America Needs to be Less Tolerant and More Judgmental

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[Subscribe here]() for more [America Needs to be Less Tolerant and More Judgmental]( Living in a moral Idiocracy [John Hawkins]( Mar 26   [READ IN APP](   If I were to make a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time (Mental note to self: Make a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time), Idiocracy would certainly be on it. Not only was it funny and well done, but the movie also increasingly feels prophetic. The film is about a completely average guy named Joe who gets frozen in a cryogenic chamber for 500 years. When he wakes up, he finds that the human race has gotten extremely stupid and he’s now the smartest guy in the world: If you’re Generation X or older whose values haven’t undergone a radical shift over the last fifteen years, this movie may feel like a lived experience for you. Maybe not so much intellectually, but morally? Absolutely. Morally, we now live in a disgusting, degenerate society where tens of millions of children have been murdered via abortion. Kids are being read to by drag queens, gay porn is being shown to kids in school, and open theft, like shoplifting or squatting is considered perfectly acceptable in many places. Sex work is considered to be just another profession by a large percentage of our population. There is so much lying in the media, from scientists and the government, that most people have no idea who to trust. Many of our celebrities and influencers are disgusting, morality-free degenerates who’d probably advocate pedophilia or cannibalism if they thought it would get them more money and followers. Our politicians lie constantly, undermine the country, and deliberately try to turn the American people against each other. It’s not a pretty picture. Do we have the least moral society of all time? No, but you have to think we’re now historically in that bottom quarter of nations. We may not be as bad as the worst of the Roman Empire, the current Palestinian territories, the Aztecs, the Mongols under Genghis Khan, the Taliban, or the Nazis, but we’re also a society that absolutely no one should be trying to copy morally. Now, your first impulse may be to take offense at that. Twenty years ago, I probably would have, too. However, we are not that society anymore. We have gone way downhill in a hurry. You don’t think so? Well, let’s just look at a couple of modern points of comparison. In some of the Nordic countries, it’s so safe that people LEAVE THEIR BABIES OUTSIDE while they go in to eat: This is what [crime is like in Singapore]( In 2016, the island nation’s police reported 135 total days without any crimes including snatch-theft, house break-ins, and robbery. That low crime rate means many small businesses enjoy little concern about shoplifting. In fact, as CNBC recently observed, many local businesses take few precautions when closing shop at night. For instance, in the ground floor lobby of a mixed-use building in the downtown business district, many shops don’t have windows, locks — or even doors. A Starbucks located in Raffles Place, one of Singapore’s busiest underground train stations has no formal doors. Rather, a small rope indicates when the store is closed, and merchandise is all still displayed and within an arm’s length of commuters. How do we stack up morally to places like that? Better yet, how do we stack up to what America USED TO BE? In some ways? Better. In most ways, worse. [Much, much worse]( "If filmmakers in 1963 wanted the approval of the Production Code of Motion Picture Association of America, which almost all of them still did, the dialogue could not include any profanity stronger than hell or damn, and there had been dramatic justification even for them. Characters couldn’t take the name of the Lord in vain, or ridicule religion, or use any form of obscenity — meaning just about anything related to the sex act… the plot couldn’t present sex outside of marriage as attractive or justified. Homosexuality was to be presented as a perversion. Abortion? 'The subject of abortion shall be discouraged, shall never be more than suggested, and when referred to shall be condemned,' said the code." "In the 1963 Current Population Survey, a divorced person headed just 3.5 percent of American households, with another 1.6 percent headed by a separated person. " "To get a sense of how different attitudes were in the 1960s, perhaps this will do it. These ever-married women were asked, 'In your opinion, do you think it is all right for a woman to have sexual relations before marriage with a man she knows she is going to marry?' …Eighty-six percent said no." I’m not the only one saying this either. You [can see it in the polling data]( Why is it getting worse? Well, there are a lot of answers to that. Christianity is [in decline in America](. We’ve also embraced tolerance and non-judgmentalism as a society to such an extent that we’ve turned both things from virtues into vices. At this point, America would probably benefit from being ten times more