Saturday, September 17, 2005

"Text interpreted out of its context produces a pretext." "Text extracted from context yields a con." I have often heard these trite aphorisms in reference to Biblical interpretation, but similar principles also apply in assessing a culture or divisions within that society.

Compartmentalization and specialization are necessary and useful tools toward a culture’s progress as long as the total accumulation of these separate divisions of labor cooperate toward that success . Very often this cooperation is coerced by checks and balances operating between them. However, when one or more of these stake their parameters well beyond the reasonable boundaries of their specialized arena and inoculate themselves from the logically applied opposition of the others, that society begins to ‘balkanize’ and deteriorate. Text is taken out of context.

As balkans begin to form, the major motivation for each is a lust for dominion. In many cultures power accumulation is sought by means of weapons, in ours, by means of politics. The political sphere has become the compartment ‘expanding its tent’ through which it attempts to drive stakes into the hearts of competitors. The viciousness of the struggle for supremacy has increased in proportion to the growth of federal government, especially of the federal courts. ‘...One nation under Washington, with life for some and liberty for a few...’

This runs contrary to the desires of our country’s framers. They severed civil ties to England, risking life and property, to re-acquire that which ‘Nature’s God’ had entitled them and to reclaim the ‘unalienable rights’ with which they were endowed by their Creator. To them, this was the context by which all subsequent texts were to be interpreted.

Our modern political upstarts are battling to change this context; the context by which we have grown and prospered so admirably. Their actions are meant to redefine our longstanding Constitution and Declaration to parallel their own post-modern amorphous context. In order to do this they must destroy all rival gods, especially that of Christianity, America’s foundational underpinning.

The new secular dominionists major on certain strategies from which many minors follow. This is the dominant propulsion behind such strong support for separation of church and state, abortion rights, and teaching of evolution-based ‘science’ only. Any attempted alterations in these political-religious dogmas evoke squeals of protest reminiscent of a spoiled brat’s tantrum.

Trying to follow the logic of or define those in this modernist/post-modernist compartment is virtually impossible. If God is dead, leaving no authoritative instructions, and life developed through the mindless caprice of random chance, authoring no authoritative instructions, then there exist no universal morals or ethics, except, perhaps, survival of the fittest, might makes right, and whatever happens to exist at present is right. From this political philosophy, support for abortion on demand makes sense. The strong are superior in this scheme, so can take any available liberty in actions toward the weak. But where does the precept of ‘social justice’ come from? Under evolutionary tenets it is meaningless. Minority rights, women’s rights, compassion for the families of the dead soldiers in Iraq, sorrow for the dead and evacuees through Katrina, and any nature of victimhood, etc, ad infinitum, just become ad nauseam levels of goose farts in a high wind within this pseudo-context.

This incongruity provides no difficulty for the post-modernist, however. Truth and falsehood are understood to be ultimately meaningless- feeling and emotion rule the debate. The assertion of any ‘truth’ is only used as a means to their end of increasing control. Parading victims and other hard cases before the public is not primarily meant to help improve the conditions that they expose. It mainly serves the purpose of swaying feelings and emotions of the masses of ‘lower intellect’ in order to garner support for the elite’s power grab. The success of achieving their ends is more than abundant justification for any means applied. They assume their own superiority, their god-like natures, and believe that they are the fittest of the species and should not only survive, but dominate. So to all of those whom they purport to defend they ultimately say, "Stand up and speak up loudly for your rights as long as you remain our mascots, but stay out of OUR way, bee-utch!"

The post-modernist analyzes the text out of any reality based context and perpetrates a major con job. Since their means have been in existence for long periods of time and have proven to provide adequately for few of their claims, their stated, intended ends must also be rejected.
Muckraking claims of others’ evil, followed by assertions of their own abilities to build a Utopian dreamworld are cultic characteristics fitting only for the Jim Joneses and Charles Mansons of the world.

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