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CIVIL
SOCIETY- IS IT LOST?
…Several
newscasts show America has a big uptick in crime, murder, airline passengers
behaving badly, etc. It began to accelerate with BLM & Antifa thugs
rioting, burning, looting, and even murder!
A hot topic among public policy experts is the decline of civil
society. Their misplaced debate is in the context of the lack of
"altruism," of civic pride and "volunteerism," and the loss
of civility among the public at large.
The experts say that such withdrawal and expression of individual
liberty is destroying civil society. These hypocrites are engaging in Orwellian
double-speak. Self-preservation and the power of the individual is a building
block of civil society.
John Locke was one of the favorite philosophers of our Founding
Fathers. He observed a basic scriptural and natural law to be the law of
self-preservation. He described how self-preservation leads to liberty, as one
creates a home, marries another and the couple raises a family.
Liberty becomes a standard only among civilized people who
covenant together in civil society.
In response to the infestation of our institutions and daily lives
by pop culture and its practitioners — and invading hoards bringing with them
their socialism and foreign cultures that you are being forced to bow to — many
families have withdrawn to the privacy and safety of their own homes and
neighborhoods. Only there can they preserve themselves and Christo-Western
culture. This is the first law of nature at work, as it has been consistently
since the advent of Western civilization.
Locke described those who come against individuals and communities
as ravenous wolves to be destroyed by any means. There is no more meaningful
metaphor for us today because what the people don't realize is that they are
making a terrifying trade-off when embracing altruism.
The myth of altruism and "public policy" gives the
government the implied and collective consent to operate as an organized
criminal cartel with impunity. Can you see it? The reason you can't communicate
on political matters with some of your family and neighbors is that the
doctrine of altruism and "public interest" has been imputed to them
and in concert with the government to subvert their own personal liberty.
Anything to the contrary is offensive. It's as if you are not "a patriot."
Once an individual sacrifices him or herself to the collective,
the collective can then sacrifice the individual to further its own ends.
Self-destruction has no equal.
Civil politics
As civil society breaks down, so does civility. We are seeing it
daily in the growing number of attacks — both verbal and physical — by people
on others on the basis of political philosophy. The political elite have used
divide and conquer politics to great effect, creating minority special
interests to pit against one another for spoils and special privileges.
As for the decline of civility, it can also be traced directly to
the same criminal politics. It's a zero-sum game. Virtually every moral,
cultural, spiritual, political, business and civil practice of the middle
class, including civility, has decreased as a public standard in accordance
with the increasing number of special interests and with the increasing number
of laws granting them special privileges.
We now know that the combined onslaught of pop culture and the
official endorsement of what can only be described as immorality aimed at
destroying the family have irretrievably separated the middle class from what
was formerly their own United States of America. That nation is no longer their
own, and so, against the criminality and incivility of the politicians and
alien invaders, the real American nation has withdrawn its borders into the
homes of these average Americans.
Self-preservation is the first organizing factor for nations.
After all, what are borders? The global elite want a world without borders.
Armies and even corporations are organized with self-preservation in mind, both
in structure of specific ranks and duties and in the ways they conduct their
affairs, whether fighting battles or fighting off hostile mergers.
In response to the perversion of our nation, many are reverting to
self-preservation. The streets in our towns and cities are once again becoming
feudal-like "gated communities" out of necessity, with steel bars in
gates and windows everywhere.
Housing developments that are not particularly "high
end" now have high walls, barbed wire and gated entrances with armed
security booths manned around the clock. Private security firms police our
homes because we have learned that the civil police are either ineffective or
corrupted by criminal politicians.
Homes now have dead-bolted and impenetrable doors, sophisticated
electronic alarm systems that automatically notify authorities, barred windows,
security lights, motion detectors, video cameras, guard dogs, etc. Specialists
are hired to design security systems and even to create special homes designed
from the ground up with self-preservation in mind. Inventors are busy coming up
with new, creative ways to preserve our homes and families.
Are we to be ashamed of our desire for self-preservation? Hardly.
The trend toward self-preservation portends good. Perhaps in returning to homes
and communities built for self-preservation, as in feudal times, Americans will
also return to the higher principles of preserving faith and family. Perhaps
then the larger nation can restore its borders — spiritually, morally and
culturally — and thus restore its identity, purpose and civil society.
For now, true liberty exists only at home, and anything that comes
against the home makes war on your family and your attempted self-preservation.
Beware of those who would destroy the power you have as an individual, as a
family, and on your own property – ostensibly in the name of creating a more
civil society.
Power
Locke knew, though only a very few today will remember, that the
word power comes from the Latin posse, which simply means "to be
able."
No, my friend, power originates from within the individual, just
like society arises from the individual that chooses to convene with others.
This ability of the individual to accomplish what needs to be done, to survive,
is what society is based on. Government should be a reflection of that, not the
exercise of it.
Standing up for yourself and what you believe in is right and
true. There is no need to hide!
If you cede your power and your individualism to the group, to the
state, as I have written to you before, the price is a terrible one. You
relinquish your power and individuality at the price of your life.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob
Livingston Letter®
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3 comments:
Personally, I blame lame schools & bad behavior in Hollywood for much of this.
Interesting and true; people have increasingly become spoiled idiots.
oNE LOOK AT HE MOST CRIME RIDDDEN CITIES [run by Dems] tells me these bottom feeders are no longer civilized.
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