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This Revolution did not just “happen.” It had a cause, as philosophy underlies politics. This book identifies that cause. As if sexual-relations are not practical enough, accompanying the Sexual Revolution is the collapse of our major institutions. This book has space to address only four: Marriage, Education, the Media, and Politics. As just one example in Marriage of this collapse, over fifty per-cent of marriages now end in divorce. In Education men are staying away from Academia in droves; and it is ninety-nine per-cent guaranteed that if you mortgage your home and send your son or daughter to about any college or university now, (with an exception, which I identify), you will receive back not an educated Person but a fully-programmed Liberal product. Finally, our churches are feminized, causing many men to stay away, and use of various gimmicks to try to lure them back. Why? This collapse has a cause, too. It is often remarked that the institutions of Hollywood, Academia, and the Media are militantly liberal. But why are they liberal? This books answers that question. It turns out that the Sexual Revolution is but the tip of the iceberg, and that the philosophy of Liberalism has led to the politics of the Age of the Woman. The surface politics, as important as they are, but reflect a profound philosophy under the surface that has been building and building, and which at last burst out into the open in the 1960’s. I am using apocalyptic language to describe this philosophy and its resulting politics. The reader will see the reason for such language by the time he finished the book. Long-term philosophy waits out short-term politics. Voters gave us the liberal Clinton Administration, which in turn expanded a liberal Supreme Court. It was that Court which radically expanded eminent domain. Outraged voters, mugged by reality, protected themselves against that ruling in the November 2006 elections with state constitutional amendments; at the same time, they contradictorily gave us back more liberals in the Senate. Eminent Domain will be back in some guise or other, as patient philosophy waits out politics. The collapse of the institution of Politics involves both domestic policy and the foreign policy involved in our membership in the U.N. What is the connection between the Sexual Revolution and Illegal Immigration in this Age of the Woman? And what about this Age of the Woman makes us almost defenseless against the violence and loveless-ness which characterize Islam? Ideas have had unexpected consequences. Identifying and fleshing out both the cause of the Sexual Revolution and the collapse of our institutions, or foundations, has involved some hard thinking. What is a Liberal? What is Truth – and its relation to truth? What is love? Why is the love-song now ubiquitous. Such questions had to be answered along the way. The hard thinking required in writing this book has revolutionized my thinking as author. The book will revolutionize yours’ as reader.
Jerry Sawyer
About The Author
Imagine l957 Bee Branch, Arkansas, population 53. The author was raised four miles from there. The environment included the dregs of the tail-end of western-civilization. It was a secure world, unreflective and complacent. Not only was same-sex marriage not even on anyone’s horizon yet, but even homosexuality was something that Big-City Yankees did. At the same time, it was a golden age, with Elvis and blue suede shoes. Now imagine l963 Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. After graduating from high-school at a young seventeen, fleeing Arkansas in his youthful arrogance as the dark hole of the universe, hitchhiking around the country for a couple years to see what was over the next hill, and then enlisting in the U.S. Navy for a four-year hitch, the author enrolled at San Francisco State University. Keep in mind a couple things: l) he was twenty-three by this time, not the typical totally malleable and docile eighteen-year old; and 2) this was not only the turbulent sixties, but SFSU is just across the Bay from the University of California at Berkeley, perhaps the very epicenter of the turbulence. Culture clash! The happy-go-lucky adventure quickly changed to a different kind of adventure: an intellectual adventure with high stakes. A clash between the mind-set of rural l950’s Arkansas and the heady, giddy atmosphere of Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco state of 1963. I had stumbled into a den of radicals, busy searching out and radically throwing off every vestige of the author’s somewhat complacent world-view. The author’s response? A pox on both your houses--he rejected both worlds! Both were stultifying and degenerate. The upshot is, however, that having experienced two worlds, he can now pick and choose. Academia turns out to have been the grain of sand that grew. From SFSU he went to the University of California at Santa Barbarba for the MA in English, where he encountered the Pearl of Great Price in a long Middle English poem of that name; and then he thought his way on to Washington State University for Ph.D. studies. After that he taught English on the college level, moved to Florida and sold real-estate; and then spent the last four years putting down on paper this book he has been mentally writing for thirty years. The author referred to his youthful arrogance. He smiles as he says that the arrogance has not departed, but only matured: he sorrows for any person who fails to read this book!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION I: LIBERALISM FOREWORD Priorities: *Enjoyable Read over Technicality*Logic over Political Correctness
INTRODUCTION 1
*Science versus Ideology * Cause of problem: the Academy and Naturalism * Why this Book has not been written already * Philosophy versus Politics
1. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH GOOD OL BOYS LIKE ME?
*Definition of “Truth vs. truth” * The Individual versus the Group *Naked Emperor and this Book *Academia and “Diversity”
LIBERAL VERSUS CONSERVATIVE 1
*What is a Liberal? *What is a Conservative?
