Post by Occam's Spork on Oct 19, 2019 1:59:47 GMT 10
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are synonymous with Western Civilization. The core values of Western Civilization includes objectivity. What that really means for most, is a forced perspective from the cultural elite ( do you hear the Marxist echoes?). Therefore WASPs are evil and their perspectives (traditional marriage, etc.) are always wrong. --That's the current common mindset in the West. I happen to think THEY are wrong, but to disagree seems to be treason of the highest order!
Ideas have consequences--Consequences result in Philosophies--Philosophy shapes culture--Culture, in turn, comes from ideas--which have consequences, which result in philosophies, which shape culture...on and on.
(Round and round we go!)
Lately, we are noticing a dramatic shift in all of our culture's philosophies.
For instance:
-How did the purpose of marriage change from being an institution protecting the family unit, to an issue of bestowing dignity on someone’s feelings?
-Why are politics and public discussion about shouting matches and not trying to understand and engage with different ideas and opinions?
-When did gender identification become a matter of one's choice?
-From what epidemic of thought comes the urge to commit mass shootings?
Objectivity has become a bad word; yet objectivity has always been a friend to humanity.
Through objectivity, we have inherited the study of logic, the scientific method, critical thinking, and metacognition.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans highly valued and doggedly pursued it.
It seems to me now that these tools have been turned upon themselves, and have created a logical short-circuit.
There has been a rise in identity politics, an increasingly polarized jockeying for cultural power, and the automatic assumption that White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are oppressive. ...And so if you are White, Protestant, and Hetero-male, and stand for traditional Christian values, you can almost always count on being labelled as a 'sexist, racist, oppressive, closed-minded homophobe'.
My take-away point is this: Unity in diversity can only come through objectivity, not identity politics.
Ideas have consequences--Consequences result in Philosophies--Philosophy shapes culture--Culture, in turn, comes from ideas--which have consequences, which result in philosophies, which shape culture...on and on.
(Round and round we go!)
Lately, we are noticing a dramatic shift in all of our culture's philosophies.
For instance:
-How did the purpose of marriage change from being an institution protecting the family unit, to an issue of bestowing dignity on someone’s feelings?
-Why are politics and public discussion about shouting matches and not trying to understand and engage with different ideas and opinions?
-When did gender identification become a matter of one's choice?
-From what epidemic of thought comes the urge to commit mass shootings?
Objectivity has become a bad word; yet objectivity has always been a friend to humanity.
Through objectivity, we have inherited the study of logic, the scientific method, critical thinking, and metacognition.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans highly valued and doggedly pursued it.
It seems to me now that these tools have been turned upon themselves, and have created a logical short-circuit.
There has been a rise in identity politics, an increasingly polarized jockeying for cultural power, and the automatic assumption that White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are oppressive. ...And so if you are White, Protestant, and Hetero-male, and stand for traditional Christian values, you can almost always count on being labelled as a 'sexist, racist, oppressive, closed-minded homophobe'.
My take-away point is this: Unity in diversity can only come through objectivity, not identity politics.
