To me "civilisation" means "Western culture/ civilisation". For example,, the countries of the Anglosphere, like: America; England; Australia; New Zealand, are still civilised nations.
I fully agree with you that (Western) civilisation in under ferocious attack. For instance, there are many White Americans who are modern-era Marxists working to destroy America, as we have known it (that is, America, the liberal, democratic constitutional republic).
Why do people want to destroy, America? Why do people want to destroy America's Western culture and heritage? Why do they want to destroy a culture that not only enriched American society in just about every imaginable way since the inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States, with: ever higher productivity, ever higher levels of comfort for the average American family, the ever increased efficiency and convenience that accompanied a continuous stream of "mod-cons" and other technological innovations and achievements, a robust capitalist economy, (which while it is not perfect, is
light years ahead of
ANY alternative); a new, inspired, system of government that worked perfectly well for hundreds of years from around 1790. I am referring to the "US Constitution/Bill of Rights" as a truly exceptional document - the Constitution speaks to the brilliance of those 55 Founders who laboured to frame it in the late 18th century. Why trash the Constitution ? There's no good reason that I can see ! The Constitution will always "work like a charm",
PROVIDED the people it governs are " a moral and religious" people. I am quoting the great Founder Father and former American President, John Adams, here. In an address he gave on the 11th October, 1798", Adams famously remarked that...
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
(
NB: In late 18th-century America, the Founder Fathers and their peers had a custom of using the word,
"religious" as a synonym for
"Christian" in their writings. If you look through some of the Founders important/famous documents and papers, you will note that they
very rarely use the terms: "Christian" or "Christianity." So when John Adams refers to "a moral and religious people", he was pretty much taking about the Church-going people of his day who lived in the new republic. These people were almost all Christians (largely Protestants), and would have been taught the main precepts of Judeo-Christian morality from childhood.
The way I interpret John Adams quotation (above) is that the Constitution
will not be able to successfully govern an America republic where large portions of the country's population, or indeed, the majority of the population are
savages - as opposed to civilised, moral, Christian people. By "savages" I mean, for example, people whose behaviour is such that it frequently and continually violates the basic precepts/teachings of Judeo-Christian morality: for instance, the intentional murder of individuals by cannibals who then eat the corpses; or the murderous behaviour of those primitive tribes of "Head-Hunters" who still exist today on the Papuan island of Borneo; the ritual sacrifice of living human beings/sentient animals to graven Idols; the officially sanctioned use of cruel/brutal forms of torture; the use of barbaric punishments for breaches of the law in savage societies, for example, in Islamic states like Iran, where the amputation (with a knife/blade and without anaesthetic) of (even) children's hands for the crime of theft (including petty theft) is routine.
What also distinguishes a "savages" is their astonishing lack of any visible, or otherwise perceptible,
rational, moral conscience among those involved in these kind of barbarous and horrific activities. Human life, in itself, seems to have little value for the "savage." In savage societies acts of rape/sexual assault/incest become "normalised", examples here would be numerous Sub-saharan African countries and muslim majority, Middle - Eastern states like Syria or Yemen. The practice of slavery, or the extreme exploitation of of individuals for labour; women forced to live solely as objects for the sexual gratification of men, for example: concubines/prostitutes/child-brides or women purchased as wives for polygamous "marriages" in also prevalent in Africa and the Middle East. As is the customary toleration of frequent and ongoing domestic violence suffered by women/children (wives/partners) at the hands of men in their marriages/relationships.
