Guest Post by John Hawkins
There was a time when every nation in the world would have benefitted from copying America’s culture, but those times have long since passed. Today? Not only is our degenerate culture inferior to what it used to be, but our culture is also one of the most broken, backward, and disgusting cultures on the planet. That is really saying something given that we’re now comparable to places like Palestine, Somalia, and Afghanistan.
Because American culture was so great in the past and still has pockets of excellence here and there, many people may think that’s too harsh, but it’s hard to overstate how many bizarre and harmful cultural trends we’ve normalized over the last few decades. In fact, this article was initially supposed to cover 10 items, but after it had ballooned to 20+ disastrous cultural trends, it seemed to make sense to cut it down to 6 horrific trends instead of only writing a sentence or two about abortion, the #metoo movement, pro-criminal policies, anti-Americanism, obsession with race, etc., etc., etc. As you read about these trends, keep in mind that 30 years ago, none of them were truly mainstream and widespread in American culture.
1) Promoting the gay and trans lifestyle to kids in schools: There was a time in America that parents were worried that gay Americans were trying to “recruit” their kids, but now that it’s pretty clearly actually happening, far too many people are shrugging their shoulders as if promoting being gay and trans to kids is something normal that should be going on in schools.
Why is this happening? Because being gay and trans is CELEBRATED in our culture. There’s tremendous peer pressure on kids to be gay and trans. I’ve had parents bemoan this fact to me. Their kid gets mocked or waved off for being straight and white, but if they were to claim they’re gay or trans, suddenly everyone would be pressured to be nice to them.
There’s a world of difference between saying, “People are what they are, and you shouldn’t hate someone for being gay or trans” and saying, “It’s a good thing to be gay or trans.” That’s not something we should be endorsing, encouraging, or promoting as a society. It doesn’t make for happier human beings, and it doesn’t make for a healthier society.
2) Confusion over how sex works: Human beings have been figuring out how to have sex without a lot of difficulty since… well, since there were humans. Yet, suddenly at liberal colleges across America, people seem to be BAFFLED by the whole process. Of course, this is largely because they’ve started ignoring every behavioral cue that human beings have paid attention to since the beginning of time.
“Oh, the two of them got drunk, made out in public, and headed back to his room to be alone? Well, that doesn’t mean anything.” Really? It doesn’t? “Oh, just because she said nothing while the guy she was making out with undressed her, put his hands all over her, and started having sex with her doesn’t mean she consented.” Since when? Because for thousands of years, that has signified consent. Oh, they both had a couple of drinks, so she can’t consent? Why not? Human beings have been drinking and having sex for thousands of years. They go together like peanut butter and jelly, but now it’s rape because both of them had a couple of beers? Ok, that’s uh… lunacy.
So, is the whole idea of affirmative consent. May I kiss you? May I kiss your neck? May I unbutton your blouse? May I give you a hickey? This sounds like something space aliens trying to figure out human mating habits would come up with, yet it’s being pushed by weirdos at colleges across America. If someone is having a problem figuring this out, that should be treated as a problem they need to work out because it’s them, not the system.
3) Masculine women and feminine men: Bizarrely, modern feminism simultaneously pushes the idea that men suck and that women should be more like men. Meanwhile, modern culture keeps trying to convince men that masculinity has been “reinvented” and it’s now all about crying, carrying a purse and generally behaving like a defective woman.
Stay-at-home moms and feminine women who want to please men are mocked by feminists, not men, while pathetic male simps shell out money to OnlyFans prostitutes for pretending to be nice to them via DMs or whine about how hard it is to date in incel forums.
The more masculine women become, and the more feminine men become, the less happy each sex becomes and the less attractive they are to the opposite sex. The idea that women and men are interchangeable simply isn’t true and the more people who buy into that lie, the more damage it will do.
4) Pornification: Pornography has always been around in one form or another, but in the Internet era, it has become so prevalent that it has bled over in a much wider variety of adjacent areas than most people will admit. As a society, we seem to have accepted the idea that men perusing through dozens or even hundreds of different types of sex scenes each day, all featuring different women, in an effort to sexually gratify themselves while looking at a computer screen, has no significant consequences. However, there’s no way that’s true.
