Why I Write This Blog

Some people have criticised my blog posts to be 'negative', 'judgmental' or 'disagreeable'. That's fine. To be frank, our society is one that is so unethical, immoral and decadent. There is no nicer way to say it. I will not be saying nice things when it is not warranted. I am not for praising people as some people would like. What I am saying is a realistic account or prophesy of our modern world. Honestly, our society is so immune to immorality and corruption that so many are blind to it. The ignorance of the masses is the main factor that has inspired me to write this blog. Most people have no sense of right or wrong and so they only act according to their interests, without considering the needs of others. It is time our society turns away from its decadence. If my next few posts shock you into the accepting the reality, it should.

What is Wrong with Our Society?

There are many things wrong with our world. We expect others to respect us, but we makes excuses when it comes to respecting others. We scream blue murder when others judge us, but we judge others ourselves. In an attempt to justify our actions, we use the pretext of human selfishness to do so. We do so by saying that everyone is either sensitive, judgmental, proud, arrogance or full of jealousy. Not everyone is exactly the same regarding these character traits, but we all have a tendency to allow them to control our thoughts and actions. Some people are able to control these urges, while others can't. We all have a weaknesses. At the heart of all the problems in our world is the failure to love others.

I will be exploring the dysfunctional aspects of our society at an individual, family and community level in the next few posts.

A Counter Revolution against the Norm

American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Indeed, it is. However, whether the change is good or not is another matter. In a world that is becoming increasing feminist, The Antigones has started, not a movement, but a gathering of people to counter the increasing feminisation of the Europe, and the world at large. Some have labelled it an extremist group. Some  have expressed admiration for its courage to stand up for real womanhood which has been destroyed by radical feminist groups. Some have applauded it as the leader of an antifeminist counter-revolution.

Feminism has destroyed womanhood by telling women that they need to become like men or that women do not need men. It is based on the idea that women do not need men in the family, community or social life. It has failed to recognise that men and women are inherently different and that both have different gifts. Everyone has gifts that are given to them to serve others, not harm or hurt others. Individualistic ideologies, including feminism has conditioned society to think that help others is a sign of oppression.

The Antigones embodies real womanhood and femininity. It makes it clear that real womanhood is not about disempowering men. It is about empowering men. Only when men and women help each other will there be community. One's sexuality is a unique gift, not a curse. Feminism uses the historical injustices faced by women as a pretext to disempower men, leading to the breakdown of families and hence, community.

Watch the video message from The Antigones to Femen, a radical feminist group. 

"I can't be Unfair, Only others can be Unfair to me"

Australia prides itself on giving everyone the fair go. Do we really? It seems as though many in the mainstream society, that is, the postmodern progressives, think we are becoming fairer because we call out racism and sexism. We are angered by such attacks, especially racist attacks. This may be true, but there are many assumptions our society makes about who is an extremist and deserves to be called out for their beliefs.

Don't believe me? People who do not support abortion, euthanasia or gay marriage are dubbed as "naive" or "extremist". 

One would quite rightly wonder why it is some people are free to have their beliefs and why some are not. Whether one supports the progressive agenda is a fundamental freedom of belief, a core belief that the progressive espouses. Therefore, it is the height of hypocrisy for the postmodern progressives to attack those who are opposed to its agenda for their beliefs.

Not only do the postmodern progressives attack its opposition as extremists, but it attacks all those who attempt to critique it. They have imposed PC, which should stand  for punitive conformity to the progressive agenda, not political correctness, on the society as a whole. It accuses conservatives as hypocritical, but it appears that the progressives are worse. The conservative agenda does not impose PC, but it against PC. 

The progressives core ethic is that it knows best for society, and hence that is can't be unfair, and that only others can be unfair to the progressive movement. 

The Pride in Helping the Marginalised

Some people help the marginalised, not out of genuine care and love for them, but out of pride. They feel sympathy for these marginalised groups and even guilty, for being in an "elite" position. Catherine Deveny, in the SBS series Go Back to Where You Came From, upon arrival in Afghanistan cries about how guilty she feels for being Australian. The thing is, that one cannot change their background. No one wants to be marginalised or oppressed. However, for some, it is their story of the past and present which cannot be changed. Thus, there is no point in feeling guilty for anyone who is marginalised as one's social or cultural status cannot be helped.