The various examples above of savage behaviours all flagrantly violate the foundational precepts of Judeo - Christian morality. I regard these type of behaviours as morally
WRONG. "WRONG" means ought (
or MUST) not be done. Doing what is morally WRONG is also
BAD/EVIL . (And) Christianity teaches that if your behaviour is BAD, you will be held accountable for it - one way or another - and the punishment you receive for acting BADLY will be "no laughing matter" I think that the precepts of Christian morality (Thou shalt not kill; Thought shalt keep promises made to others;' Thou shalt not thieve; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt love thy brother as thyself, etc) along with all of the many Christian moral principles in the Gospels like: Charity, forgiveness, tolerance, temperance, forbearance and so on, are
UNIVERSAL moral standards that ought be IMPOSED across the globe to foster the growth of civilised behaviour and civilised societies. Why? Because they WORK; that's why ! At least they certainly work better than
ANY OTHER system of morality that has been imposed on men since human civilisation first emerged 6000 years ago. For instance, I think you would find living under the moral diktats of: the ancient Egyptians; Hitler and the NAZIS; Pol Pot and his "Khmer Rouge"; Chairman Mao; Josef Stalin; Fidel Castro; Hugo Chavez/ Nicolas Maduro, President Xi of communist China or the current Ayatollah Komeini, would not be a "barrel full of laughs."
From a rational and logical point of view I cannot fault Christian morality. I mean, what it says is the
morally right way to behave
IS a
GOOD way to behave; and not just for you, but for everyone around you. But what is the definition of (the) "GOOD"? Western moral philosophers have been "wetting their panties" for decades out of sheer frustration at being unable to to explain what "GOOD" means. To me, it's easy; "GOOD" means experiencing the
OPPOSITE of what is: painful; miserable; suffering; enervation; experiencing negative emotions (like dysphoria, disgust, depression, sorrow, guilt, remorse, hatred, spite, resentment, despair etc) nihilistic/nihilism, corruption, degenerate, sordid, profligate, and so on.
What is
GOOD is that which is: healthy, thriving/flourishing, lively, productive; associated with
POSITIVE emotions like: ( joy, peacefulness, cheerfulness, happiness, satisfaction/contentment, compassion, good will, congeniality). GOOD is that which does no harm to any other
conscious being: human or otherwise (i.e. birds, reptiles, other mammals, amphibians). GOOD is that which offers assistance/help to another conscious beings in need. GOOD is that which uplifts the spirit and, for instance, inspires the creation of (objective) Beauty; (
and whatever is experienced as BEAUTIFUL is GOOD). To behold, say, the beautiful bloom of the English, blush rose is GOOD; encountering a baby Koala Bear, or the beautiful, multicoloured, Peacock, or watching a magnificent, Arabian stallion on the gallop, is also GOOD . Equally, to be in the presence of a truly beautiful woman like, Bridget Bardot or Sophia Loren, is GOOD. To hear - in a large, medieval stone Cathedral - the majestic fugues of Mozart, Beethoven or Wagner, performed live by an orchestra is GOOD; and to read the most beautiful passages in Percy Shelley's lyric poetry is also very GOOD.
The best chance that we human beings have to feel and be GOOD, and to build families, communities and societies that are (morally) GOOD is to always strive to behave in ways that are morally
RIGHT; that is, in the way that is set down in Biblical morality, whether it be the 10 Commandments of the Old Testament, or the key moral lessons that Jesus taught in the Gospels. It is extremely difficult, (impossible, actually), for any man to behave himself in a perfectly moral (righteous) way, all of the time. Rather, the point of the exercise is to constantly
strive to do your very best in trying to behave according to the moral precepts of Christianity, and where you fail to meet the standard/, LEARN from the experience, and endeavour to do better in the future. Because,
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE
One thing that bewilders me is the fact that in order to be able to read the Bible, or in order to be able to understand what the Bible is saying when different sections of it are explained to you in, say, Church, by a Preacher,
requires some minimal level of intelligence. In fact, there are many passages in the Bible that are extremely difficult to understand, and/ or very easy to misinterpret, even for a men/woman of above average intelligence). What I am trying to say is that in order to have the depth of insight into Christian moral teachings in the Scripture that will allow you to (rationally/logically) confirm them as the
TRUTH, and thus be convinced that you must
genuinely commit yourself to trying (
as best you can) to live your life within the moral boundaries dictated by God. (in the Bible and through the Natural (moral) Law) This ,HOWEVER, will demand the possession of a minimal amount of intelligence - that is, a minimal capacity for sound reasoning. So how much general intelligence (IQ), exactly, would this be ? Well, if we at the Anglo-sphere nations in , say, the 1950s, we note that they
WERE ALL PRETTY MUCH CIVILISED PLACES - CIVILISED SOCIETIES, RIGHT?. Also, with rare exception, the citizens of these Anglosphere nations were certainly not "SAVAGES (and also there were no large districts or regions of major cities, in the US, for example, that were genuine 'shit-holes" like in San Francisco, LA, Baltimore, or Detroit. RIGHT? Well, interestingly, the average national IQ of all these Anglosphere (White Northwest European) countries was known to be about 100 points. These Western, Anglosphere countries were also, interestingly, typically referred to - or understood to be -
CHRISTIAN NATIONS in the 1950s. And throughout the the 1950, church-going on Sundays was indeed a common practice.