Why are millions of women on OnlyFans? Why do so many people think it’s normal to expose children to drag queens? Why are we seeing an explosion in the number of transsexuals in America? Why do so many young women dress like prostitutes did thirty years ago? Why is our entertainment so sex drenched? Why is deviant behavior so much more accepted in society than it used to be? Pornography seems like part of the answer to all these questions, although unfortunately, it’s hard to prove that since there is a dearth of research about the subject (although most of the research out there certainly isn’t good).
In a healthier culture that wasn’t already overrun with so many moral problems that people don’t know how to deal with them all, this would be a major concern. In America, it’s just one horrible problem out of many.
5) Rampant tribalism: A multi-ethnic society that embraces tribalism is a society doomed to shake itself to pieces unless it changes course. How do you fix a society where different groups of Americans are encouraged to hate each other, lie about each other, and have fundamentally different beliefs about everything that matters including history, religion, culture, economics, race, and even our nation itself? When people are willing to excuse the worst misdeeds on their own side because the other side is supposedly worse, how do you hold everyone to the same standards? When the values of say Florida, Texas, and Utah are fundamentally incompatible with the values of say California, Washington, and New York to the point where each side sees people from the other as hostile to them, how do you hold the country together long-term? Realistically, you don’t.
6) Obsession with victimhood: Americans moved on from an honor culture to a dignity culture to most recently, a victimhood culture where people spend endless amounts of time trying to come up with ways they’ve been victimized. It should be obvious that this is incredibly unhealthy for a wide variety of reasons. It’s certainly not healthy to think of yourself as a victim and the price of refusing to take personal responsibility for your own life is to abandon your fate to people that don’t care about you as a human being.
Additionally, if you think of yourself as a victim, then you also have to cast some other person or group of people as your “oppressors.” This creates a never-ending cycle of antagonism where one group fails, takes no responsibility for their failure, and then creates genuine dislike that didn’t exist before by blaming someone else for their failures. It also creates a perverse situation where the worst bullies and villains in our society almost inevitably claim that they’re actually the victims of the people they’re bullying. You should be ASHAMED of being a victim, not looking for a way to portray yourself as a victim so you can bask in the pity and attention that goes with it.
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The goal is reduced birth rates. Depopulation.
Spay and neutering Lumpen for fun and profit. The manifestly sick programme of the Evil Fuckers is clearly demonic and They like it that way.
Sodom and Gommorrah had NOTHING on the end-stage USSA.
“Depopulation” is a passive aggressive word for Genocide. Call it what it is.
Multiculturalism is national suicide. Tribe up or die.
Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society…People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations. People use politics not just to advance their interests but also to define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not and often only when we know whom we are against… There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven.
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
– G.K. Chesterton
Yes
7. Rock ‘n’ roll music
People were in an uproar over it, especially over Elvis the Pelvis. The main trend has been toward accepting everything, beginning with the May 25th, 1787 CONstitutional coup-d’etat.
8. Making dropping out of school, not working, and having out of wedlock babies a profitable career choice.
Prof. Amy Wax said it best — and got into serious trouble for doing so …
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html
Another odd one if somewhat rare is these crazy women ” marrying themselves ” because they just can’t wait , or find , a mate.
She self identifies as bonkers.
So in love with herself that there is no room for anyone else.
I am beginning to change my thinking, there is really one primary trend, the US Government continually grows in size and power. In order to crush dissent, the USG advocates and utilizes it’s resources in support of trends that weaken the general public here and abroad. The information age has accelerated it’s power.
USA Inc. is a gigantic Blood Golem that we created ourselves…and EVERYTHING Man “creates” turns on him eventually.