judgmental and intolerant because that’s about what it would take to balance the scales in a society where there’s controversy over firing a teacher who raps in her spare time under the name “[Drippin Honey]( and we’re [literally sending men to women’s prison]( because they want to go there, say they’re women and we don’t want to hurt their feelings by telling them that they’re not. Also, there is what would seem to be an unrelated tweet from Zuby that reminded me of a phenomenon that used to happen in the pre-social media days. It ties in perfectly to what’s happening today: This will be shocking to many Generation Z kids, but fifteen years ago, many active forums and comment sections had regular crowds of fairly intelligent, seemingly well-meaning, and well-adjusted people looking to make friends and have actual discussions. Believe it or not, discussing issues back then was often friendly, pleasant, and even a little intellectually stimulating. I know, I know, it sounds fantastical, like claiming that there really were cavemen named the Flintstones that had pet dinosaurs and ran to their jobs at the gravel quarry in cars made of stone and animal skins. Back then, trolls and bad actors weren’t all that common and when they did show up, the standard advice was to, “ignore the troll” and wait for the person monitoring the comment section or forum to ban them. Often this worked, but it was very interesting to see what happened when it didn’t. The troll would be deliberately obnoxious, try to piss people off, and if people did respond to him, suddenly all these well-meaning, fairly polite, intelligent people would start sounding like trolls themselves. They’d be busting out profanity, acting threatening, saying all kinds of obnoxious things. That happens because most people sink or rise to the level of the environment that they’re in. That’s why famous quotations like, “Birds of a feather flock together” and “You are the average of the five people you hang around most” are a thing. So, what happens when immoral people come on the scene and they don’t get challenged, or worse yet, everyone sees them get REWARDED for their bad behavior? Some people copy that bad behavior and the more of them there are, the more other people go along with it. Eventually, it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. It becomes, “That’s just how it is these days” or “Everybody else does it, so why shouldn’t I?” Believe it or not, moral courage is even rarer than physical courage and most people just want to be popular. We certainly don’t know who the most popular person in Sodom and Gomorrah actually was, but we can be pretty sure it wasn’t Lot, who was the good guy hero of the Bible story about the destruction of those two cities. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being popular per se, but how popular would you want to be in Sodom and Gomorrah? When everyone is doing the wrong thing, what the world desperately needs is more people speaking on behalf of the right thing, even if it’s not the popular thing. We’re not just talking about the big things either. If you’ve ever seen Joey Swoll’s videos, they’re incredibly healthy because he’s a jacked, popular guy who makes a point of policing bad behavior in gyms. Gym culture tends to be very healthy overall and people like Joey Swoll help keep it that way: [joeyswoll]( A post shared by [@joeyswoll]( That’s what our culture needs, not just in gyms, but EVERYWHERE. Creating a more moral culture requires standing up and speaking out against bad behavior. As the most famous Bible verse about judgment and hypocrisy tells us, the world doesn’t just need us to condemn bad behavior by unpopular people or people “on the other side,” but bad behavior wherever we see it, even if it’s in ourselves: People, usually with guilty consciences, often like to pretend that this Bible verse is telling us not to make moral judgments. That is incorrect. On the contrary, this verse is telling us that we need to be good and moral ourselves, so we’ll have the ability to step up and tell other people what they’re doing is wrong. You don’t have to never have fallen short. You don’t have to be perfect (which is good since none of us are), but you do at least need to make a good-faith effort to do the right thing, so you’ll have the credibility to call out bad actors – and we need that desperately in this country. We need to reward people for doing the right thing, instead of behaving badly. We need more people speaking up for the truth and refusing to accept lies. For a degenerate society to become healthy again, it needs more people to go against the grain. It needs intolerance of bad behavior, and it needs good people to look down on people doing the wrong thing. America needs to add tens of millions of people like that. Be one of them.   --------------------------------------------------------------- [Upgrade to paid]( [Share]( [Leave a comment]( [101 Things All Young Adults Should Know]( You're currently a free subscriber to [Culturcidal by John Hawkins](. 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