Modern Lies

The worst kind of lie is the one hiding behind the truth because it deceives further. It is more insidious and therefore more effective and potentially more harmful. We must keep in mind that a lie that is 99% true is still a lie.

The universal golden rule is to “do onto others what you would want done for yourself”. It is a good rule that promotes social harmony. So why do we keep trying to bend this rule to “have others do what you’d rather not do for yourself”.

More and more, I become convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

There exists no democracy today that can afford to submit to the will of the people without disrupting the affluence of banks and corporate conglomerates.

Another day I toiled. Another dream was foiled. Yet here still stands a man capable of dreaming dreams of glory. Through nightmare and through turmoil, light will shine anew. Tumble I still may, though never will I falter. Steady I will stay, growing ever stouter. Tomorrow, have you faith, beckons another day.

On perspective: insane, as they say, is the world around us. Sanity in an otherwise insane context will take the guise of insanity itself. Likewise, morality in an otherwise immoral context will seem insane.

Was the Pill the Solution?

Historically, I identify the root of contemporary relativistic movements with the 1960’s, when many social taboos were ruptured in the advent of organised groups and certain advancements in medical science.

I submit that the removal of practical consequences directly linked to acts deemed immoral up until the discovery of the contraceptive pill have enabled the pursuit of those acts with greater impunity. This same impunity became the catalyst to a popularisation of immorality.

The rebelliousness of youth – using a new and very appealing social trend to affirm their independence before the previous generation – by and by took to the new practices. Then – having pursued “immorality” – when their offspring followed in their footsteps, they had no moral standing with which to admonish the practice. Through repetition, what was deemed immoral became common practice; thereby becoming normal in the fullness of time.

Yet the change is still incomplete. There remain undeniable ethical and practical complications relevant to human nature in the “normalised immorality.” Our change of demeanour has not changed our inbred emotional and physiological reactions. Emotional attachment and the physiological consequences associated with romantic and sexual involvement are still present. No matter how hard we try to turn our bodies into playgrounds, we are still human and we must learn to recognise that fact. Knowing ourselves, we must not forget how we have learned to restrain our more self-destructive urges. Morality and religion were responses to our darker side. They were tools to enable society to exist. We set them aside at our own peril.

To those who argue the pill brought the promise of freedom and bliss, I say we have enjoyed over fifty years of what the hedonist and utilitarian currents have proposed. Sexual freedom, anthropocentrism and ethical malleability have flourished and prospered all this time. Where is the incommensurable joy that should have resulted from it? Where is the brotherhood of man that would embrace a selfless existence of its own accord? It isn’t here. Quite the contrary, we’ve become selfish and heartless in our petty pursuits and pharmaceutical companies were the ones that prospered alongside abortion clinics.