Departed Voices That Still Whisper

                        Departed Voices That Still Whisper

               Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal 10/22/17

            For a century or more, three men have ruled over us from their graves.  We still bear their mark. We live under their influence.  The ideas of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud don’t just linger.  They dominate.

            In America and Europe, Darwinian theory is science education’s default position.  In America’s science classrooms, Darwinism is the gospel.  If you question it, your intellect is in question and you’re as backward as those who doubt that humans cause global warning.

            As for Marx, don’t think socialism is dead.  The vast Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is no more – thanks to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John, and the enlightened Soviet Premier Gorbachev – but active socialists are still everywhere.  In China, parts of Europe, Venezuela, and in pesky Cuba, to name only a few, socialists persist.

            And Freud?  The father of today’s talking industry (psychoanalysis, Dr. Phil, etc.) may be losing ground in psychologists’ offices, but you wouldn’t know it from examining college psychology textbooks.

            Darwinists still reject Aristotle’s time-honored scientific method, as do most science teachers who teach and preach Darwinism.  Aristotle insisted that the scientific approach to all questions and research should be to observe, record, and theorize, or draw a hypothesis.  He taught and practiced experimentation.  If the question is whether or not ivory soap floats, place it in water – many times – and see.  Theorize therefrom: ivory soap floats, or it doesn’t.

            Yet, regarding the origin of man, who was present to observe and record?  Not Darwin or anyone else we’ve been able to locate.  So Darwinists speculate and theorize without observation, record, or repeatable experiment.  How scientific or reliable is that?  Darwinists are people of great faith.  Does anyone truly think man’s origins can be either verified or falsified by any imaginable evidence?

            Darwin is not dead.  Or maybe he is and is being propped up by the field of education which, one would think, should teach us to examine more than one theory.

            Known, professing Marxists (socialists) are alive and well in America, and are neither secretive nor quiet.  Can we all say Bernie Sanders?  Never in presidential politics has an avowed socialist attracted and aroused as many voters as Sanders did.   Whether he practices what he preaches is being called into question.  He is doing well financially.  It’s fair to ask if he is distributing his wealth.  He wants the rest of us to do so.

            Turns out, there is a great difference between Democrats and Republicans after all.  Does anyone think Sanders could have run as a Republican?  What does the Democratic Party’s embrace of Sanders say about the Democratic Party?

            Karl Marx lives and whispers through Sanders and his socialized medicine, fake equality, and forced charity.  (Why should governments at any level subsidize the arts or non-profit charities?  Let individuals decide for themselves where they shall give their money.)  Marx is neither dead nor propped up. 

            It wasn’t Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner who began the sexualization of America.  It was Freud.  Hefner only commercialized Freud’s philosophy.  Yes, let’s call Freud a philosopher.  Like Darwin and Marx, he initiated a belief system, a religion as it were.  Denying the power of the territorial imperative (the desire for one’s own place, house, or territory), or the power of selfless love, Freud posits sex as the strongest human impulse or drive.

            Since the 1960s, college students have fed on Freudian thought.  If Hefner’s salacious pornography wasn’t available in the campus bookstore or somewhere nearby, the titillating ideas about sexuality from Freud and all the “sexologists” he spawned could be found in textbooks.  Adamantly opposed to religion, particularly his parents’ Judaism, Freud copied Darwin and Marx and created his own.  Whether or not psychologists still employ Freud’s message and methods, his religion still covers the earth.

            Freud is not dead.  Neither does he whisper.  He shouts from Hollywood and the seedy mansions of pornographers.  He is transported into the populace by hotel chains and into homes by AT&T.  The porn he birthed is ubiquitous.

            Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudism enjoy a stronghold granted them by academia.  All three are academia’s orthodoxy.  Darwin set out to find who we are and where we came from; Marx aspired to empower the proletariat by demonizing capitalism.  Freud sought to loosen us from our supposed “sexual bonds of sexual repression.”

            High atop their pinnacles they perch.  Wise we would be to rope them and give the rope a substantial tug.  The future of our children would be well served.

Roger Hines

10/18/17