Whenever there is a tragedy here in America like what we witnessed in Uvalde, Texas we often hear phrases like “We need to do something?” or “We need change now!” But if we want real change we must get to the root of the problem. The heart of the issue. When we peel back the layers and do enough digging, we aren’t going to like what we find because the core of America’s soul is rotted from the inside out. As we constantly hear people and politicians spewing off nonsense and political rhetoric on social media demanding that change needs to happen now nearly every single one are shouting what they don’t understand. They go to their social media accounts and instantly start typing giving no thought for what they are even reading or considering the source of what they are sharing. People share their feelings because it sounds good to them. Every single one of them refuse look at the heart of the matter because it’s not a pretty sight and they refuse to believe what the truth simply because it doesn’t fit their worldview. People today will believe a lie if it sounds good to their version of the truth. If we want to understand what happened at Uvalde, Texas we need to retrace our steps and see where we took a wrong turn on this path we are currently on. How did we get here? Why does this keep happening? We have to go back about 70 years. [1]
Let’s start with the 1950’s. Many, predominately on the left, had pointed out the widespread problems of racism and sexism in American society. As they diagnosed the problem their aim was not try and better the system but rather to utterly lay waste to it. This diagnosis, as is with all diagnosis’ in societies problems today, was self-serving. Ever since the days of Karl Marx, many on the left had always viewed the principles of western civilization as the root of the problem and this foundation needed to be destroyed with a new utopia built over top of it and they have been slowly chipping away at the values and principles that made America truly great in the eyes of the world ever since.
I use the term “left” several times because it is generally those with far-left ideologies that contradict not only America’s core principles but western civilization in general. The left claimed that all ills in society could be laid at the feet of the system they absolutely despised.
Many young Americans that lived through the turbulent social and cultural change of the 1960’s identified with the messages of Marx, Mao, and Marcuse. Herbert Marcuse made popular the phrase “make love, not war.” Students during the 1968 revolt in Paris carried banners reading MARX, MAO, AND MARCUSE.
These students were praising men whom they didn’t fully understand but it felt good and their message resonated with their cause. So these men were praised as heroes to the counterculture. Marcuse advocated for certain types of speech to be banned. He said that “freedom was serving the cause of oppression, so therefore oppression could serve the cause of freedom.” Speech could then be labeled violence. He then argued further that we needed to reexamine the issue of violence. The traditional distinction between violent and non-violent action. This then led to reexamining the traditional distinction between violent and non-violent speech.
If violent action and speech could be re-written and re-defined all in the name of tolerance then the culture in academia could be changed. If you could control what is taught and accepted in academia which our environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, then you can control the narrative and truth becomes subjective. Truth becomes what main stream says it is.
Many of the youth of the 1960’s largely embraced the teachings of Marx, Mao, and Marcuse because they were looking for a change in the system because they bought in to the idea that the system itself needed destroyed because everything about the American Dream was evil and needed replaced. Again, replaced with what? What type of revolution were they trying to usher in? A Change to what?
We keep hearing that we need a change today? A change to what? What are you suggesting when you say change?
Those that follow the teachings of Karl Marx have been attempting to destroy the very fabric of western civilization for years and now they are on the verge of realizing that dream of theirs. They are targeting the very same demographic they always have: our youth.
You want change? You will get it. You will see the marketplace of ideas come to die. The idea of thought and individualism will be cast out. You will be forced to think how and what those in academia think or your thought and speech will be deemed violent and intolerable.
Evil is in the heart of man. You take away the gun and you still have an evil heart. Until we want to tackle the heart of the issue we will still be getting the same results. So when you demand change, you really have no idea what you are advocating for. You are just shouting nonsense and political rhetoric because you are angry.
Shouting nonsense solves nothing. Getting to the root cause of the problem is the start of “fixing” the issue. But we have to be willing to get down on our hands and knees, roll up our sleeves, and start digging otherwise we will lose the soul of our nation if we haven’t already. Time is ticking.
[1] Shapiro, Ben. The Right Side of History. Pg. 192-193.
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