Hall Of Shame -- Gay Marriage

The fact that "gay marriage" has consumed one instant of national consideration suffices to condemn this entire generation to the Hall Of Shame. Any civilization that loses the ability to channel the sexual impulses of its people into constructive activities is destined to die, and America has lost that ability in so many ways -- from no-fault divorce, serial polygamy, prolific bastardy, and abortion as contraception -- that I cannot possibly document them all here. A civilization that rewards sexual license, however, is not just moribund -- it's suicidal.

Social conservatives have proved typically clueless by rushing to amend the Constitution to deal with this, showing again their penchant for federalizing everything we do. Each State can confront gay marriage however it likes, and this poses no obstacle to the path that other States might choose: one State is not required to extend Full Faith and Credit to another State's blessing of a gay union, so there's no need whatsoever to straitjacket us once again in the name of saving us. Besides, if anything is going to save us, it will not be a piece of legislation.

Social liberals have rediscovered the virtues of States' rights, at least on this issue, and they have also indulged in their time-tested habit of conflating rights with benefits. Contrary to the popular narrative, no State is persecuting gays or forbidding them from marrying each other; instead, States are simply withholding their approval from these unions. Try as they might, social liberals cannot persuasively argue that there is a "right" to receive approval, which burns them up because they are incapable of earning approval on their own. Those who demand respect do not command it.

The real battle here is spiritual. "If it feels good, do it" is the psalm of the debased, and it will consume us unless we reject it.

The Passing Scene

The few people who read my blog sometimes ask why I don't post more often to keep pace with the passing scene. Part of the answer is that I'm a husband and a practicing attorney, so I lack the free time to tap away on the internet every day commenting on the latest governmental transgressions (which are too many to count, let alone decry). It fascinates me that some people are capable of devoting hours every day to online fulminations. Do these people venture outdoors, or are they just hooked on amphetamines?

But the major reason for my reticence has to do with my very outlook: the ship of state has sprung a leak, so there is precious little value in quibbling over the arrangement of the deck chairs. Our problems are both fundamental and simple; they do not change from one day to the next. In case you haven't waded through my jeremiads yet, our problem is that a group of swindlers, status-seekers, narcissists, and half-men calling itself "the government" has long since shed any entitlement to that designation and is ritualistically raping us. This is a criminal enterprise, and my pathetic ability to elect its members does nothing to make me (or you) free. I am not going to waste my valuable time documenting everything this gang of criminals and its ingenuous followers are doing, whether here or abroad. They do not represent me, and they do not represent the legacy that my ancestors bequeathed me. It is enough to know that they are stealing my income and using it to bribe and murder their will onto the world, which should spark plenty of outrage without having to consider daily examples.

I write this blog and my books to help people understand the mortal wound we are suffering, not to describe every evanescent symptom that might manifest itself. Sure enough, the moment you acknowledge the singularity of our troubles is the moment you stop fretting about them. What you do with that knowledge is up to you, not me or anyone else, so resuscitate your conscience and stop looking for all the answers "out there" -- the answer is within you.

Hall Of Shame -- White Guilt

One of the most effective ways that the Tumor has pried into our lives over the past two generations is by capitalizing on "white guilt," the notion that whites living today should express unrelenting contrition for the supposed sins of their ancestors. Even pretending for a moment that such contrition were warranted (which it's not), the goal of all this hand-wringing has little to do with honest repentance and much more to do with power. Bludgeoning a sense of original racial sin into the minds of whites ensures a perverse moral paradigm whereby any dissent from the modern political and legal artifice is excoriated as a spiritual failure: for example, only a hateful bigot would dare question the constitutional basis for the Tumor's oversight of private hiring policies, right? And make no mistake -- the most cynical purveyors of this brand of thoughtcrime are themselves white, and they monopolize the positions of power in both government and academia. While they harbor no true affinity for blacks, they do enjoy using blacks as pawns in their game of control over the vast majority of their countrymen. There is no half-measure to erase this noxious, cynical paradigm; only outright repudiation will suffice.

First, I feel no unique sense of shame that my ancestors practiced slavery. Blacks themselves practiced slavery and sold each other to whites, so I am not about to condemn the buyer rather than the seller. If anything, I feel proud of my ancestors because it was they who conceived of slavery as wrong in the first place. To the extent any vestiges of chattel slavery persist, whites most certainly are not the ones at fault.

Second, I feel no unique scorn for the South. Both regions of the country did their fair share to prolong slavery and the slave trade. Northerners hated blacks and wanted to keep them boxed into the South, where they would not undercut the price of Northern labor. And while it is true that the South seceded in large part because it wanted to preserve slavery, the North did not invade the South because it wanted to end slavery. President Lincoln admitted in his first inaugural that the Tumor had no power to end slavery where it existed, and he voiced support for a constitutional amendment to preserve slavery indefinitely. Once again, the true motivating factor here had nothing to do with justice or compassion, but far more to do with power -- Lincoln threw down the gauntlet and charged that war would erupt only if tariff collections were frustrated, NOT if slavery persisted. Moreover, it is impossible to deny that the South had far greater legal right and historical precedent for seceding than the Tumor had for invading.

Third, I deny that blacks lived in nothing but misery and deprivation from 1865 to 1965. To the contrary, a black family living in the 1950s was far more likely than a black family today to be well-educated; to have legitimate children; to have both parents living together; to have steady employment; and to avoid being imprisoned or murdered. Do I deny that blacks were often victims of racial violence? Of course not. What I do deny is that blacks today are better off than they were before the "civil rights movement," which did far more to inflate the Tumor's power over us than it did to secure anyone's rights. If you read the fine print of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, you will find that it relies not on the Bill of Rights or the Fourteenth Amendment, but rather on the ubiquitous Interstate Commerce Clause -- the purpose being to curtail our rights so as to fit the Tumor's conception of a properly-run society. The main achievement of the Civil Rights Act and its progeny was to guarantee that whites and blacks cannot interact as free and voluntary adults, but rather as wards of the state who constantly vie for political advantage. Private, civil society has thus succumbed to vulgar, political society.

Any guilt or shame I feel as a white man is not directed at my ancestors, who built a prosperous civilization that, for all its imperfections, was governed by the rule of law. No, my shame is directed at my contemporaries, who in a single lifespan have dismantled the rule of law; have destroyed the foundations of our prosperity; and have surrendered to the priests of political correctness.