted on 02/11/2010 8:54:12 AM PST by qam1
What if the sympathy for terrorism and the drive toward socialism, the falling birth rates and cultural bankruptcy in civilized countries, the economic decay and decline of the family all had a common cause? What if that common cause lay behind the multitude of ways that we can see civilization collapsing around us. Following that cause will require a brief journey, not into the realm of geopolitics or global economics, but into the human spirit.
They say that the child is father to the man. But what becomes of the man when the child never grows up? That is the unfortunate question that civilization as we know it, is confronted by. That is the question it will have to answer if it wants to survive.
The journey from child to man occurs in three stages. ADULATION. REBELLION. INTEGRATION. The child adulates the parent. Then as the adolescent is forced to begin transitioning into the adult role, he responds with rebellion. When he takes on into his adult role, integration occurs.
Generally speaking, this cycle occurs individually within families, but it also occurs on a generational level, as a generational rebellion gives way to its integration into the larger cycle of a nation, a group and their history. And just as the rebellion of the adolescent helps him discover his talents and leads to his integration, a generational rebellion helps define a generation's ability to join with and contribute to their country.
What happens however when this cycle is aborted at the Rebellion stage, is a perpetual adolescence or a case of arrested development, in which there is a constant rebellion driven by a compulsion to see the world in childish ways in order to maintain the constants of childhood......
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“What is Behind the Collapse of Civilization?”
Rap. Of course that could just be a symptom.
Sheeple!
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The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
- 1943 speech “Industrial Management in a Republic” by H. W. Prentis, president of the Armstrong Cork Company and former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Rebellion is itself an artificial phenomenom that is symptomatic of a decaying culture; in many cultures and among western subcultures such as Christian homeschoolers (in general), the youth do not go through this phase. I don’t believe they did so in earlier eras of our country either, as a widespread, general pattern. The youth in a healthy culture move from the adulation/trust of young childhood into integration without substantial rebellion.
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. The ego you seek, that essential "you" which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your "feeling". - Ayn Rand
They, they, they, they, etc. - Sultan Knish
Name, names
Good read. Thanks for posting.
Marx looks eerilly black in that picture lol
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
Antonio Gramsci
Business, politics, government, academia, the markets, etc., are dominated at the highest levels by people with arrested development.
The Democrats are stuck in the infantile stages, crying for someone else to change their diaper, fetch them milk, and obsessing over body parts and functions, totally incapable of grasping or communicating anything beyond the toddler level of existence.
The RINOs are stuck in pre-adolescence, obsessing on winning short-term regardless of the long-term consequences to themselves, others or the nation.
The phrase "Ivy League retards" is most appropriate to describe these people whose academic credentials indicate that they should know better, but don't. They are functioning at various levels of childhood.
Lack of suffering. The value of civility is forgotten without knowledge of a world without it.
Can this go NATIONWIDE???
Dead he is, and that’s a good thing. However he did uncalculable damage to society...
You're right. I like to think of him as dead, but you probably ought not restrict yourself to use of the past tense.
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