Undoubtedly the most controversial subject of my lifetime has been sexual freedom. The two hot topics of 1970-1974 were abortion and divorce. (For you kids, most states had a fault system of divorce in them olden days. You had to prove your case. Now we argue about "gay" marriage. Gotta be some irony in there somewhere.)
As much as a rounder as I have been in my life, I have no doubt that sexual profligacy is at the root of much unhappiness. It's not difficult to figure, really. If a man can get sex without committment, over time male-female relationships must degrade. Like it or hate it, The Facts of Life Are Conservative. I think there's a simple psychology here. You're either moving back toward poop-sniffing dogdom, or you're moving forward to the exaltation of Love. The oft-degraded French had a word for it: Amour. More than a literal translation, amour meant something lofty, inspired, something that required a warrior's courage and devotion. The union of man and woman is the road to Christ in these more advanced lines of Western thinking -- the "mystical Christianity" that makes literalists crazy. Men and women are called to their highest conduct in Parzival. There is no panty-waisted "I've been Saved" business, here. You train as a warrior, not brag about your alleged status. A real vital difference, friends. Worthing thinking about.
If you're man -- or woman -- enough.
Those of us who were once "liberal" perhaps have more to say on these topics than true-believer brat conservatives. The most degrading job interview I ever had took place here. Three privileged, skinny-assed kids had no idea what to do with a firecracker like me. I can understand how "liberals" despise conservatives. I despised them myself that day.
I didn't get the job.
True conservatives, in my book, are lusty folk. They don't argue with life, just like they don't argue with moral principle. Life is a lesson we must learn, not a script to be played out by light-loafers with scrawny backs. That's the difference.
My favorite personality at this time is "Robin of Berkeley." She has a new one out today: The Left's Corruption of Youth. This article has at least two strains: one, the deliberate historical attempts to corrupt America's moral vitality:
Beginning in the l930‘s, the Frankfurt School plotted the installation of Marxism in the West. They knew that a debauched citizenry was easier to manipulate.
The School found willing henchman in the amoral Left, which worships at the altar of pleasure: if it feels good, do it. Their hedonism has been legitimized by a host of mad scientists, such as Drs. Wilhelm Reich and Alfred Kinsey.
A principal architect of the sexual revolution, Kinsey purportedly falsified evidence to support his subversive theories: that everyone, babies included, is hyper-sexual and bisexual.
The other angle is more contemporary: we are living in a time in which moral judgments are viewed with alarm. Warm Fuzzy Liberals being what they are, they can't see that their kind will be the first to get slaughtered as society continues to degrade. There is no morality in these folks because there is no courage either. I, Cicero, tell you your day will come when you'll understand how brutally stupid the whole business about being "gay" is.
Well, it's a lesson we have to learn. I'm a comfortable stage in this world where I'm very happy for you: I've seen what's coming, and I don't have to pretend. But those of you who are pretending . . . .
Have some adjustments to make.
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