That was a great post!
The funny thing is that at least a decade ago, Michael Savage was talking about pornography and how you could judge a culture by their porn. He stated at that time that Japan had the most vile, degrading, fecal-centered porn that he had ever seen. Just disgusting—and that interest in child porn-—(this is my opinion) probably came out of the Samurai practice of men sodomizing young boys and the lack of dignity and worth given to women. Christianity didn’t end the idea of “sodomy is good” like it did in Western Civilization.
Worldview matters and the Judeo-Christian Ethics created Romance and Chivalry and put women on a pedestal where they chose their own husbands. Gave them power and men had to work and grovel and show respect to win their hand—show competence. Now, nothing—they get easy sex with no commitment....which means nothing in the end. My mother always told me—if you give away the milk, there is no reason to take the cow.—(I might have butchered that???)
The Brave New World illustrates a world where there is no love—no biological connections— mother and father have become ugly concepts—where children are raised and conditioned by the state and have no biological connectedness to other human beings which means they are unable to connect—like the Romanian orphans.
Exactly like the radical egalitarianism of Marx where humanity is no longer a part of man where everyone is interchangeable, biology has no meaning and the words wife and husband are obsolete. Love is nonexistent—because God is nonexistent in their world-—no hope, faith or charity. Ugly cruel meaningless relationships.
"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free," is the standard version of that old saw.
The real and deeper issue is the stealing of the soul that such 'unhmane' service to the chemical rush brings about. The rush is obtazined with no connection to a taboo structure, and taboo structures in society have always been connected to a god-fear of one kind or another. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. What do societies become when they eschew wisdom? We are witnessing the phenomenon in our dying American Republic, where serving great lies has become the daily work of the information class (euphemistically called the mainstream media). Disconnecting the human psyche from God is what these are actually serving, and that is sourced in the father of lies, a murderer from the start. Murdering the souls of men and women is the work of, you guessed it, the most hate-filled evil in the Universe.
In countries like Japan, it is not enough for the evil one to turn their society into a godless mire, the evil one feasts upon the death of their souls. Pornographers make a fortune murdering the human soul. But they are even small fries compared to the wholesale soul murder accomplished with addictions. Think in terms of Japanese youth being addicts to a brain rush they have no societal taboos to help them know right from wrong. The Japanese culture, once strong and vibrant, was caught unaware of its vulberability to the oldest trick, bread and circuses.
The real and deeper issue is the stealing of the soul that such 'unhmane' service to the chemical rush brings about. The rush is obtazined with no connection to a taboo structure, and taboo structures in society have always been connected to a god-fear of one kind or another. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. What do societies become when they eschew wisdom? We are witnessing the phenomenon in our dying American Republic, where serving great lies has become the daily work of the information class (euphemistically called the mainstream media). Disconnecting the human psyche from God is what these are actually serving, and that is sourced in the father of lies, a murderer from the start. Murdering the souls of men and women is the work of, you guessed it, the most hate-filled evil in the Universe.
In countries like Japan, it is not enough for the evil one to turn their society into a godless mire, the evil one feasts upon the death of their souls. Pornographers make a fortune murdering the human soul. But they are even small fries compared to the wholesale soul murder accomplished with addictions. Think in terms of Japanese youth being addicts to a brain rush they have no societal taboos to help them know right from wrong. The Japanese culture, once strong and vibrant, was caught unaware of its vulnerability to the oldest demonic trick, bread and circuses, murderer of cultures for as long as humans have gathered into groups and clans and established taboos.
I would amend the above from "...they chose their own husbands" to ""...they chose their own husbands from the subset of candidates acceptable to Father". Disaster follows when teenage girls are allowed unlimited discretion to couple with whatever loser comes along.
Your points are well taken, and I would add that the revelation at Sinai also included a kind of sexual revolution: in contrast to all the cultures of antiquity, with their pederasty and sacred prostitutes and lecherous gods, the ancient Hebrews were instructed to restrict sexual activity to marriage with the purpose of procreation. It is under-appreciated how radically different the Torah was to the ambient cultures. Orthodox Jews are permitted some forms of contraception but only in the context of a family oriented towards children (and we still have a high fertility rate.