INTELLIGENCE, MORALITY AND SAVAGERY
I believe that if all of people in all of the different nations of the world were given a rigorous Christian upbringing and education, and came to respect and personally embracy Christian morality, planet Earth would be a much, much happier place than it is today. But I don't think there is any likelihood of this happening in the foreseeable future. Why? Because it i is crystal clear that there are some races/ethnic groups of human being on the planet today, who simply do not possess the basic general intelligence (IQ or "g-factor") to UNDERSTAND and then meaningfully adopt and consistently practice the precepts of Judeo-Christian morality. South Africa is one example. In South Africa today, 80.2% of the population are Black (Negro) and the average national IQ is 68 points. In Western psychiatry, IQ (general intelligence), scores are used to mark the thresholds of different degrees of mental retardation: MILD, MODERATE, PRONOUNCED and PROFOUND. If you have a professionally-measured IQ score of 70 points or below, you will receive an official diagnosis of mental deficiency (the current PC diagnosis is "IDD' - Intellectual Deficiency Disorder") but to put it bluntly, you are, officially-speaking, a clinical
"RETARD".
IQ (GENERAL INTELLIGENCE) AND DEGREE OF MENRAL RETARDATION
70 - 50 POINTS.....
MILD MENTAL RETARDATION
50 - 25 POINTS.....
PRONOUNCED MENTAL RETARDATION
BELOW 25 POINTS.
PROFOUND MENTAL RETARDATION]
If you have an IQ below 70 points, what it means is that you
cannot function as an autonomous, self-controlled, self-responsible, self-reliant, self-determining individual in an advanced, Western society like America or or say any of the other Anglosphere or North-Western European nations. If you have an IQ of 70 points or below you will require the constant supervision, support and guidance of others (who have at least average intelligence) in order to live in the West in a civilised manner. Without this supervision/guidance/support you will either end up: seriously harmed/injured/dead; in serious trouble with the authorities (e.g law-enforcement/police, CJS) or incarcerated at a relatively young age.
Blacks in South Africa today have an average IQ (general intelligence) of 68 points. They currently make up 80.2% of a democratically governed republic. When the White minority
Apartheid government was ousted in 1994 by Nelson Mandela's ANC party in the general election that year, there was never any way on God's green Earth that the Black majority was going to be able to maintain the kind of advanced, civilised, Western institutions (governmental central, provincial, local), political system, Justice System; economic, educational (schools/universities), law enforcement, financial and infrastructure (national power grid, state transportation (rail, road), public housing, potable water supply, public hospitals, sanitation systems etc; that the minority White Afrikaner government had successfully developed over the decades before 1994. They simply did not have the intelligence necessary to govern themselves in an orderly, efficient, civilised manner. In fact, no where f**king near it! So what happened? Well, exactly what you expect would happen when a White Western minority government is suddenly turfed out and replaced with a democratic republic where 80.2% of the nation have an average IQ of 68. What happened was that from 1994 the Democratic Republic of South Africa began an inevitably steady, descent into CHAOS - into lawless savagery, bloody mayhem, misery and suffering.
