Reading "Homegrown Democrat" by Garrison Keeler. I seem to like about 35-40% of what he says, and dislike 60-65%. Mostly I dislike his calumniating of people who disagree with him calling them stone-brained, squinty, and other things. He did have good things to say about Nixon, however, and that was suprising because Nixon is supposed to be the Great Satan of the Democratic Party.
Anyways, before I had to go to work I was going to add, that Garrison Keeler was a proponent of public schools. I don't criticize that position at all. I believe that liberty can only be sustained in a society that embraces education--universal education.
Then I read in the New York Times this morning an article entitled "Sex Ed for the Stroller Set." This article notes "the resistance [to sex ed in the younger years] comes from parents who cannot imagine initiating a conversation about sex with children who cannot read a book or ride a bicycle, and haven't yet displayed any curiosity about the matter." The correct method of teaching (as espoused by this "Fashion & Style" columnist) is to start as soon as a child starts talking.
That made me think of Garrison Keeler, who might agree with me on this point, who frequently spoke of the loss of decency and civility in America. He said it was all the Republican's fault and I may agree with him to a certain degree, but wait a minute here.
What is decency? If you talk to your children about sex and sexual anatomy from their earliest childhood they will they be able to learn decency? If we make it a point to talk about something that is purposefully left silent in public (although if you were to watch prime-time TV lately you will see that the public is not so silent) then children will learn that sex is something that we should talk about in open public spaces instead of the private, intimate places and times. Why should I be surprised when the minister/bishop/priest comes over and my kid tells him that he has a big p----.
I remember being in middle school and a buddy started talking about a teacher of mine and calling her a prostitute. Of course I was “disadvantaged” by not having the necessary sex-ed prep to understand what that term meant so I just followed along. Then I asked my mom what the word meant, and I still didn’t quite understand. I don’t think that kid understood really what it meant either.
Kristen, Alyson and I had a good conversation on this topic when in Utah for G-Pa’s funeral. The conversation included what I was calling the sexualization of children by people who take the sexual welfare of children upon themselves. These people are primarily the liberal elites, the gay elites, the feminist elites, and other people who claim the classical liberal heritage, but who are merely shells of and namesakes of the truly great heritage of liberalism.
The common element of all of these people is this: they all had some type of victimizing incident in their life. They then turn this victim-status into a profession. Tammy Bruce (a self-proclaimed decent lesbian) called this type of victimization found in the gay and lesbian elite Malignant Narcissism. Robert Bork called it Radical Individualism. Basically it is an absence of decency. These Malignant Narcissist tell me that I am to accept their values of no values, and based on their privileged status as victims they are enlightened to teach me and my children the standard (of no standards) of social conduct. Promiscuity is natural and normal, furthermore, addiction and compulsion are not problems—their part of an “alternative lifestyle.”
I must go, but I could go on and on about this as well as where the true heritage classical liberalism lies. Here’s a hint: it isn’t in a feminism that supported the continuation of governments that prohibited the education of women and had institutionalized female objectification in the form of rape rooms, etc.
In sum. I wish to teach my own child in age-appropriate and decent ways. Perhaps he will suppress his inner sexuality in ways which the liberal elite may disagree, but I would hope that my children also suppress their other savage tendencies (like rage, anger, and other criminal conduct) in like manner.
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