This is a consequence of our overlords’ program of menticide (the intentional and deliberate destruction of a people’s mind) designed to drive us insane which in turn leads to socially disruptive and destructive behaviors. These trends do not bode well for humanity, it is a covert form of genocide. All this is being promoted in the socializing institutions of this country: the government, the media, education from pre K to higher- ed to even religion! In the very near future pedophilia will be celebrated, normalized as part of “Western culture”. Anyone who cannot see this coming is: braindead, comatose or anti-life!
It’s called “gaslighting”. Stop trying to control the language.
From the asshole who doesn’t discern between was and were.
Shouldn’t you be tossing your boyfriend’s salad for him right now?
‘The Dodgers Have Become the Bud Light of Baseball’: CatholicVote Blasts Dodgers for Caving to Anti-Catholic Drag Queens
CatholicVote’s decision comes after the team proudly announced that it was awarding the Sisters with its community Hero Award during its forthcoming June 16 gay pride night event.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is known for dressing in drag queen-inspired nun outfits to mock Catholics, including at pro-abortion rallies, according to Fox News. Dressed as nuns, the group attends parades to push the radical gay agenda…
“These homosexual bigots are known for simulating sodomy while dressed as nuns,” Donohue said. “They like to feature a ‘Condom Savior Mass,’ one that describes how the ‘Latex Host is the flesh for the life of the world.’”
Donohue also noted that the group also calls itself “Sister Homo Fellatio” and “Sister Joyous Reserectum” and pointed out that “only last month, the group held an event mocking the Virgin Mary and Jesus on Easter Sunday.”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/05/23/dodgers-become-bud-light-baseball-catholic-vote-blasts-dodgers-caving-anti-catholic-drag-queens/
When “Twerking” became a thing that was the end. There is no where to go from there but down.
The “traditionalists” are the folks who happily sat back and watched or encouraged the massive takeover of the economy by the government during the government/ Federal Reserve-created first great Depression, that laid the foundation for the power and violence of government being employed on behalf of these degenerate changes. This despite supposedly defeating fascism in Europe and supposedly opposing “Communism.” Government controlling the minds of 90% of each generation from K through 12 is exactly how each generation has become worse and worse off.
‘other’/self-destruction is the tradition that all the interim tradition weeds sprout from.
You do not need convoluted or complex explanations for decline in the U.S. This is not some secret plan by the Jews, Bildenbergs, Trilaterals, Khazarians, Illuminati, Templars, etc. Wealth and power lead to affluence. Affluence leads to degeneracy. Degeneracy leads to decline. It’s the same pattern over and over again. Even though lemmings committing mass suicide is a myth, it’s a good metaphor for human (who are animals) behavior.
Maybe convincing humans that they are mere animals is the problem.
rust cohle for precedent ….
I find that animals behave better than many humans. Perhaps “civilization” itself is the problem.
“” symbol-Judo.
Humanimal creates jungles, fly-lords, everywhere s/he congests. The more dense the congestion, the deeper the “civilization.”
nothing “leads” anywhere. all those compartment-falsies are “in there” simultaneously & always.
“we” is the bubble-bubble-toil-&-trouble cauldron.
& sherds raison detre is herds … to feed the shepherds.
Those must be good drugs you’re taking. I still haven’t decoded your message.
decode of the “drugs are typing these posts” comment:
“it can’t be me, which can only mean that guy must be on drugs.”
Civilization requires one to be civilized. Take a look around you. When was the last time you saw civility? Wolves are more civilized.
I see it all the time, but I’m looking for and expecting it. You’ll get no argument from me on the point that it is in decline, even rapid decline, but The Light remains. For now.
Also, everyone has to be the first one sometime. I find it best not to hesitate when it’s my turn…and that’s been working for me.
Good for you. I keep hoping for civility to make a comeback and honestly sometimes a random person will surprise me. Then I read the news. SMH.
OK, you’ve pointed out what we already knew.
Now name the jews responsible, or STFU.
We can only hope that the missing ammonium nitrate is heading to multiple fag pride parades this June .
Your comment is so wrong, I upvoted you. I couldn’t help myself.
#1
Tilting at windmills while kicking God to the curb.