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[Cultural oblivion embraced
Nanny-State bureaucracy lets moral depravity flourish
By TOM HUMBLE
Calgary Sun
April 3, 2000
In my Humble opinion, the free-market media and its commentators faithfully reflect the attitudes and concerns of the general populace.
The corollary is that we, the people, appear to be most interested in things such as stray-cat bylaws, non-fluent cab drivers, sexual techniques, the secret perversions of entertainers and a litany of social and cultural minutia.
Pundits who comment on these things, in their best off-hand ironic style, strike a responsive chord in most of us. We treat secondary issues as though they were of primary importance.
We phone or e-mail the editor and argue pro and con among ourselves. It makes us feel good.
We've had our say. We've made a difference.
We've done our bit to make the world a better place.
Maybe, but mostly we've simply caressed our egos.
It's been a catharsis of conscience.
The deep tidal currents of cultural disintegration flow on, unaffected by the piddling concerns of a populace that has traded the self-imposed discipline of personal responsibility for the velvet bonds of a Nanny-State bureaucracy.
But those velvet bonds cover iron chains that will bind our grandchildren.
As we continue to bureaucratize our culture, we continue to foster the paradoxical combination of political tyranny and moral depravity.
During my lifetime, we have rejected, piecemeal, the Christian verities upon which our country, and our freedoms, were founded.
It is not feasible to repatriate them: Even if we wanted to, they're gone.
And there are no viable substitutes.
While we debate the bits and bytes of our social problems, our entire culture degenerates into a political, fiscal and moral wasteland.
We have rejected God. We deny our accountability to God.
Collectively, we submit to the logic and the "natural" urges of our nature. Collectively, we choose to go along for the ride to cultural oblivion. But individuals among us can subscribe to and uphold the Christian precepts subscribed to by our forebears.
Our forebears were far from being perfect but, individually and collectively, they publicly acknowledged the transcendent authority of God.
My Humble opinions on these matters, and my chosen style of expressing them, hark back to the more rigorous ethics of those times.
They are held in low esteem by the Big Nanny apologists who scoff at the best of our Christian heritage as being "out of date in this modern age."
Tom Humble appears Mondays in the Calgary Sun. Humble can be reached at thumble@telusplanet.net. Letters to the editor should be sent to callet@sunpub.com
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