However, such as statement is made out of pride. It is the type of pride one feels for having more or faring better than others. It may not be malevolent, or even be of benevolent intentions, but it is inherently based on pride; it is condescension. This explains why so many in the Third World are extremely skeptical about aid from Western nations. The people of Third Word countries are all too familiar with the condescension shown by many Western aid organisations.This pride comes from being humans with a greater reason to be proud. When there is no greater reason to be proud, we tend to feel envious or jealous of those who fare better than us.

Helping the weak when one is strong makes one proud, but helping the strong when one is weaker makes one feel jealous.

How an Egalitarian Society can Encourage Reverse Discrimination

Despite what majority of people think, discrimination is prevalent everywhere, even in an egalitarian society like Australia. Egalitarianism is not about fairness or justice. Egalitarian is merely about not having anyone put oneself as superior to others. Not having any "tall poppies" has nothing to do with fairness or justice. It only concerns people not elevating their position or status above others. Isn't that fairness, you may say. No, its not. Egalitarianism can give rise to, as it has in Australia, reverse discrimination on the grounds that the underdogs need to be privileged to be given a fair go.

Those of underdog status often abuse their status by playing victim to force others, the silent dominant groups whether majority or minority into control. Sounds familiar? It should. Not all the minorities by population abuse their status to control the dominant groups and force them into submission to their will. Egalitarianism has lead those of "underdog" status to do so. Such reverse discrimination is often worse than that of the majority because those perceived underdog status are able to legitimise such discrimination. Those who do not cry victim cannot legitimise discrimination. The differences in ability to legitimise discrimation is discrimation in itself. Those who use their "underdog" status to do so such hang their heads in shame.

Love at First Sight

You become so attracted to you each you engage in intimate physical activity and get into a romantic relationship. You go all the way. You think this stabilises the relationship. A few weeks later, you break up. Both of you feel hurt. Why? By going all the way, you felt like you were in love in an uncommitted relationship, but you weren't really in love. You fell in lust. You were seeking your own physical or emotional gain. Maybe you have been played on. Maybe you weren't, but either way, both of you were in the relationship for yourself, not the other person. This is not love. This is against love. This may sound like an ancient concept, but you have dishonoured the body of the other person. You used it for yourself and so now you feel guilty. You heart is broken.

You see, dear friend, there is no such thing as love at first sight.

I am not in any way saying that people deserve the hurt. I am explaining how people become hurt. If you feel guilty because you have had this experience, forgive yourself. That's the only thing you can do. Forgive yourself and move on. You have  just made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. You may need to humble yourself and apologise to the other person. You may feel humiliated by doing this, but this is the only way you can forgive yourself and move on. 

Winking Eyes

You step into the room. The place smells of fun, laughter and, love. You have gotten what you are looking for. Someone who seems charming, attractive and sweet.  You want to hang onto that person who you feel in love with, that is all you are thinking about and you cannot think about anything else. With sweat-filled brows and shaking hands, you hide somewhere where the new crush and his or her friends cannot see you. Wiping  your brows clean in secret and talking to some friends to calm yourself down, you attempt to walk up to the apple of your eye. You say "hello" as confidently as you can make it sound. If they said hello back in an interested manner, you keep talking. If not, you attempt to find out who they are interested in.

Fortunately for you, they seem interested and talk. You continue to chit-chat about life. He or she tells you about his or her life. After a while when you feel that you know each other so intimately, you kiss. Tongue-to-tongue. You kiss hard.

Love at first sight, or is it?

Story to be continued...

What is love?

Love is something that each and every one of us desires. We may deny it, but it is something which cannot be denied. Many feel as though they are unloved. Some are so desperate for it, and end up looking for it in the wrong places.

To a child, it is found in the protection by its parents. To a teenager, it is found in being is close to someone's heart. To a lonely person, it is the company of a stranger. To the homeless, it is found in the hot soup given to them by little old ladies who spend all night cooking for them. To the elderly, it is found in having someone to look after their needs.

