Quick Thought: These headlines now beg the question: - Granite Grok

Quick Thought: These headlines now beg the question:

Stigma

Beyond the Stigma: Residential recovery centers offer refuge to NH moms struggling with addiction”

and

NH gets federal approval to fund syringe services programs

And we’ve all seen the stories about “Free the Nipple” and lately that Trump has come under fire, by Progressives, for calling MS-13 gang members “animals”.  Hollywood sensationalizes bed hopping, our educational system has done a dastardly job at sexualizing our children at earlier and earlier grades, drugs are bad but recovery system marketplace has become a huge industry in its own right (the first headline) even as government supports drug usage (the second headline).  More and more babies are born out of wedlock. Our educational system churns out uneducated students (e.g., “not proficient”).  Traditional values and morality (e.g., “melting pot”, hard work, honesty, duty, honor, self-discipline, frugalness, modesty, respect for others, speech not composed of swearing, a sense of politeness and chivalry by both sexes, a belief in God (or if you prefer, a Higher Power greater than one’s self) are continuing to be ground down into the dirt.

Stigma actually served a purpose – instead of formal laws, it was a tool by Civil Society to isolate bad behavior from itself.  By stigmatizing behavior not conducive to a civil society, it was a form of inoculation in creating a barrier from a “societal illness” from spreading.  Society knew what behaviors worked and were productive to society as a whole – and which ones weren’t.  They didn’t have to be legislated – they were organic because they WORKED and were found to be trustworthy over time.  Sure, some abused them by ignoring them and some abused them by using them for self-gain and power over others but in general, they served society at large well.

Traditional social mores haven’t just been stigmatized themselves, they’ve been broken, smashed, and the “brick wall” that I’ve used to analogize our Society has had so many bricks removed from it, its a wonder we have much of a Society left at all. We wonder why young boys shoot up schools and kill their classmates – yet we won’t round up gang bangers shooting not just others in their own or rival gangs but innocents as well (ever read the evergreen posts on Monday telling of the carnage that happened in Chicago over weekend?).

So with all that said, what is left to “un-stigmatize” of what used to be classified as bad behavior? After all, there are those out there now saying that NAMBLA should be respectable – and incest too.

Who / what is it that is driving it?  And why are traditional values no longer valued?  What is the end game?

My own thoughts on that last question is to have no traditional mores at all – by removing them all, a “new” society can be engineered around different values.  Go back to that first question of who is driving it and add to it “Why?”.

Consider this an open thread on the Sunday before Memorial Day when we contemplate those that lived and breathed for this country – and then breathed no more.  What would they say about our Society that they gave their all for?  Your thoughts are welcome.

 

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