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"dumbing down", Chick-fil-a" movement, lowest common denominator, Sandra Fluk - contraception debate
Does this women speak for you? She SURE doesn’t speak for me or my three adult children! I’m appalled by her attitude even more than her licentiousness, not to mention her assumption that ALL women are like her.
Most of us are aware of the deliberate “dumbing down” of America’s schools and are working to counter this “educational” movement toward total inclusion by virtue of the lowest common denominator method. The jist of it is that classroom requirements are lowered to the ability of the least capable students, so no one ‘feels’ left out. Heaven forbid kids today grow up like we did, with “smart” kids and “dumb” kids. We survived and the “dumb” kids received the help they needed to be rejoined with the “smart” kids. That was the 60′s, at least that was my experience.
Now, I’m seeing the same kind of “dumbing down” in reference to character. When I was a kid, it was desirable to be a man or woman of integrity. Nothing was more important or more valuable that one’s WORD. If difficulties arose in life (after the age of 25), they were faced and dealt with. If help was needed, we asked for help.
Some of us still strive to improve our character, but sadly, there seem to be an increasing umber of Americans who have given up on character improvement. Instead, some people seek revenge, others seek money or power, still others seem only to run after anything and everything they think might bring a moment’s satisfaction. I think of the “Sandra Fluk – contraception” issue of the spring or the “Chick-fil-a” conflict. These are just two of many examples easily available in the headlines that delineate a significant line of demarcation between those who want to lower the moral standard to include every conceivable human weakness, lust, or addiction – except traditional Judeo-Christian ethics.
We’ve seen how the “dumbing down” movement has worked in our schools (NOT!). And we’re seeing how it is working in our morality via the media & Hollywood as we’ve seen it for years. Now, however, the fruit is really starting to stink up the place. Kids killing kids, kids having babies, parents stylishly neglecting their parental responsibilities. It’s not about contraception. It’s not about the availability of porn. It’s a general across the board lowering of the standard even within “Christian” schools, churches, and families. It’s just too much trouble to live by those darn 10 Commandments or even the “Golden Rule!” Just too … costly to our time, our self-indulgence, our “ME-time!”
For those of us who are believers in a Biblical morality or a Biblical reality, one day we will have to give an accounting of our behavior, our attitudes, and our words. Character DOES Count! Are you raising or lowering the Character Common Denominator?
Barb, this is from my post today,
” The philosophical birthplace of the individuated soul with its higher callings — philosophy, art, faith — has devolved into an orgy of mindless pleasure pursued at the expense of any concern for, or belief in, the difference between scratching an itch and contemplating the divine.
And the civilization that, through its dual focus on human reason and the individual soul, planted the seed of that political liberty which is literally inconceivable in any other historical context has allowed itself to recede into an increasingly unvarnished mob of angry, frightened children clamoring for their “fair share,” for what they are “entitled to” — for a ruler to take care of them, freedom be damned.”
It’s not my words here but I applied them to our society and our downwaard progress pretty heavily. You’re talking about one of the basic causes here, in my opinion.
hahahaha GREAT MINDS, my friend! I’ll make a point of reading it tomorrow. I’m bushed – and it’s only Weds! ugh@ ahaha
Good plan my friend. Like some of mine, it’s a bit heavy. Good night.
Barb, I’m willing to repost this at the top of Grumpy, if you don’t mind. A year ago list Christmas a contributor lost his grandson to the medications described in the video, and they’ve been prescribed in much the same fashion.
The boy opened his Christmas presents and started running a fever, not all that unusual for an eight-year-old boy, a little children’s Tylenol broke the fever, the boy was tired and went to bed. About 1 AM morning after Christmas is grand father went to check on him. The Tylenol, the behavioral medication and a heart murmur the doctor wasn’t concerned about were more than the boy’s heart could handle.
By all means, Grumpy … I don’t care who reposts it, as long as they link back here!
I’m so sorry for your friend – and ALL the kids who are abused by those they should be able to trust!
Barb– email me, I have part one of something different coming out in the morning-it’s about education and it’s scary
okay! I just emailed you!