[nathanbedford]

John Dewey, The Frankfurt School, and Saul Alinsky have had their way with us for a century and it has resulted in the exaltation of the collective over the individual. The movement these people represent holds that the individual is not culpable either for his sins or for his crimes because it is society who has failed the criminal and the siner by failing properly to educate and motivate him. Hence, there are no sins and there are no sinners and we are becoming more and more hard-pressed to say that there are criminals.

All this comes from an original source, how do we view the essential nature of man? The conservative, as an inheritor of the Judeo-Christian tradition views man as a fallen creature, a sinful creature, one who is in need of education, yes, but more importantly a creature in need of redemption. The leftist sees man as a tabula rasa, an empty field upon which society, led by elite leftists, can with proper stimulation (think of rats in a Skinner box) condition the individual into conformity with the values of the mass.

So John Dewey starts in kindergarten and eliminates merit from a list of virtues taught to children, indeed, the whole concept of good and evil, merit and the lack of it, and especially competition are systematically eradicated from the child's world. Although it comes from a leftist, the old joke about all children being above average is too revealing to be funny.

The whole thrust of the liberal criminal justice system is to eliminate the idea of guilt and culpability and substitute rehabilitation. In the process, guilt is generalized, the individual is exculpated in society is blamed.

The process of generalizing from the individual to the mass is applied by leftists across the board and we see it in spades in the workplace. It is in the interests of employers to find and fix fault and correct them to increase efficiency and profit but it is in the interest of the politician to insinuate himself into that process and distort it so that he dominates the process. So we see a plethora of rules, regulations, union influence etc. all of which tend to see the employee not as an individual but as a unit of a greater mass. The whole idea of collective bargaining is to destroy individual responsibility as it destroys the relationship between master and servant. The politician wants the employee beholden to him so he devises a system which recognizes the employee as part of the mass beholden to the politician rather than the employer. In the process individual responsibility is lost.

Dennis Prager was absolutely right when he said that your view of politics depends on your view of the nature of man.

[headstamp 2]

“Dennis Prager was absolutely right when he said that your view of politics depends on your view of the nature of man.”

So absolutely true.

[daniel1212]

John Dewey, The Frankfurt School, and Saul Alinsky have had their way with us for a century and it has resulted in the exaltation of the collective over the individual....The whole thrust of the liberal criminal justice system is to eliminate the idea of guilt and culpability and substitute rehabilitation.

Thanks. It is part of the victim entitlement mentality described in Scripture. And you should like this: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html

[Bigg Red]

Well said — as usual.

[jonathonandjennifer]

You are so right in everything you said. Children’s tv and books are all about cooperation, and little or nothing about the triumph of the individual.