The Unbinding of America

By Rich Kozlovich

For those of you who read history you know who the Iron Chancellor of Germany, Otto Von Bismarck was.  He once made a comparison between America and Europe, noting America was a real country because American's shared the same language and pretty much the same cultural values.  Whereas he noted Europe was merely a geographical designation.  Why is that important?  Let's see.

The Natural function of the human mind is to see patterns.  Since I read so much I often times see patterns more easily and more quickly than others.  Now that's a good thing, isn't it?  Well, yes and no.  Since seeing farther, deeper and wider than everyone else may be its own reward, but it also carries its own punishment.

Over fifty years ago I worked at a newspaper and it seemed to me the news was being controlled by a handful of people in the world because the same news, about the same subjects, kept being touted everywhere, and the AP the UPI had a major influence on what was "the news".  

However, just about everything fascinates me and I read more than the local newspaper, so I knew there was a whole lot more going on in the world than what was typically being reported in newspapers, magazines, or on television.  As a result, I saw that as a pattern.  A pattern of controlled news, and I said that to others.  Big mistake. 

When, or if,  you see things farther, deeper and wider than everyone else, you might want to keep it to yourself, or you might find there's an excellent chance you become the outsider.   It's impossible to explain anything to people who are so ignorant, they don’t even know they're ignorant. Worse yet, when they're also arrogant in their ignorance, they like being ignorant, and think they have all the answers, when in reality they don’t even know the questions.  

Of course they must defend their level of ignorance by attacking you personally, which compounds their ignorance with stupidity.  Furthermore, if there's a crowd they will resort to consensus stupidity and do it with great glee.  Teaching them the truth is spitting into the wind, and you end up on the dirty end of the stick.

However, as you get older finding oneself in the dirty end of the stick is less upsetting.  I've become comfortable with being on the dirty end of the stick, and I've learned to like it!  Now, I will admit, that's not normal, since "normal" people want acceptance.  Expecting the "normals" to abandon their friends, and their friends values, and accept what is true predicated on history and reality, is at best, a difficult proposition.  Make no mistake, heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart.  

As the years went by I saw that pattern of selective news more and more clearly, and I would often say everything you see on the news, everything you read in the newspapers is either a lie of commission or a lie of omission.  Overstated I will admit, but my intention was to make everyone think, since as an overall perspective, that statement was true.   

Now, fifty years later, everyone knows all the news they've been fed has been a lie, and is controlled by those with an agenda with narratives they demand everyone to accept, and will anyone who dares oppose them, attacking their character!  There's a certain satisfaction in seeing all you've said, and been criticized for, come into focus for everyone else.  That's the reward. That's the punishment.  I would rather have been wrong. 

In my early 30's I began to grasp the number one problem in black America wasn't racism, it was single parent families.  I doesn't matter what ethnic group it may be, single parent families destroy the foundational structure that makes a society work. Both Jews and Asians suffered discrimination and isolation for decades and yet thrived here in America. Why?  Strong family values and community ties.

No group can lift itself up by their boot straps without the interlinking mutually beneficial support of a community committed to family values.  The values that were the foundational moral values of the Judaic/Christian ethic that made America great, the only stable moral foundation that's ever existed.  The values that bound society.  The values America is abandoning, and now America is becoming unbound. 

These values have been hated by the left forever, since leftism is foundationally atheistic.  Values the left has been working to destroy starting with the French Revolution.  Values that were imported to America in the late 19th century.  By the middle of the 20th century, they were making huge strides in destroying those values, and it started with public education, and a corrupt media that reinforced the leftist dogma being foisted on the nation.  And now we have a stunningly corrupt administration and a corrupt and insane Congress forcing the nation to accept insanity as the new "normal".

Their goal was to make sure the "apple fell as far away from the tree as possible", and that had to start with early education.  Their goal was to make the state, not the children's parents nor the churches, but the state the ultimate moral arbitrator in all things.  The state would be God, and all would obey, or else. 

 “The latest trend in language is to make certain words mean everything. When that happens they mean nothing. The other trend is to reverse what they had always meant in the past. This only clouds understanding. Is it possible that is the goal of those engaging in such practices?”  - Thomas Sowell

Well, many like Thomas Sowell saw this coming long ago, and now society has come to realize:  It's here!  And America, like Europe, is being Balkanized, and no longer shares common values.