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Freedom on the Heights

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

First, I must preface this by explaining a fundamental ideology that pretends at freedom but has nothing to do with it, “modern” liberalism. One of the most noble political ideologies of history is liberalism. Thanks to the modern “liberals,” it must now be referred to as “classic liberalism.” It was, and is, focused on private property, limited government, the free market, and peace. Ludwig von Mises wrote a brilliant description in “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition.” 

The only thing modern liberalism has to do with the classical version is its focus on government. Not limited government, but relatively complete governmental control. Our Founders referred to this as “statism,” the very thing The Declaration of Independence decries. And control over which our Constitution was produced to protect.

Which brings us to the topic at hand. Few will disagree with my claim that freedom, be it religious or secular, is humanity’s top priority. Debate, nevertheless, is rife and arises when we attempt to define freedom. Despite the debate, the most important factor is that freedom is a two-sided coin: Independence the head, and responsibility the tail. You cannot have one without the other. The challenge modern liberalism introduces is the attempt to eliminate the responsibility side of the coin, which equals the elimination of freedom. Thus, they sell the concept that it is things rather than people responsible for everything. Get rid of guns and we’ll be rid of murder. Get rid of drug laws, and we’ll be rid of drug problems. I know, I know, ridiculous.

Here’s where the religious/secular aspect comes to light. Modern liberalism has worked on selling the absurdity that morality issues should face no judgment. That God’s law is repressive and judgemental, which, of course, it is not. Judeo-Christian ideology holds and demonstrates that God’s law is designed to implement happiness in this life and reward in the next. Whether there will be a next is irrelevant. As to the life we are living, despite the rhetoric being spewed by leftists, ignoring those laws, rather than leading one to freedom, leads to a broad range of negative consequences. Despite the invention of contraceptives and antibiotics, promiscuity still leads to problems. For example, in a year, 2 out of every 100 women using “the pill” precisely as instructed will still become pregnant. So over a lifetime, 38% of women will experience an unplanned pregnancy. No problem, kill the unborn child! Over a million unborn children are killed every year! pRESIDENT Biden promoted American taxpayers funding abortions worldwide! Beyond this is the sad reality that sexually transmitted diseases have become both more common and more deadly (AIDS).

Another majestic and ironic lie has been the war on poverty. Liberals linked a wonderful idea to one of their original motivations, racism. After the advancement of the civil. rights movement, which they fought against tooth and nail, racist LBJ came up with the Great Society program which was largely responsible for the breakdown of Black families in America. It is said that LBJ stated, “I’ll have those n—ers voting Democratic for 200 years.” The result has been a literal breakdown of the American Black family. The irony here is the demonstrable fact that poverty is much less a threat to people who grow up in a two-parent family. The Great Society program was specifically designed to break down Black marriages. “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life” ~Thomas Sowell. Thus, the liberal war on poverty was a highly successful war on family, specifically Black families. Although it is slavery of a different sort, it is the liberal attempt to restore Black America to the service of the Demonicrat party.

For humanity, throughout history, freedom has been a rare, and usually short-lived commodity. Throughout history, the natural state of humanity has been one of tyranny and misery. We see the ebb and flow of freedom going on all around us, i.e. Chile and Venezuela. The entirety of Europe is suffering from a similar decline fueled by factors ranging from insane government spending to the pretense of acceptance, in this case, of Islam. Islam teachings do go on about freedom, but the freedom they speak of is the freedom of being a member of the cult. No other freedom is recognized. Of course, this is denied but all one has to do is open one’s eyes to see the truth. Islamic Terrorists have carried out more than 44,459 deadly terror attacks since 9/11. “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the  Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.” Quran 9:29. “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not” Quran (2:216). “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority” Quran (3:151). “There is no such things as “Islamic terrorism,” because terrorism differs from Islam. There’s just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term “Islamic terrorism” has become widespread ~Bashar al-Assad. In America, as we watch the demonstrations on our college campuses, demonstrations in support of Hamas (terrorism), How far behind are we?

It all comes back to the original premise, freedom is a two-sided coin. Although they’re trying, liberalism in the demonicrat party can’t eliminate the responsibility side and maintain the independence side. John Locke, the father of liberalism, proposed the primary role of government being to protect life, liberty, and property, this last being modified by Thomas Jefferson to “pursuit of happiness,” incorporating concepts well beyond property ownership, such as the right to marry or the choice of a country club. Leaving us with a defined concept of freedom, which can only exist hand in hand with full recognition of the responsibility of the individuals. Thus, in a truly liberal society, the government’s responsibility is to restrict the potential of the violation of the rights and liberty of the citizens, this depending upon the citizens upholding the responsibility not only of respecting the rights of others but of defending themselves from the activity of criminals, including government, to oppress those rights.

Which leads us to the core problem with modern liberalism, the battle against responsibility. Liberals wishing to place the burden of responsibility entirely in the hands of governmental authority. All of which may have some value were it not for the exclusive history of governments destroying almost everything they touch. For example the demonicrats began the Department of Education in 1980, at which time our education system was rated at #1, we are now down to somewhere between 24 and 40, depending upon which report you read. The FBI devolved from a premier law enforcement community to a demonicrat political tool. Our military is being infected with DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) unconstitutional absurdity. This absurdity infects services both governmental and private, across the country, including the notable increase in plane crashes, which the rigged search engines are hiding quite ineffectively. Thousands of agents were added to the IRS staff. Why? Whatever!

Now we have what Americans have long been wishing for: DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which has already saved American taxpayers over 60 Billion dollars, and that’s just the beginning. Guess who is not pleased? Exactly, the demonicrat party. The rigged search engines are spewing lies while the population is looking at lowered taxes and perhaps even rebate payments! 

