Culture Under Assault

Written on Monday, January 21, 2013 by George McClellan

To me the term “American culture” encompasses the whole of the history of the discovery, exploration, development, conflicts and growth of America from the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock to this very minute. This long process, started by Europeans, saw the introduction of social theories on personal liberty and civil rights, economic development and even classical literature that praised the social experiments of prior civilizations like Greece and Rome and embraced their discoveries. Most important of all was the introduction of universal education of the masses, a social concept first introduced in Scotland, so every man and child could read the bible. That opened the flood gates of knowledge and discovery.

The movement from agriculture to industry was so rapid......so great was the need that even children, let alone slaves, were thrown into the maw of the labor force and worked in such squalid conditions, coal mines for example, that a whole new industry of empathy was developed bringing to the consciousness, the social evils of child labor and poverty that needed to be addressed…… Today we no longer see our political leadership guided by the laws made by our founding fathers.

What we have today is the result of the slow imposition of a society controlled by our intellectual betters, guiding on contrived issues of no importance to anybody except the political machine to be used as diversions. …....To Read More…..