Posted by
Nikko on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:53:14 PM
"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Culture has got to go." This chant was heard on the campus of Stanford University some years ago. The leader of this group of protesting students was none other than Jesse Jackson.
Diversity
and Moral Relativism, where no idea is superior to another, are
dangerous metaphors for division, confusion and mediocrity. College
students fall prey to what G. K. Chesterton said about people, "When
people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, -- they
believe in anything."
Diversity programs and sensitivity
training are sold by the multicultural activists as the great equalizer
while it is really the grand promoter of mediocrity, the enemy of
excellence and individual achievement. It is "bogus" in the words of
the author
of "Illiberal Education" Dinesh D'Souza, "that it does
not reflect the temper or the accomplishment of other cultures but a
distorted and prejudicial view of Western Culture." He continues by
saying
that "Multicultural education, in general, is inspired by
political activists who are alienated from what they see to be the
racism, the sexism, and the homophobia of the West."
It is bogus in that the multicultural activists do not like
what
they see abroad so they look to non-representative figures, figures who
do not reflect the temper or the accomplishment of their own cultures,
but who reflect the political prejudices of Western culture, and yet it
is being fed to us with a shovel as politically correct. This way we do
not offend anyone, yet it
takes away that very right of free speech that the ACLU claims to
be defending.
One
example of this bogus attempt to distort and create a prejudicial view
of Western culture is the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu
Tum. Research into her background revealed that she had been lying all
along. The story that informed of Rigoberta's secular sainthood cane
apart following research carried out by Anthropologist David Stoll. His
research, confirmed by the New York Times, and reported by Nathanael
Blake in his article of April 21, 2006 revealed that she was not
illiterate, she had been educated in a prestigious Catholic boarding
school.
The land dispute that was considered central to her
formulating her Marxist beliefs did not pit her family against wealthy
landowners. It was actually against their own relatives. Other facts
included in the report stated that her brother Nicolas, did not die of
starvation, but was alive and well in Guatemala. It does not matter if
these are lies, her lies are noble, according to her supporters, for
the normal standards of historical accuracy do not apply since her her
falsehoods supposedly served a good cause.
Multicultural
education is too important to leave in the hands of the activists and
ideologues. They tend to divide rather than unite. We live in a
multiracial society and we should be looking for the commonality of all
Americans. Those traits that we share in common as Americans not as
hyphenated-Americans but as Americans without divided loyalties. We now
see "illegal" Mexicans and members of the Hispanic community carrying
Mexican flags and signs claiming that Europeans are illegal and have
been since 1492. Their aim is not "immigration" per Se (which has long
been provided by the U.S. through legal means), but anarchy, similar to
the Cloward-Piven strategy of the sixties and seventies that exploited
group rage in order to advance the cause of "social justice."
Since
F.D.R. populated the Court with judicial activists, we have seen the
Supreme Court Justices, with their belief that the Constitution is a
"Living Document" subject to all manner of judicial interpretation,
legislate from the bench by issuing rulings based on their personal
interpretation of the Constitutiion or that of the liberal left.
Prior to the ascent of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency,
the
courts were still populated with originalists, who properly rendered
legal interpretation based on a strict construction of the
Constitution's "original intent."
The institutions examined here all seem to have the same failing. They are inclined to see government and the art of governing as requiring the existence of a power elite. Senator Kennedy and others of the Democratic left, who feel that the Judicial Branch of government is the only branch sensitive to Social Justice Agendas, are inclined to see themselves as the only ones
with distant vision and capacity to see things whole and that they must
come to play a superior role. It is Socialism or Communism in disguise.
It has been disguised as progressivism, liberalism, secular humanism,
and eventually environmentalism, feminism, and a vast assortment of
other "social justice" causes.
Christianity teaches individualism, as defined by the radical command of Christ that we love our neighbors as our selves and not the secular individualism focused on the desires of the self. It is not a matter of self-constituting autonomy but of living out the singular, God-given destiny that is every human life. Properly understood, individualism does not lead to isolation or withdrawal from society. Quite the contrary, it actually promotes involvement in society. If one loves his neighbor as he loves himself, he will be reciprocal of his neighbor and helping his community in any way that he can. He does not see his neighbor as part of a group or class, but as an individual deserving of the dignity and respect that he himself, as an individual, expects from everyone else.
Indeed, it is now clear that a silent revolution in values set in among Europeans after 1963 which destroyed the Christian values of responsibility, sacrifice, altruism and sanctity of long term commitments. These values as such can only be sustained through knowledge and faith.
We cannot ignore reality
for long and dismiss the interests of the nation as a whole as alien to
our own interests. We are one nation and one people and we must live,
work, govern and be governed in the same manner. Only through
knowledge, hight purpose and the use of self restraint in the excercise
of power can this nation determine whether a government of separated
powers will continue to endure. Surely our Governors, State Legislators
and the United States Congress and Senators can see that they have the
power, as our elected representatives, to change the direction of those
promoting the destruction of our Constitution or face the consequence
of the People changing them.
We hear them, the conservative
media talk show hosts day in and day out talking about the ACLU and the
liberal left, the disinformation of the mainstream media and they keep
us informed of the real issues that we face. We can easily find
agreement with them but someone must act in order to change the current
direction.
Our nation is experiencing a power struggle.
Secular Humanism and Moral Relativism is attempting to gain power
through the reversal of human norms, natural law, and the social
institutions that are so necessary for the continuance of freedom an
democracy in our time. Socialism is their goal. Socialism that destroys
that individualism that Christianity teaches.
In his book, "The
Everlasting Man," G.K.Chesterton described this reversal process as the
"theology of demons" and said that it was sadistically anti-human and
anti-childhood. It is intrinsically evil. It is a malignancy-filled
system of philosophy posturing as something seemingly inocuous in order
to infect Christendom and the individualism of Christianity in the
United States of America.
David Horowitz writes about the
academic circles and popular culture that gives rise to the prominence
of the likes of Noam Chomsky as the expression of an anti-American
cult. We are the "Great Satan" and this is what is being taught in our
universities. Another academic who is revered is Howard Zinn,
intellectual "guru" to movie and music celebrities, who penned 700
pages of Marxist caricature with "A Peoples History of the United
States" claiming nation-states are merely a fiction, and only economic
classes are "real" social actors. These and others seek only to divide
this country. They are traitors and we need to weed them out of our
universities.
Even the likes of Notre Dame, the flagship of
American Catholic Institutions, and the Jesuit institutions such as
Georgetown are falling prey to multiculuralism and diversity ploy. The
president of Notre Dame defended the presentation of the "Vagina
Monologues" on campus as an example of diversity. What ever happened to
right and wrong and just plain bad taste. The Catholic Church does
nothing.
The list of academic institutions who preach and teach
anti-American and anti-Christian dogma to our children is growing
daily. Morality becomes a key issue when the myth of moral neutrality
is taught and has become one of the most entrenched assumptions of
moral relativism in our society today. They talk of tolerance and
respect for another's point of view, but the implication then, however,
is that any point of view different from the one being taught or
expressed is immoral and tyrannical. If you disagree with the position
that all points of view are equally valid, then your point of view is
not valid. This argument self-destructs. This ethic turns out to be the
most bankrupt of all moral systems. It is called Moral Relativisim. It
can be made to sound persuasive, but it is misleading and fallacious.