Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the root problem that plagues our society is cultural rot, it is manifested in school shootings, random crime, the rise in single mothers, more and more people who are unemployable, the dropping out of young men, rise in self destructive drug use, etc… and since we appear to be absolutely determined to continue down the path to a totally hedonistic, immoral, Godless, cold hearted and intolerant society, there are only two choices to confront the violence, one is to create an Orwellian government where everyone is monitored all the time and there is a phalanx of police ready to pounce at a moment’s notice, or everyone would be armed and proficient such that the advantage of violence would be countered by the disadvantage of the probability of life changing wounds.
The fault lays mostly with the people who decide what height skirts will be this year, the music that will be pushed on the radio, what movies will be made, provide the subliminal messaging in ads, what books will be written, who will be paid to create propaganda, what the critics call genius… and what they call drivel, either through a lack of self awareness that is monumental, or a villainy that is heinous, have steadily lowered the cultural class of the average person for decades, creating an ever more hedonistic, self indulgent, irreverent, irreligious, immoral culture without a whit of self awareness, and continue to lower the standard of conduct and thought that has led us to the point where school shootings are not at all rare and death by depression is common.
Unless the next generation become as the Victorian reaction to the Romantic Era, and our society continues to slide to the abyss that Sodom and Gomorrah went over, driven by people with who knows what true agenda, the random violence, despondency driven drug use, checking out of young men and the economic externalities that inevitably result, we as a society will have to take one of two paths, either weaponize and train everyone to combat the random violence, creating a marshal society, and history shows that marshal societies are never successfully invaded, or subjugated in any way, else we could choose the path of enslavement, and put cameras in every home, a tracker on every person, real time financial monitoring, and a standing army of police to back it all up.
If we choose to become slaves within a totalitarian government system, cogs in the machine if you will, the path is easy, just continue to sleep in that comfort queen quietly, minding the height of skirts while admiring those spandex clad buttocks, gleefully root for your team of choice, whether it be political, sport or brand, while our culture continues to accept ever lower standards of interaction, demands more tolerance for that lowering and at the same time exhibits ever greater intolerance of morality, limited government, entrepreneurship and individual rights, our children will live in a gilded cage of bread and circuses, where their thoughts and actions are strictly limited to the debauched, chained by perversion and dependent on the government for their daily sustenance.
The unthinkable option is to become a marshal society, unthinkable because a marshal society would quickly wrest freedom from the elite, which means the elite would lose their perks, the distinction between rich and poor would corrode, their privilege would diminish, their egos would have to endure a blow of epic magnitude and the elite would have to accept a much smaller role in the lives of their lessers, all these outcomes because a marshal people will not long tolerate usurpers, nor do they have to, the balance of power must shift from the elite, who control the government’s monopoly on violence, back to the people whom that violence is used on, returning society to limited government, laissez faire, self controlled individualists and economic prosperity… until the people are lulled to sleep again.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
