After many hours of thinking and reading the news and watching the world around me, I have decided that Islam is a sick culture. Now, don’t get me wrong, not all of it is sick, but many places of it are.<\/p>\n
I took these quotes from one of my favorite Heinlein novels, Friday. They are all from a conversation between the main character and her “Boss.” That conversation began whith Friday’s Boss asking her, “What are the marks of a sick culture?”<\/p>\n
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”<\/p>\n
“A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.”<\/p>\n
“Before a revolution can take place, the population must loose faith in both the police and the courts.”<\/p>\n
“… High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way – even though there are always endless attempts to wish it way by legislation. But I started looking for little signs and what some call silly-season symptoms.”<\/p>\n
“I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course – but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking way at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial – but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.”<\/p>\n
“I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named . . . But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.”<\/p>\n
“This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his\/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture – this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.”<\/p>\n
Here is a brief “Laundry List” of the Top Ten symptoms to look for in your own life that may be indicators that we live in a Sick Culture:<\/p>\n
o Particularism – Identifying one’s self with a particular group, religion, race or language, rather than with the whole population.<\/p>\n
o Dominance of males over females.<\/p>\n
o Loss of faith in the Courts and Police.<\/p>\n
o High taxation.<\/p>\n
o Inflation of currency.<\/p>\n
o Violence – eg. muggings, sniping, arson, bombing or terrorism of any sort.<\/p>\n
o Riots of course.<\/p>\n
o Conscription, slavery, arbitrary compulsion and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial.<\/p>\n
o Personal rudeness.<\/p>\n
… and the number one symptom that we’re living in a Sick Culture is –<\/p>\n
o Bad manners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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