HOW WE GOT HERE
*Liberal origins in Sophism *The Big three *Augustine and Western Civilization *Aquinas and the Long Slide, through Descartes, Locke, and Hume to Kant *KANT and Sophism “torqued”: on through Hegel, Marx, and the Existentialism *Philosophy and Darwin merged *And that is the PRIMARY CAUSE OF LIBERALISM: it is all over except for the shouting
SECTION II THE AGE OF THE WOMAN
THE IDEA HAVING ITS WAY and THE AGE OF THE WOMAN
*Early warnings * “Age of the Woman” – defined *Masculine versus Feminine Principles *Hollywood and the Feminine Principle
MARRIAGE *What is marriage? *Marriage and the Two World Views *College and Marriage * Marriage a Fool’s Errand in a Liberal Society?
EDUCATION
*Education and Truth *Education and Indoctrination *Education and War *Education and Business
MEDIA 1
*Mossy-Backs as Products *Meaning of “Media” *Liberal world-view and two Media *Media bias and Polls 8 POLITICS
The “Age” and DOMESTIC politics *Abortion * Immigration * Credit-Cards *Eminent Domain The “Age” and FOREIGN policy *The U.N. -Latin America and Lilliput -Islamic countries, Lilliput, and four questions
CONCLUSION * Summary of the Past *Predicting the Future: two kinds of fortune-tellers - the zodiac and the gyspsy, or -Logan’s Run and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
SECTION III
AFTERWORD; or What Can I DO? *Enlist in the culture War *Realize that the War is Total *Keep the enemy clearly identified *Crash-course in Literary-composition
FOREWORD
I. REWARDING AND ENJOYABLE READING A PRIORITY
AT THE OUTSET I will say here, for the benefit of the reader who fears that we are about to become hopelessly technical, I myself am a hopelessly non-technical person (which is one reason I chose to major in English). Even light technicality is like ice on the bridge of an otherwise clear road: it makes me apprehensive. Accordingly, I reluctantly countenance technicality on a very temporary basis.
Granted, the subject matter here, in a few brief spots,is inherently technical. In the few instances where that is unavoidably so, despite my fervent wishes to the contrary, my own temperament wishes it to clear up and go away! My own temperament is with you! So, if the reader will bear with me during that very occasional moment of discomfort, knowing that I have re-written and re-written to make this reader-friendly, and that my own will and wish is for it to go away soon, for this to be an enjoyable read, then he or she will be amply rewarded in the end.
The few technically-sounding terms, like “the masculine principle” versus “the feminine principle” and “Propositional Truth” versus “Intuitive Truth” will become as comfortable and familiar to him or her (not “them”!) as is his or her mom or cat!
II. LOGIC OVER POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ANOTHER PRIOITY
Also here at the outset, I have had to make a decision right off: when logic and political correctness conflict, which takes priority? I have decided to go with logic. The title of the book is Liberalism and the Age of the Woman. Grammar is influenced by that title. For example, the first sentence of the Bible says that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” If God is a man, the gold-standard of reality is masculine, and therefore the generic pronoun is “he.” If God is a woman, it is “she,” and if one is not sure, it is “they.” Since God is a man, I will use “He,” even though it has become politically incorrect in this Age of the Woman to do that. An example might have occurred in the last sentence of the last paragraph, except I wanted to warn you what I am about, before I begin the practice. To use “they” or “them” even when the antecedent is singular is, of course, ungrammatical because illogical.
The reader will come to see that there is a world-view just under the surface of even grammar usage! The question of whether God is male or female has enormous implications, as the reader will see, even down to his (or her!) use of pronouns. While I know that the person who advocates the expected and usual is often unthinkingly accepted more easily than is the person who does not automatically run with the herd, both logic and the very thesis of this book dictate that I resort to the usage of the generic “he.”
Logic also trumps political correctness in my choice of diction, as it does with pronoun usage, as I decline to allow a Liberal world-view to direct my mind via the language I use. The English poet William Blake spoke of “mind-forged manacles.” An example is the illogical and clumsy term “African-Americans.” Many have never been within a thousand miles of Africa, but we use this illogical term in order to be politically correct. Liberals seem to have inflicted this clumsy term on us in order ostentatiously to avoid any hint of racism, perhaps giving their own mind-set away. “Affirmative Action,” a pet Liberal cause, seems to imply the racist assumption that the two races cannot compete on a level playing field. Accordingly, I decline to distinguish between Irish-Americans, Russian-Americans, African-Americans– Americans are …Americans! When a distinction must be made, I prefer the simple, non-politicized “blacks” and “whites.”
Another example of a politically correct term, this time with an unarguably definite world-view behind it, is the word “gay.” A simple choice of words asks our minds to accept what a rival world-view condemns. The Liberal world-view holds that words should be value-neutral, as there are no values inherent in reality. Yet, the word “gay” gives away the store in implying value. My dictionary defines the word as “Showing or characterized by exuberance or mirthful excitement.” Image an antonym such as “grim,” defined as “Uninviting or unnerving in aspect; forbidding; terrible.” Would so-called “gays” care to be called “grims”? I doubt it. So, is “gay” a term that expresses values? You bet! So seriously so, that it may be why the word “gay” is flagged as a slang word. When I want to communicate values, I will use words that communicate my world-view, which contains inherent values. I decline to be intimidated by words that sneak in values and an alien mind-set through the back door of politically correct diction.
With that said, I will tell you in the Introduction what I plan to say and accomplish in this book.
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