In the late 19th century, quite a number of English psychiatrists (or alienists as they were then know) worked in what was called the field of "Mental Deficiency" It was a popular specialism at the time. In the later deccedesof the 19th century, Victorian psychiatrists graded patients with "mental deficiency into one three categories: (1) FEEBLE-MINDED (or, in America) MORON
(THIS MEANT "MILD" MENTAL RETARDATION); IMBECILE
(THIS MEANT "PRONOUNCED" MENTAL RETARDATION) and (3) IDIOT
AN "IDIOT" HAS "PROFOUND" MENTAL RETARDATION. One notable English psychiatrist who specialised in "mental deficiency."
(A) FEEBLEMINDEDNESS
To give you some idea.... Suppose, you are in the US and the year is 1927. You family doctor makes you sit a professionally - administered IQ test and you end up scoring an IQ score of 68. This would mean that you are given the diagnosis: "FEEBLEMINDED" or "MORON"; probably "MORON" because American physicians for some reason preferred to use it, as opposed to FEEBLEMINDED, which was an English medical term at the time. The main point is that FEEBLEMINDED and MORON both refer to the same category of retardation, namely "MILD" OK, so you have an IQ of 68, what does that mean? It means that you are DUMB - abnormally DUMB. You cannot learn for books, you cannot REASON (for example solve, problems in your mind, at school you would be the "dunce" of the class; if you were a young adult, you would be mentally like a "Slacked Jawed Hillbilly", only you would be a kind of quiet, passive version of the real thing. You are able to speak and hear and respond to directions that are given to you - and other people ,like strangers, you meet and maybe chat to for relatively short periods of time may not notice there anything wrong with you. Despite this, you are HIGHLY likely to get yourself into serious trouble because you have very little (mental) self-control. So what you want or desire you just take - because you simply cannot resist the temptation, and you do not have the brains to take into account the possible consequences. This is why many of the prisons in late Victorian England held lots of men and women had inordinate numbers of "MORONS" (or "FEEBLEMINDED") persons in them Many were in prison for theft, like shoplifting. A young feeble-minded woman might see an expensive pearl necklace on display in a swanky London Jewellers and simplly swipe it. Because she is so DUMB, she is easily caught and ends up in Court where the Beak hands down a hefty, custodial sentence. Asa "MORON" you lack of self -control (orinability to control impulsive beave), will naturally be most pronounced with respect to the strong URGE of them all -
libido - the SEX DRIVE. If you are a female "MORON" in, say your later teens or 20s, like all girls you will experience sexual arousal and sexual desire. Remember. we are imagining this is America in 1927.Right? OK, so when this girl/young woman is out at a bar at night and notices a good-looking male she basically thinks: "Right, I gonna have myself a big piece of that right now." She let's the male she likes know know that she's up for a fuck, and men-being-men, 15 minutes later she's copping a length. Eventually this girl gets a reputation for PROMISCUITY, and women who did a lot of fucking around in America in 1927 were regarded as immoral - and it was actually a very big deal, esp, since a lot of White Americans back then were staunch Protestant and rather puritanical. This loose dexual behaviour among "FEEBLEMINDED" women also created problems with unwanted pregnancies, STDs like Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. Once again, they could not (
i.e. were literally unable to) take into account the issues of pregnancy or STDs because they were unable to mentally deliberate on the question of any long-term consequences (or risks). Basically they felt like they wanted to be fucked, and that meant fucked NOW or ASAP. The sexual promiscuity or FEEBLEMINDED women also resulted in many of them becoming professional prostitutes. As prostitution was illegal in America at the time, these girls would inevitably come into contact with the policc/law and could easily find themselves in prison as they may be let off with a warning a certain number of times, but because they could not help thems or obtain an income any other way, many would wear out the good will of the justice system an find themselves doing time in stir. As for men who were FEEBLEMINDED ("MORONS") their lack of ability for self-control (impulse inhibition) resulted in the rapes, incest and other forms sexual assaults against women they encountered. Finally, a FEEBLEMINDED ("MORONIC" husband it would also be likely to regularly perpetrate domestic violence on his wife and children.
(2) IMBECILES AND IDIOTS
Once again using America in the 1920s to explain (because the terms" "FFEBLEMINDED/MORON, IMBECILE and IDIOT are no longer "PC" in the profession of psychiatry - to say the least !)
