People
in Western societies are voluntarily giving up their distinctive and
once-cherished freedom- and independence- that countless millions have died to
attain, preserve, and defend for hundreds of years. We are blindly forfeiting
our cultural inheritance, eschewing our good fortune, abandoning our
Judeo-Christian values, surrendering our autonomy, and relinquishing our very
humanity.
Surely
this is an exaggeration, you say. This must be a bit of hyperbole brought on by
a bout of hysteria. Sadly, it is not.
As we
talk about robots taking our jobs, we speculate on the “singularity,” that
moment when artificial intelligence surpasses our own. To say that there is no
consensus amongst experts as to what will happen from that time forward is an
understatement. Some believe it will be a good thing, some a disaster. More
than a few believe we may end up as useless, outmoded slaves of these AI
robots.
Yet,
apparently, many of us will soon want to marry them. The incredibly quick
advancement in stunningly real looking, feeling and sounding “sex-bots,” that
may be programmable, and can talk, flirt and perform a panoply of other bodily
functions, combined with equally rapidly changing social mores, has many
experts convinced that robot-human marriage will be commonplace by 2050. As if
our birth rate in the West wasn’t low enough already, with gay-marriage
legalized, contraceptives paid for by others (birth control oddly enough considered
a birth-right), the ubiquitousness of masturbation and pornography, and the emerging
refusal to recognize any difference between the sexes.
For
many in western nations, driving has been considered a necessity, a privilege,
a sport and a way to leave your troubles behind while taking control of an
exquisite machine. In the United States, it has been nothing less than the
physical manifestation of our freedoms. Hitting the open road, man putting
machine through its paces, and traversing the vast expanses and varying
terrains of the fruited plain have been rights-of-passage from generation to
generation. The staggering number of “roadside attractions’ and
“drive-through/drive-in” restaurants are a testament to this reality. But now
we are about to cede control of our travel to driverless and “autonomous”
vehicles. “How wonderful!” roar the experts, “now we can get rid of many
parking ramps, lots, garages, and the like, and make more room for pedestrians,
bikers and nature lovers. And no one will actually need to own a car. There will be fleets on demand and it will be a much
more efficient way to move people around!”
Urban
planners envision a day when everyone is housed, like urban sheep, in high-density developments in
the city proper, and the “sprawling” suburbs of individual homes, three-car
garages, and fenced in yards are no more. You won’t need to own a car, you’ll
just call for one when you need it. Get it? More control for the planners, less
control for us. Autonomous cars,
dependent people. (There is no way I
am giving up my ability to drive my own vehicle to wherever the hell I
damn well please, whenever the hell I damn well please, without one hell of a
fight. Just sayin’).
For now
our cars are going to be spying on us every second we are driving them,
watching to see if we accelerate or brake too quickly, go over the speed limit,
are on the phone, have beer on our breath, are listening to talk radio or are
wearing clothes that clash. But every device
spies on us now, from our computers and televisions, to our smartphones and
vehicles. Even some of our mattresses have
started recording our bedroom activities. (See my post, “Spanish Mattress To
Act As Private Eye; 4/28/2016). We enjoy less freedom, privacy and dignity
every day.
Our
leaders want to make us accountable to a one-world government. It is
inevitable, they say. But a one-world government means a one-world bureaucracy.
It necessarily means less freedom, choice and even “diversity” for its
citizens. There is an existential reason for republicanism. It affords the
governed the most freedom. It is “pro-choice” government by, of and for, the
people. If one state/nation enacts a 90% tax rate or legalizes the killing of
Jews, for example, I can move to another state/nation. One-world government?! What could go wrong?
Moreover,
Christianity is dying off in Europe and America, with its Judeo-Christian
values that are the foundation of a free, vibrant, prosperous society based on
natural rights and the rule of law. The massive influx of Muslims into these
nations is combining with their low native birthrates and declining observance
of Christianity to raise the possibility that Sharia Law may someday replace
their constitutions as the laws of their lands, eviscerating freedoms and
returning them to the dark ages.
As if
all of this weren’t enough, there are fewer and fewer workers laboring to pay
for the ever increasing number of folks who can’t- or choose not to- work. Euphemistically
branded “entitlement” spending is causing both those who are forced to give up
their income- and those who receive income from those others- to surrender
their freedom. When government arbitrarily seizes whatever percentage of the
fruits of some of its citizen’s labor that it wants to, and tosses it at other
citizens feet, it removes the incentive for both
groups to be gainfully employed, and essentially relegates the latter group-
and its descendants- to the level of livestock. Make no mistake, this is
utterly unsustainable. Period.
All of
these things are eminently, easily fixable. But we won’t fix them. Because we
have become too soft, too deluded, too compliant, too corrupt, and too cowed by
political correctness to save ourselves. And too tolerant of those staggeringly
intolerant leftists proclaiming that those who don’t believe tolerance is the
highest virtue cannot be tolerated.
We in
the West are embarked on the largest mass-suicide and voluntary, eventual
self-extinction in world history.
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Please share this with your friends and families, and anyone else
who is receptive to saving Western culture…and humanity.
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