Ending the postmodern crime against humanity

POSTMODERN CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

Postmodernism proclaims the death of grand narratives, teaches that objective truth does not exist, proclaims that everything is relative and subjective and therefore permissible and the spiritual food of the ages of “do as you ought” is being replaced by “do as you will” with the only moral imperative being don't get caught!

In the process, it has undermined the socialization process of positive behaviour that has underpinned human societies and civilizations since the earliest of times.

This socialization process is often couched in religious terms, explored in myths, simple stories and allegories that not only explain the process in ways beyond mere words, but also facilitate the successful transmission of the core principles from one generation to the next.

Ideas like heaven and hell, sin and virtue, morality and ethics, stories of heroism and sacrifice are all employed with the goal of buttressing the socialization process that builds just and fair societies.

The Australian indigenous community knows only too well that relying on the law does not work and the broader community is learning the same lesson as court rooms are clogged, jails are over-filled and recidivist crime is on the rise.

Violence against women is, quite rightly, a soul-crushingly sad topic. The suffering of millions of women can be attributed directly to the colonization of humanity by the postmodernism.

How?

Instead of creating a society of socially mature adults, postmodernist ideas are creating a society of adults with the social maturity of toddlers. These adult toddlers are wreaking havoc in all areas of society. They don't listen, they don't care, they don't understand and, when in positions of power and influence, wreak havoc, chaos and misery far and wide, even globally.

The ideas of postmodernism are at the core of the growing pessimism as hope in the future fades and uncertainty, fear and despair grows. What is increasingly emerging is a form of nihilism that lashes out in violence against the self through addiction, self-harm and suicide and against others through abuse, terror and war.

This is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

THE FAILURE OF POLITICS

Instead of recognizing and dealing with the cause, politicians of all flavours are either ramming through an endless stream of legislation in trying to address the symptoms, or throwing good money after bad just to be seen to be doing something.

This is a forlon hope that is inevitably failing for the simple reason that trying to improve human behaviour through legislation and regulation only results in the concentration of power and the rise of Big Brother government.

History shows, over and over, that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This leads to the breakdown of trust requiring increasing levels of force to maintain civil society until tyranny emerges and darkness descends.

This is where the unwitting supporters of postmodernism have led us.

We've been here before led by the same blind idealism. In Germany they were called the Brown Shirts, in Russia they were the Pioneers, in China they were the Red Guards, in Cambodia they were the Khmer Rouge and in the modern world they call themselves the Woke.

The result is always the same. The death of millions and the suffering of millions more as societies collapse on mountains of bones.

It is time to end this madness, before it is too late, by:

• reintroducing the idea of moral living to a generation steeped in postmodern relativity,
• restoring the socialization process based on traditional values, enshrined in our religions and universally shared,
• reaffirming democracy and the hard-won freedoms upon which it rests, and by
• restoring hope in the future through a common vision.

The Freedom Declaration for Peace, as a common vision, provides the basis for ensuring that the next major leap forward in human progress better serves the common good, not just the interests of the few.

THE FREEDOM DECLARATION FOR PEACE

The Freedom Declaration for Peace is a complete renunciation and denunciation of postmodernism and its, often unwitting, woke proponents.

It achieves the worthy goals of diversity, equity and inclusion not through ill-thought-out legislation, empty dictates and virtue-signaling proclamations that divide society into the oppressed and the oppressors, but by uniting people around a common vision that declares unity of purpose and ignites hope in the future.

The declaration exposes the nonsense of the postmodernism in the concluding statement which affirms what we have always known but have neglected and even forgotten.

We are not just vehicles for profit-making. We don’t always act rationally in our own self-interest. In fact, it is when we forsake our self-interest that we become truly human, through self-mastery become truly free and through freedom become truly happy and at peace within ourselves, with our neighbors and with the eternal and the unchanging.

Just like the American Declaration of Independence defined a new nation and forged the American identity, the Freedom Declaration for Peace defines a new post-industrial society for a new generation of global citizens.

As such, it signals an end to the madness of postmodernism, the demise of national exceptionalism and religious extremism, while heralding the rise of global citizens united by a common vision and guided by a new awareness and understanding of the meaning of freedom.

It represents the next phase of human progress that started with primitivism and superstition, enlightened through modernism, darkened through postmodernism almost to the point of extinction by generation woke, and re-awakened through a common vision that builds on the solid foundations of the past.

Importantly, it represents a new era of peace.

This is the era of the shalom, salaam and the ohm shanti becoming more than hopeful greetings but a new reality, championed by a new generation of peacemakers affirming what we have always known but have neglected and forgotten.