An
IMBECILE had a measured IQ somewhere around 50 points, on average. Now, y'all know what a Down's Syndrome person is like in term of intelligence? Right? Well, the average IQ for a Down Syndrome person is about 50 points. So, in the USA 1927, they would be diagnosed as imbeciles. Moreover they would most probably have been institutionalised in a "Lunatic Asylum."
An
IDIOT has an IQ of below 25 points. An
IDIOT is basically a "vegetable" (like Joe Biden !) that cannot speak or communicate meaningfully with other human beings and are usually not ambulatory at all.. If ever you have been out shopping at K-MART, or wherever' and seen a woman pushing a chair in which there is a younger person (typically her son or daughter) seated and that person is rolling their head (which is somewhat deformed) and eyes around in a weird manner; dribbling up a storm and making grunting/squealing/gibberish type sounds. So you see this poor person in the chair, and you can't help but check them out for for a short time. Then you think: "FAAAAARK- WTF WAS
THAT !!??....""POOR BASTARD." Finally, IDIOTS shit themselves and piss in their pants all the time- like an infant - and also like infants, they have to wear diapers. (Particularly low-functioning IDIOTS also likely to eat their own shit if not properly supervised/prevented.)
Briefly, I should define what I mean by a "civilised society." in a down-to-Earth manner. So, a civilised society is the kind of society where you don't fart (loudly) in church on Sunday during the Pastor's sermon, and if you do, you immediately say:
"Goodness me ! I do beg your pardon, people- I think the brussels sprouts I had for lunch are repeating on me !" A civilised society is the kind of society where people blow their noses into handkerchiefs, and wipe their bottoms thoroughly with good quality toilet paper -
and not their fingers ! - after passing a stool in the lavatory In a civilised society heterosexual couples do not practice anal sex. Also, a civilised society the type of place where gentlemen do not signal their romantic interest in a young lady by whipping out their peenie/scrotum in public and jiggling them about in front of her. I call this: "doing an LBJ", because former President, Lyndon Johnson, did this very same thing in 1968 (I think it was) directly in front of a young, female journalist on the steps of the Capitol. Exposing his penis and scrotum in public and then clenching the ensemble (at the base) with his hand and wriggling them about, shouting
" There !That's what I'm gonna do !", was how LBJ respondsed to a difficult question, the young woman had asked him about his current plans for fighting the war in Vietnam (
BTW:if you don't believe this, google it for yourself -
it happened !).
Another example of the direct link between average intelligence and immoral, uncivilised savage/"animalistic" behaviour can be seen in the long history of Palestinian (Arab/Islamic) terrorist organisations attacking civilian targets in Israel. Terrorism is defined as the illegitimate use of force or intimidation against civilians for the purpose of achieving political aims. Terrorism is the favoured strategy of the Palestinian Arabs/Islamists in their campaign to destroy Israel. There are literally dozens of different anti-Israel, Palestinian Arab terrorist groups that have actively attacked Israel over the past decades. Some examples are: HAMAS; PALESTINE ISLAMIC JIHAD; the POPULAR RESISTANCE COMMITTEE (PRC); the PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION (PLO), and the PALESTINIAN LIBERATION FRONT (PLF). Last Saturday, HAMAS slaughtered over 1000 civilians - infants, children, adults and elderly Israeli civilians in an unspeakable orgy of violence. Their behaviour was so atrocious that they have been described in the Western media not as savages, but as "animals." I was not surprised to note that a published research paper which measured the IQs of a large number of Palestinian Arabs living in GAZA and the WEST BANK calculated that the group had an average IQ of 67.9. That a low average IQ similar to the average Black IQ in South Africa. So it seems to me where you have a nation with a low average IQ, like South Africa or a large group of people with a low IQ, like the Palestinian Arabs, there will be a strong tendency to immoral and therefore uncivilised behaviours. Given there is no medical or other means to elevate human IQ levels (IQ is 80% genetically determined), the only means of minimising the damge such people inflict upon themselves and others would be to impose some form of firm but fair paternalist Western government - a defanged, benign
Apartheid, if you like.
Thank you for your time.

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