SICKNESS IN AMERICA!
Sickness is alive and well in America. Our society is very sick
and few of us fully realize the origin, extent, severity, or
cause of this ailment.
The catalyst of this infirmity has been a moral decline mixed
into our society enabled and facilitated by a High-Tech, Tele-
Communications diseminated to population that nutures social and
moral relativism (a belief that man can create his own moral and
ethics system). Proof of our moral decline is everywhere. Drug,
alcohol and substance abuse abound, a high crime rate and satanic
cults gain new adherents nightly. These devilish dynamics are
fueling emotional problems that have become so prevalent that
almost every family has been affected by some form of emotional
stress or disturbance. Like wildfire these emotional disturbances
have swept across america, spread by High-Tech means thus accel-
erating our moral decline.
Two recent examples of social chaos and disturbance were the
Summer-Fall 1991 confirmation hearing of Judge Clarence Thomas to
the U.S. Supreme Court and the tragic massacre of 22 customers at
the Luby's Cafeteria located in Killeen, Texas by George Hennard
on October 16, 1991.
The first example, the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas
was opposed by feminist groups. Some of the members of these
groups are driven by resentment and hatred, feeling that men are
the cause of america's problems. These feelings manifest in
emotions so intense that they will do anything to destroy anyone
they believe to be against women. Thus allegations made by Anita
Hill about sexual harassment by Judge Thomas rightfully so or not
were welcomed and vigorously prosecuted by womens groups. This
was an example of destructive emotions being directed against
perceived enemies to gain certain goals and secure more power for
women. Usually the leadership of these feminist groups benefit
far more than the rank and file membership as a result these
political struggles.
The second example was the tragic massacre in Killeen, Texas.
The killer George Hennard was a 35 year old man whose parents had
divorced approximately 8-9 years earlier. Letters that he had
written to neighborhood women acquaintances several months before
the massacre, revealed the fact that Hennard harbored ill feeling
toward the opposite sex. He seem to be a man mad at the world
externalizing his troubles and blaming everyone but himself. His
madness resulted in his crashing through a plate glass window of
Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas with his pickup truck, dis-
mounting and shooting to death 22 persons and injuring scores of
others.
These two examples are of the manifestation of social and moral
relativism for when morals and ethics can be blown around by
man's mind because of whimsical change than up is down and east
is west and nothing makes sense. So too do we wander aimlessly
directionless blaming others for our problems instead of looking
to ourselves for the cause and the solution to our problems.
The first example was one of women blaming, resenting and
hating men. While the second example was one of a man seeming to
hate and resent women. Both examples illustrate the polarization
of the sexes that in my opinion has worsened over the last 35
years. During this period America has experienced a moral de-
cline.
This clearly marked decline during the last 35 years was
highlighted by the disintegration of the natural family unit.
Emerging from this family disintegration have come unhappy chil-
dren ill-reponsive to learning and open to influence from situa-
tion comedies, like, akin to and re-enforced by the situational
ethics our children learn in public schools. In addition out of
these broken marriages has come bitterness, resentfullness, and
sometimes hate filled divorcees. This bunch of traumatized and
unhappy individuals are causing and spreading havoc, darkness and
sadness wherever they go. So with this continueing spread of this
immoral cancer how are we as a nation to revive our society?
The revival of our country must come through a renewing of good
moral spirit within our families. All societies are replenished
through the formation of new families, but today because of an
exceedingly large pool of sick and traumatized individuals this
sea of sickness is generating a dynamism of bad families being
formed. So what are the dynamics of this vicious cycle and what
kind of families are being created? When morally broken and sick
individuals form families the result are sick immoral families.
When strong and well individuals form families then springs hope
that our society, our world may become a better place by partici-
pation in the creation of goodness through the formation and
nuturing of good moral families. In America today a greater
number of immoral families are being formed by negative dynamics
and driven by High-Tech materialism then in the past creating a
culture in chaos.
On the other hand cultures not experiencing chaos are cultures
that have common, belief systems, goals, mores when confluencing
together direct the society. These cultural commonalities propel
and guide a society in a good, orderly and right way.
In America we have no real culture but instead have only an
economic system that has assumed a piranha like feeding frenzy
while our controllers pour dribble into our minds which does
nothing but promote more and more negative dynamics, manifesting
in a greater number of americans becoming purely materialistical-
ly driven animals, and becoming captives of their environment
more so than they could have ever imagined. Truely High-Tech
Tele-Communications has made us passive creatures having insta-
tiable appetites with little easing of our hungry pains in sight.
What remedies and solutions exist that can alleviate our troubles
and somehow break us out of these negative dynamics?
There are some hopeful trends. Religions seem to be undergoing
a revival, drug addition is somewhat moderating and Alcoholic
Anonymous Groups through-out the country are experiencing greater
and greater success. Private school enrollment has been steadily
increasing, resulting in at least some private and all church
schools teaching morals while our public schools continue to
perpetuate social and moral relativism (do your own thing philos-
ophy). More than hope alone, we must start taking steps to bring
about a better society.
The following are suggestions for improving our minds, mending
our hearts and healing our souls:
1. Voucher System - providing a choice of schools either public
or private
2. Alternate news media - we must support and defend all alter-
native means to inform and educate the public to truth
3. Forgiveness - we must see ourselves and others as we are,
forgiving ourselves and others, while giving up our resent-
ment and hatred for ourselves and others
4. Natural Family unit - must be viewed as the acid test for
good morality while re-uniting and reconciling lost indivi-
duals to truth and goodness setting out the family as the
model of good morals and our awareness must be heightened
about the origin of our coming into being through the natu-
ral family unit
These basic remedies will take time to become effective. So
there are no quick fixes to re-ordering and re-moralizing a
society. For meaningful progress to be achieved we must confront
our own inadequacies and short-comings so that the conquering of
one-self is to be a far greater and meaningful goal than in
conquering others.
Man is small and petty at times, consquently will man ever
learn to turn his back on physical security and embrace HIS
spirit that is forever!
George Greenville Butler