Culture drives Beliefs drives Actions

I have been noodling around in the back of my mind since the November 3 election exactly what do we do.  By we, I mean conservatives who are watching our country disappear before our eyes. I have listen to Glenn Beck, and of course to Rush Limbaugh.  Of course, I have also listened to Tucker Carlson, as well as read many articles on a number of websites.  Out of all of it, I have determined that what we are witnessing is the result of a destruction of the culture.  I call this the anticulture.  The anticulture is the opposite of our traditional culture.  The anticulture is in fact a cancer on the culture of the United States.  

Like a cancer, the anticulture has been with us since our founding.  The name for it, the Left, came about from the French Revolution.  Also like a founding, it has grown in the United States for perhaps 120 years until now it occupies the heights of the cultural spaces, including the arts, academia, the media and social media, and of course, government.

Mrs. PolyKahr and I were watching a program on the Unabomber the other day.  At one point one of the narrators made in interesting observation.  Was Ted Kazynski crazy?  The answer is of course that no, he wasn't.  What accounted for what seemed like crazy behavior can be explained by the things Kazynski believed.  In Kazyski's case, he believed that technology, the tool or instrumentality, is evil, and therefore he went around sending elaborate letter bombs to people who were advancing technology.  But, of course, the seeming "crazy" part is that technology itself is neutral, neither good nor evil.  What makes it so is the intent of the user of that technology.

In Europe, Muslims have immigrated.  Women in Muslim countrieds walk around in black sacks covering their bodies from head to toe.  the can not travel about unless escorted by a male relative.  Indeed, women are treated as chattel, objects to be used.  When they see European women in much skimpier clothing, and walking about without escorts, they assume these women are of loose morals, and of course their Koran tells them it is their right to rape these women.  These behaviors are based on their beliefs.

And beliefs are driven by culture.

I think we need to have a cultural revival.  The traditional culture of the United States was first and foremost based on Christianity.  The Declaration of Independence expressed a belief in Providence, another word for God, and further a belief that our rights are granted not by government, but by God:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

Up until very recently, no one disputed these ideas. Nor did anyone dispute John Adams who said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."  But now the Left has spawned a culture that is diametrically opposed to traditional culture. 

As I said, beliefs are driven by culture.  Further, actions are driven by beliefs.  So, in order to change the actions of people, we need at root to change the culture.  I intend then to have a series of posts on cultural issues, but we need to work hard to change the culture.  One group that is doing this is Turning Point USA . It deserves your support, but there are a thousand things other we can be doing. Each of them will probably not change the world, but if we can amass enough of these things, we can collectively change the culture.

The first thing I intend to take on is the origin and spread of the Left.  But I also plan to have pieces on abortion, on education, on critical race theory, guns, art and the arts, and other issues of cultural interest.  I intend these posts as much for my own clarification as for education for young people.  In other words, these posts will be a sort of "thinking out loud."  One other thing, though, is that since they will not be typically off the cuff, my output will necessarily be less than of late.

Stay tuned.