The bottom line is the literal blessing we are experiencing as a result of the election of Donald Trump. It’s going to be a windy, wavey ocean for a while. Logic and reason are completely gone from the liberal rhetoric. Yet freedom is being restored!  The dishonesty of political representatives, on both sides, is being exposed,  and consequences are being meted out for the injustices we’ve been experiencing. As a topping for this desert, we are seeing the promise of great things to come. A flat tax? No property tax? Control of education returned to the states? 

“There in her place she did rejoice, / Self-gather’d in her prophet-mind, / But fragments of her mighty voice / Came rolling on the wind.” ~Alfred Lord Tennison, from “Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights.

~Bacon

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The Mark(x) of Modernity

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

I’ve always been fairly resistant to the concept of religion, but now, in the elderly condition I’ve achieved, I’ve come to the notion that even if there is no actual truth to it, religion lies at the base of everything humanity does. The principles of Judeo-Christianity are simple and effectively promote a humanitarian existence to all involved. There seems, logically, to be little reason to fight against the principles. Yet fight against them, many do. 

One of the most effective ideologies conflicting with this positive interest of any traditional religion, is Marxism. One of the principle concepts used to sell Marxism is a critique of the most prominent and successful economic ideology in history, capitalism. Marxism paints “the worker,” (the prime beneficiary of capitalism), into a position of victimhood. Victims of the capitalists who exploit them in order to profit in some way from their labor. The Marxist goal being to convert society from a capitalist ideology to communism. This removal of society from capitalism, necessitates a change of private ownership of business enterprises over to a “public” ownership. Which, of course, doesn’t and hasn’t and never will, happen. Rather we see conversion from private, to government ownership. It is all, actually, far more complex, but this is the basis. One of the principalities of this change is the reduction of individualism and reduction of the importance of unique human souls. Thus the concepts of Biblical Judeo-Christianity are diametrically opposed to Marxist principle.

Thus, problematic to the concept of Marxism are such Biblical principles as the nuclear family. The traditional family value system promotes values and principle directly oppositional to Marxist principle such as parental rights and authority over the children of a family and the passage of belongings and wealth from one generation of family to the the next. The education of children becomes in Marxism, a state principle. Home education is out of the question, which we see has become rather the rule in America. 

Government becomes the ultimate authority, no room being left for such ideological nonsense as Bibles, churches, evangelism and so forth. Certainly no Jesus Christ, Popes, Saints and such. The ultimate authority left standing in the shoes of a God, is government. Example of this are to be found in every Communist society, and the movement toward such is present in all socialist societies as well.

Falling by the wayside is private property ownership. The Biblical premise of the individual right to own private property and the command for believers to create wealth to promote God’s covenant  Oh me! Progressive taxation opposing the biblical principle that all people, irrespective of their income, should pay the same percentage which is a “flat tax.” Oh my! Freedom of speech enjoya zero consideration, the state being in complete control of all interpersonal exchanges. hmmm… Sounds familiar, no?

On the face of it, particularly to Judeo-Christians, it all seems too completely bizarre for consideration, Satanic in fact. However dark, mysterious and evil it seems to be, the societal evolution toward Marxism has been going on for a century. To a great extent Marx’s principles, presented in “The Communist Manifesto,” have become official policy in the USA. What I refer to as “the demonicrat party,” has been openly promoting those principles for decades. Our “education” system has gone far beyond hinting, to absolute promotion of of Marxist principles including a series of lies such as climate change (which is natural rather than man made); bald faced Marxist principles like critical race theory. Absolute falsehoods which contribute to the dumbing down of American students as well as the indoctrination it was designed to foster and is accomplishing quite nicely.

It was during this “educational” extravaganza that I became aware of a Marxist sidestream, “cultural Marxism.” This is a vast simplification of a complex evolution, but pure economic Marxism was failing for simple and obvious reasons and so, had to be replaced with more complex and variable alternatives. Much more complex ideologies like personal identity. including aspects like race, sexuality, religion, nationality. The idea of working and ruling class being made severely more complicated and, essentially, left behind. 

It had been decades since my previous studies so I was astonished by the differences I saw. The focus of the professors had evolved from an appreciation of performance, to notice of liberally approved behaviors. The class “stars,” tended to be liberal lesbians. The more liberal the better. My being a hard-core conservative would’ve spelled doom, but I had the advantage of being an old, long-haired hippie in a wheelchair with a Service Dog, and I was careful, for the most part, to keep rational political, and behavioral principles to myself. So I made it through, earning a BS in Creative Writing, MA in humanities (Folklore) and finally a PhD also in humanities (Mythology and Occultism). That being an aside, another notable Marxist principle of my educational experience was the Marxism. I had more than one professor who openly promoted the fact that they were, what they called, “neo-Marxists,” Neo-Marxism comes under the broader framework of the New Left. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds a broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy. Beyond the mystery of it, I didn’t care, I wanted to become Dr. Bacon, and earning that at the hands of pserudoreligionists was and still is, fine with me, although it saddens me that our “education” system has come down to this.

The bottom line important portion of this is that the anti-religion aspect of Marxism was in full effect. While the lost essence of folklore is that it is neither true nor false. It is the lore of whatever folk group is in question. In terms of folk groups, USU has gone from the hard-core Mormon college environment of my youth, to a full blown Marxist institution of today. The irony of it is that while in Marxism there can be no God, the religious aspect of the question is every bit as potent as any deistic concept imaginable, and the God in this case, is liberalism as it breathes and breeds in the church of the demonic rats. Whatever truth there is or isn’t, we’re all praying to our own Gods, and the God of governmental power is a mighty one indeed! Thus, in spite of my intended abstinence, I find myself dancing in full to the music of divine principle, but doing so without the blindfold of modernity.

~Bacon

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