ShieldWife
Marchioness
I agree that the right has been conceding to the left and has thus been losing. I am not advocating some kind of deal with leftists whereby we let them keep their porn and they let us keep our free speech. They take away what ever rights they can from us when ever they can.The Right has been bleating on about freedom for decades while conceding every important issue to the Left. And yet you accuse me of making a Faustian bargain? That's not what I see when I look at history. What I see is the Right giving people "freedom," and the Left using that to remake society in their own image. Forgive me for wanting to try something different.
But, they aren’t all powerful. They might control the major institutions in society but the average people still have a lot of power over their own lives - their professions, what media they consume, freedom of speech, how their raise their children, and so much of what happens on the internet. If the elites always got their way, there wouldn’t be any right wing sites or speakers on the net.
So I’m not saying that we make deals, I am saying that we should be wary with empowering institutions controlled by the enemy. Especially when it is a “problem” that we can simply choose to avoid.
You can argue for the immorality of pornography or how it may be destructive, but it’s hard to call it a political solution when you know that the powers that be are against you and in fact you rather put you in prison than a child pornographer any day.Agree to all of this. I think there's a distinction to be made between the practicality of implementing a policy and the rightness of it. My goal is argue for the rightness of my position and provide a possible political solution.
How can you be countercultural in a society that actively works against you? Company is stronger than habit, after all. If you don't have communities of virtuous wives coming together to lead virtuous lives, you will be spiritually crushed by the machine of liberalism. I do hope you continue to lead a life of virtue; I just ask that, if you are serious about the problem, to recognize it as a political problem rather than an individual one and act accordingly.
Perhaps if countercultural communities are created...
The only way to be counter cultural is if society works against you. Otherwise it’s not counter culture. The fact is that there are countercultural
communities all over the nation, all over the Western world most likely but rarer in Europe than in the USA. The conservative homeschooling community is one such countercultural community. My family is friends with numerous other families in our region, we home schooling our kids, don’t own TV sets, our kids play together, have book clubs, play music, fight with boffer swords, learn about nature and farming, put on talent shows, read books written in the past that still have good values.
These communities can and do exist, because so much of the establishments power over our lives I power that we give them. We don’t have to send our kids to school, we don’t have to watch TV or see movies, we don’t have to enrich greedy corporations buying luxuries we don’t need, we don’t have to watch pornography, we don’t have to go to a university. So much power over what matters in life is still in our own hands, at least for now.