I'm listening to Hillbilly Elegy right now. It's a fascinating book describing the white poor of Appalachia. Coincidentally, I ran across this essay on the travails of the white underclass which was excellent. Here's a tidbit.
In McCreary County, Kentucky, the last fifteen years have brought a “75 percent increase in the mortality rate for white women between the ages of 35 and 59, one of the highest in the nation,” according to the paper. The story of death in this rural county, which is 91 percent white, is fraught with drugs, suicide, violence, and broken families.It is the long-held position of The Scratching Post crack editorial staff that the rejection of objective morality, particularly the rejection of traditional marriage as a foundational institution, is the primary root cause of our social pathologies. While the pathologies seemed localized in the black community, where illegitimacy is about 75%, the conversation was easily derailed by shouts of "Racism!" Now that the same scourges are coming to white communities in quantities sufficient to warrant mainstream media attention, maybe we'll be able to discuss it.
"Now that the same scourges are coming to white communities in quantities sufficient to warrant mainstream media attention, maybe we'll be able to discuss it."
ReplyDeleteNot on your life!
Because ... "the rejection of objective morality, particularly the rejection of traditional marriage as a foundational institution, is the primary root cause of our social pathologies" ... and we can't let that truth be acknowledged.
Cynicism aside, at what point do enough people recognize the problem to make a difference. You'll never convince the hard core moral relativists, you just need normal people to realize that you have to expect certain behaviors from people - thrift, hard work, temperance, etc.
ReplyDeleteBut, to accurately recognize and acknowledge the problem would be to simultaneously indict the "sexual revolution"; and far too many people -- even normal people who don't explicitly espouse moral relativism -- are far too invested in the "sexual revolution" to allow themselves to admit that it was morally wrong and socially destructive.
ReplyDeleteHell! If God was right about that, what else might he be right about? This is very dangerous territory.