Dear Friends,
It seems to me, attributing to the whole the failings of the minority, is the means to vilifying the whole. Take any random or not random group of people. Some percentage will have every sort of moral failing. Most probably in line with the culture in the aggregate. Since, no matter the group, there will always be people who have demons, any group can be vilified, discredited, denounced and ostracized, by conflating the failings of the few, who will inevitably fail, with the majority in that group. That makes the whole group appear to be villains regardless of it’s actual virtue. Obviously, only a psychopath or sociopath would do such a thing, to make good people appear bad. Yet we see it done constantly by the new class progressive elite in the West.
Families are the backbone of civilization. They are where children are born, nurtured, educated and civilized. The family unit is the atom of civilization. There are those however who would like to see an end to the family unit as it is an impediment to their utopian plans for humanity. Because the Brave New World cannot be ushered in until the family is a thing of the past. In an unrelated thought… have you noticed how fathers are conflated with louts, lazy, ignorant, stupid and useless? It is almost like good fathers are being vilified, discredited and denounced. Fathers being a critical element in the family unit and all. Nevertheless, to any casual observer, the state of the family unit in the second decade of the twenty first century, shows it is in decline on every front.
The vast majority of Catholic priests are righteous, honest, upstanding men, who have dedicated their lives to a higher purpose. A very small minority on the other hand, are evil beyond reckon, as in any and every group of people. Meanwhile, the innocent Catholic priest has been painted with the same brush as the child molester, until many people conflate being a Catholic priest with being a pedophile. This view is encouraged by the cultural elite, promoting it on television, news and film. It is almost as if, the elite are trying to vilify all priests, and thus Catholicism itself. There is a philosophy that openly avows in it’s founding documents that, “religion is the opium of the people,” and establishes atheism as the State religion. Vilifying Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular is a means to that end.
Capitalism has elevated humanity to the point of reaching for the stars. In the thousands or even millions of years humanity might have existed, we have never, (as far as we know) ever reached orbit, let alone the Moon itself. Yet today we are bombarded with capitalism’s failings. The media tells us to ignore the famines of socialism, but to pay close attention to the pollution from capitalism. They never bring up the fact that the former soviet socialist vassal states are environmental nightmares. Let alone the inconvenient truth, that Imperial China’s single party oversees the biggest current environmental disaster on the planet. Their rare earth processing alone has rendered a vast region toxic. We are told to focus on the failings of capitalism, rather than it’s accomplishments… to vilify free enterprise.
Calling good evil and evil good is hard. Since good is beautiful and evil is ugly, good must be made to appear ugly and evil hidden, lest it’s hideous visage repulse too many. Conflating the inevitable bad element of any group, with the whole, is an ideal means to make good appear evil. Claim the few ministers who are evil, are the norm, and Christianity itself is besmirched. Carefully guide people around capitalism’s triumphs, only to show it’s failings, and capitalism is discredited. There will always be alcoholics, wife beaters and layabouts, that is the human condition. To conflate them with hard working, nurturing, sober husbands, lowers the value we place on fathers, thus the family. These are examples of calling good evil, by conflating the minority with the majority, can you think of others?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
