The scarcest “luxury good” for Americans today is an intact family.
Sybaritic twit.
I have a friend whose wife is a government school teacher. She doesn’t believe children need fathers in the home, despite all the empirical evidence that single-motherhood is a recipe for living in poverty and failure in school.
Her two children were raised in a home with a father of course, but that doesn’t mean anything.
When laws are enacted to combat white privilege, it won’t be the privileged whites who are harmed. Poor whites will bear the brunt.
This is 100% true. When white teachers and professors talk about ways to "de-center whiteness" and suggest subtle handicaps and humiliations for white students, what they are really saying is "I don't deserve my status or my career, but I'm not giving up any of it. I'll just make the next generation pay for my privilege. That way I keep the house, the car, the career, the benefits... and I'll make other people's children pay for it."
“But she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society should “evolve” beyond them.
What could explain this?”
AFFLUENZA!
“Luxury Beliefs”
BRILLIANT TERM - I’ve been looking for a concise term for the Left since college, and this is it!
So, back during the Cold War, a Leftist could be anti US-nukes, since they had big daddy (conservatives) covering their backs. Leftists could be for destroying the inner cities, since the had big daddy still running the suburbs, to which they moved.
The list is endless...except there is a LIMIT. What happens when big daddy is out-voted, and no one is left to protect them from their “Luxury Beliefs” anymore? Then life for them will get FAR MORE DIFFICULT. For example, gays in Europe that support the importing of Muslims by the millions, knowing that big daddy will still protect them (mostly)...but, eventually, and sooner rather than later, they will be living under Sharia. No more big daddy - so those ISIS videos will be their futures.
What we believe is very powerful and determines our future.
Believe the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and God's gift of righteousness and enjoy a density of LIFE!
“In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.”
Minor point here: It is now Luxury Beliefs and Teslas.
“Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson), who served in the Air Force, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge.”
Typo here, it should say “WAS a Ph.D. candidate”, at least after this piece makes it to his department at Cambridge.
Another good article on “Do as I say, not as I do.”
nothing new under the sun- rampant sin- that’s all- and that is what God is going to judge the unsaved world for- They think they are being innovative- ‘enlightened’ etc- they are not- the world has already been there, done that- and yep- God judged those nations that practiced such immorality too
A good father reflects the Father.
The negative effects are more than just having no family and no fathers.
Even a good secular father reflects Fatherly values.
Christian values is where the civil a society comes from in this country.
People are their own little gods, it is our downfall.
Too many little gods wrecking society for their own little special kingdoms of selfishness within their own pathetic little corrupt minds.
The arrogance of placing our own thinking above the creators is actually quite mind boggling to me.
It’s not really that new. I remember a joke from the 70s, forget who told it, “I could never afford to think property was a crime”.
A good father reflects the Father.
The negative effects are more than just having no family and no fathers.
Even a good secular father reflects Fatherly values.
Christian values is where the civil a society comes from in this country.
People are their own little gods, it is our downfall.
Too many little gods wrecking society for their own little special kingdoms of selfishness within their own pathetic little corrupt minds.
The arrogance of placing our own thinking above the creators is actually quite mind boggling to me.
A former classmate from Yale recently told me “monogamy is kind of outdated” and not good for society.
“I wanna get to know her...”
Maybe she’s lying to you. Her statements don’t make sense....unless she wants a husband for financial security, but would like the option of whoring around on the side occasionally. I can’t think of any other reason.
What could explain this?
Secular humanist leftards believe in subjectivism and relativism. This means they can accept experimental lifestyles, and permissive morality
Charles Murray described this all in 2012 in his book “Coming Apart.”
One of his basic themes is that virtue-signaling leftist-leaning upper class elites generally do NOT live by the value they espouse - they stay married and monogamous, they don’t do habitually do drugs and they emphasize education - and pass these behaviors on to their kids, which is why they stay in the upper class.
The post-modern leftist values of abortion, single-motherhood, divorce, drug-use, mass public education rather are for the lower classes, who are then decimated by them
