The Kids of the Me-Generation Withdraw

 

Ideas have consequences.  Moral relativism was a philosophy based upon the denial of moral absolutes.  

 

Ideas have consequences.  Hiroshima.  The Holocaust.  There was a reason that students were allowed to major in philosophy in institutions of higher learning. 

 

Moral relativism was a philosophy based upon the denial of moral absolutes.  Public enemy number one is moral absolutes, moral principals, in the age of diversity.  In the age of diversity, I am free to create my own values so that a value system without true value promotes selfishness.  Moral relativism meets human freedom in the political issues of our day. 

 

The abortion issue of the 1970s separated Americans. In Roe v. Wade, “privacy of morality” came to the discussion of whether abortion was evil.  The Supreme Court essentially said that it is not for the government to determine the question, but rather each individual woman.  And in the same time frame, public schools have been teaching the philosophy of moral relativism, where no one was right, no one was wrong. 

 

It was and is the age of diversity, and the nation was split on the issue of abortion, on gay marriage.  Moral relativism states that morality is not universal but changeable relative to changing times, a subjective feeling not based on good or bad, individually based.   Values are just relative to a culture.  Laws of one child in China were moral there but not in the western hemisphere.    

 

This was the culture wars.  Home-schooling was one response, a withdrawl response, rather than converting this pluralistic society.  Sloth means the passivity of the will, and to a degree this response was a form of passivity, breaking down community. 

 

The consequence of a flawed philosophy is the end of this civilization.  With the spread of moral relativism, the human species is more and more trivialized, relativized through the whole world as western pop culture takes hold through media.  The loss of moral principals means the end of our species and damning our souls, said C.S. Lewis, and a society will perish if moral relativism survives.  Moral relativism was not just a flawed philosophy for individuals, but for society, promoting selfishness to a new height.  No society has survived with a society of relativists. 

 

Do laws get passed to maximize human happiness?  Politics does meet religion, and fewer young people desire to get involved, and as a consequence a sense of community seems farther and farther removed. 

 

Politics and religion:  the story of the second millennium was the break up of Christianity in the world.  This divided Christian church in a divided world was bound to continue to occur, with 20,000 denominations since 1054. The ultimate effect was not one of multiplication of faith as much as amputation of limbs, as people were ready to fall off.  

Was the same break up coming in the way of govenments?  With this kind of leadership model, in a changing world, by those schooled in moral relativism, we will all become indifferent to others, out for ourselves.  THIS was a new paradigm that will one day destroy institutions. When in the age of media, since the advent of television, the search for beauty replaces the search for truth.  Or has it already destroyed politics?