We
underestimated the value of culture as a power of change, irreversible change.
We were too busy building nations and democracy in countries living by seventh
century rules written in one book to notice that our culture was being changed
from within and without, partly by theocratic and totalitarian cultures, partly
by globalists, and their human tools and institutions, and partly by illegally-domiciled
cultures.
You
cannot change “hearts and minds” in a culture that values death more than life;
you cannot absorb a banana republic culture with “family values” of God and the
pursuit of happiness in which happiness is not self-generated but expected from
a benevolent government.
Changing
“hearts and minds” of nations requires time and arduous indoctrination. It is a
process similar to underground water burrowing through stone, shaping
magnificent rocks, tunnels, caves, stalactites and stalagmites.
“Cultura
animi” as Cicero described it in “Tusculan Disputations” is the cultivation of
the soul and mind. (“Animus” is Latin for soul or mind.) The American soul and
mind have been cultivated in the direction of socialism for a long time. We are
noticing the change now because it has finally come to fruition after more than
a century of constant scholastic, moral, social, and political programming.
Culture encompasses the material culture of a nation and the non-material culture such as language, customs, traditions, and its unique identity. A culture exhibits a group-specific acquired behavior which can be changed over time with the right tools. A culture is multifaceted; it includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by humans as members of society.
W.
C. McGrew defined culture as a six-step process:
- A new
pattern of behavior is invented, or an existing one is modified.
- The
innovator transmits this pattern to another person.
- The form
of the pattern is consistent.
- The one
who acquires the pattern retains the ability to perform it long after
having acquired it.
- The
pattern spreads across a population: families, clans, troops, or bands.
- The
pattern endures across generations.
Immigrants, who
have entered other cultures through time, have formed their own sub-cultures
within the primary culture:
-
Core culture (Leitkultur
or “lead culture” as the Germans termed it) - minorities had an identity of
their own, but they supported the core concepts of the culture on which society
was based
-
Melting pot – immigrant
cultures mixed willingly without state intervention; such was the case of the
United States until liberals intervened and changed it into “tossed salad bowl”
-
Monoculturalism – was adopted
initially by some European states as a government policy to assimilate
immigrants; it was deemed racist and nationalistic by ruling elites
-
Multiculturalism – immigrants
preserved their cultures while interacting “peacefully” within one nation; France,
Germany, and U.K. admitted recently that multiculturalism failed miserably in
their countries; other European nations are struggling to survive as they are
losing their identity, culture, and their countries to the “peaceful” immigrants
United
Kingdom’s sociologists developed cultural studies influenced by Marxism. These studies,
models, and lessons were incorporated and adopted by universities around the
world and preached in thousands of classes every year. The core message was the
same – socialism and Marxism are the wave of the future if society is to attain
utopia and happiness. The entrepreneurial work ethic of capitalism was
disdained and maligned.
We are in a globally-accelerated
culture change period driven by these educational models, international trade,
the socialist mass media, and the population explosion. Many inside and outside
forces encourage and promote change through thinly veiled environmentalist and
globalist propaganda indoctrination, economic, and political measures. Other
forces resist change coming from cultural ideas and practices favoring
socialism and Marxism, but they are outnumbered. New technologies and social
conflicts also produce change by promoting new and peculiar cultural models that
alter social dynamics in the utopian vein.
The feminist movement deeply affected
gender relations and economic structures in the American culture, often in
negative ways. Environmental conditions and groups caused cultural change
through global warming brainwashing. War and competition over resources such as
oil greatly impacted social dynamics and culture. Cultural ideas were transmitted through diffusion (fast food across the globe, innovations, direct borrowing) and acculturation (acquiring traits). Individual like me who learned the language, history, customs, and traditions became assimilated into the new culture. Likewise, over many generations of students, trained College of Education teachers indoctrinated their pupils into the socialist mindset without much interference from the clueless parents who were often themselves products of the public school cultural modification curricula.
People who were born, raised, and grew old under oppressive communism, did not culturally understand any other way of living. They felt alienated when capitalism replaced communism. They did not know how to make a living, how to survive on their own and provide for themselves, they were still waiting for the communist regime to hand them their meager rations – it was not much, but it did not require having to think, having to provide for themselves a daily subsistence, or having to work. These elders wanted communist enslavement back because it was a certainty they recognized.
People
who fled communism were not shocked that the Russians celebrated by the
thousands Stalin’s birthday recently, in worship to his dubious and murderous
achievements, having starved and killed 20 million innocents during his reign
of terror in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). We know that a
dependent and hopeless culture breeds helplessness.
The
French are so unwilling to give up their culture of “welfareship” as Sylvain
Charat calls it, that they have fallen hard into the “poverty trap.” France is going
to allow doctors to “accelerate the coming of death” of French patients in the
socialized medical care system, in order to fund their cradle to grave lavish
welfare. What caused such a harsh change in the values of their culture?
Why
are Americans allowing the dreaded 15-member “death panel” of Obamacare instead
of trimming the government’s lavish spending and offering healthcare insurance
to the uninsured in some other form? If some Americans want universal
healthcare and gun control, why don’t they move to Cuba?
Why
would a culture run household budgets in such a way that citizens are willing
to sacrifice the wellbeing of their children in the future and the grandparents
through euthanasia driven by medical care rationing in order that the parents
live better in the present?
It
should come as no surprise that the majority of Americans prefer a lazy lifestyle,
dependent on government welfare for their every need as the only viable
solution to daily living; they want a secular society devoid of faith, a
society that does not think twice about killing the unborn as a form of
contraception but builds crossing bridges for turtles, a society that does not
seek justice for the murder of innocents but demonstrates to release infamous terrorists
and criminals.
Americans
who no longer share the values of the culture that was established long time
ago, adhere to the culture of socialism/Marxism. The low-information Americans,
who chanted for the promised hope and change, aspire for a culture of government
dependency and entitlements in perpetuity.
Entrepreneurship
is slowly replaced in the American psyche by “assistance-ship” through a
barrage of constant cultural indoctrination by the academia, the media, and the
government.
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