The common thread among these acts of love is care shown to another person because one genuinely means it. Love is directed towards another person. It is against selfish desires. Doing something kind is not done with love if it did not care for others for their sake. Love is not an emotion. It is a spirit. "Feelings" of love is not love. One may feel in love, but not really love the person one has such feelings for. Love is action. It is kind. It seeks justice and truth.

Love or lust?

Many people in our society confuse love and lust. This is understandable given the amount of sexualisation, not just that of women, but also that of men and children. (Think about the last billboard you have seen if you are in Australia. You may think this is a far-fetched statement that children and men are also sexualised. Sexualisation is the depiction of someone as someone who is worthy of one's attention only because of their sex appeal. The media is the main culprit for the sexualisation of our modern world. Almost any young person who you know would have kissed a person of the opposite sex. Anyone who hasn't is considered abnormal and naive or a goody-two-shoes. This is how inculcated our society is with the idea that without sexual experiences, one is not only incomplete, but not human.

What happened Last Night?

Your face is filled with sweat and you pant as you walk into the bathroom to get dressed into your best clothes. With high heels, you tether into the room where people chatter loquaciously, people danced in a circle and people hanging onto someone they think they are attracted to, but are not sure if they are, but they hang onto them just in case. Above all, you see people kissing. Yes, people who don't know each other kiss. Hard. Not only do they do it with one person, they do it with more than one person on the same night.
Girls spread nasty rumours about girls who have found favour with the boys. Boy fight with boys who the girls find charming. What's more? School-aged children (yes, children) get involved in this type of activity.

Kissing is now casual. Anyone who has not kissed more than one person by the age of 18 is considered not only abnormal, but a self-righteous, moralistic bigot. Sex is now casual. Anyone who believes sex before marriage is wrong is not only abnormal, but naive, conservative, and even self-righteous. Gone are the days of moral codes and honoring others. Sounds good, doesn't it? No, it does not. In any society which thrives on sexual freedom, people and families suffer. Men, women and children have been destroyed by such conduct because sexual relations ties people together. When such ties are broken, people are hurt. People seek to get their own way and seek revenge.

Welcome of the world of sexual freedom and sexual rights.

The Origins of the Sexual Revolution

In order for one to understand the history of sexuality and sexual behaviour, one must understand Alfred Kinsey. According to  Miriam Grossman, a medical doctor who dubbed the modern sexual norms as "madness", Kinsey is the one who has influenced modern sexual behaviour. I will be exploring more about the history of the sexual revolution in the next few posts. I strongly recommend you check out Grossman's blog: http://www.miriamgrossmanmd.com/blog/. She attempts to clear up the confusion about sex that many youths are facing.

It's Not Possible for me to Discriminate, but it is Possible for Others to Discriminate

It is generally accepted that there are no truths. It follows from this premise that every view is equally valid. No view should take dominance over others, or so, as the postmodernists (or radicals) like to maintain. Are the postmodernists really neutral? The postmodern progressive left have set a certain set of standards that the  general society should following, on the grounds that equally can only be achieved by collective tolerance and respecting the views of others to be equally valid. This has allowed some groups to claim that others are discriminating against them simply because they are criticised by others. The groups that criticise others for the wrongness of their actions are silenced because on grounds that their views are not correct.

The hot topics of our modern society such a racism, homophobia and misogyny have been subject to the postmodernist respectful guise of tolerence. Anyone who criticises a group for being unethical or immoral is immoral or corrupt themselves because they are making their views dominant. This seems to make sense from a postmodernist perspective, but isn't this rebuttal a criticism in itself? Since, it is a criticism of another's views, isn't it just as wrong to make such a criticism. For one to criticise others for being critical of one, while being critical of that criticism is one of height of hypocrisy. 

This is exactly the radical left does. Those who are against them are bigots, those who are for them are virtuous. This hypocrisy is one of the most devious, disgusting kind, that deserves the greatest criticism. It deserves the utmost shame. 

It is based on the erroneous premise that "it is not possible for me to discriminate, but it is possible for others to discriminate". It is not a matter of being left or right. It is a matter of truth versus lies.