***DanH*** Klaxon!!

Your regular reminder Stirling to put the internet down for a bit and step out into the world wide world instead.

I thought of the title 'social liberalism and social conservatism'....but as social liberalism and support for degeneracy are practically synonymous these days I went with degeneracy.

We have far too many 'deep fakes' out there pretending to be conservatives when in reality the only thing they want to conserve is their bank account.

Watson has a good video out on this topic out now.

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Instead of teaching our children about myths like equality and far left talking points we should be teaching them about duty and responsibility.

This country has been spiralling down for decades and it's time for a correction.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 Sep 2019 8.55pm)

It's the Western World that is changing, the UK unfortunately cannot be isolated from this. That doesn't mean I totally disagree with what you said - this is why I live in the TRNC, where you can more or less say what you want, in a social setting (but don't diss Ataturk in public!)

Degenerate.

Interesting word which has, unsurprisingly, similar but slightly different definitions. Google says this:-

"having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline."

Merriam Webster says this:-

"having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state"

The key words there are "considered normal and desirable" and "ancestral or former".

So it's very clear that those who think our society is degenerate do so from an "ancestral or former" perspective that they consider "normal and desirable".

Which, of course, it no longer is. It isn't normal in 2019 to look to times past as your guide to what is desirable. That some do doesn't make them normal. What is normal is what society as a whole considers to be normal. Not those stuck in a time warp.

The world has changed. You might not like it. I might not like some aspects of it either but I accept it has changed and nothing I can do will make the slightest difference to that. Pushing water uphill only gets you wet. Much better to ride the flow, find some dry land and prosper in the best way available.

That is not to say that we don't need to teach our children about duty and responsibility. Of course we do and, from what I see in my local schools, we do. We just do it in the context of the way society has developed. We have a duty towards the less fortunate among us. We have a responsibility to care for the environment. I see many well educated and motivated youngsters coming out of our schools.