Two bits of news information picked up from the internet today serve as reminders of the growing moral decline of the Western world.
The first item caching my eye was the premeditated attack by a pair of 12 year-old Wisconsin girls to murder a third, and the second item was the announcement that Dan Marino, star quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, has joined a growing group of former players suing the NFL concerning its policy towards injuries.
The atrocity committed by the 12 year-old girls joins the list of school violence that has become so commonplace that it is hardly newsworthy anymore. Within the past few months there have been school shootings, stabbings, and desecrations. The shootings and stabbings were by boys, the desecrations by boys and girls, and the grade school stabbing by girls only. It appears that gender-equal education is working well as regards to violence, and women can now look forward to careers in the military where they can exhibit more freely their immoral training and the aberrant female behavior it produces.
The addition of the name of a star quarterback to the growing list of former players suing the NFL was made somewhat newsworthy because of his fame; however, the subject of football injuries continues to be met with relative ennui by the media, sports fans, and public. When the season begins the fans will be cheering for those players who make the most damaging tackles, punishing quarterback sacks, and violently aggressive blocks. The issue of making the playing of football relatively safe is an oxymoron. The game has evolved into a very violent sport that has replaced baseball as the natural pastime.
Baseball is a man’s game, it involves all sorts of strategy including deliberate walks, bunts, double steals, batter substitutions, infield shifts, outfield shifts, and pitching substitutions. Now that women have been brought into the sports arena the focus has shifted to sensation and away from strategy. Home runs elicit a lot more whoopee than base hits; therefore the game has been changed to be more long-ball oriented. In golf the appreciation of the skill of putting has given way to the thrill of long drives. All sports have become entertainment and the greater the thrills, fanfare, colors, and lights the greater the fan response.
American professional athletes, especially football players, have become the gladiators of the modern world. They get paid a lot for their performances; so much, that many fans resent the amount of money and do not wish them well on the field. The safety of athletes will not be improved because modern sports are based on big thrills for big money.
Returning to the issue of the teenage stabbings, attempts to make schools safer will have less success than attempts to make athletics safer. The school system cultivates the gladiator mentality. Schools receive their recruits from homes without an adequate masculine presence and the ethics that it normally contains. Children are devoid of ethics today and arrive in school with a clean moral slate that enables the inculcation of grossly materialistic and spiritually devoid information. They are taught that the purpose of education is to become highly employable and make more than the other guy (or gal). They receive a grossly materialistic education that consists of recitorial training. Upon graduation they can only recite and have no moral judgment. They make excellent fans for the gladiators.
Before concluding this essay I will review the basic purpose of both education and sports. The purpose of education is to teach people to read, write, count, think, and express themselves so that they can contribute to their familial and tribal environment. Those objectives can be completed by the 12th grade at the latest. Anything after that is vocational in nature. The greatest vocation a woman can engage in is the bringing forth of life and nurturing it. The most important vocation for a man is the creating of the environment and means for a woman to bring forth life and nurture it; money and career should only be incidentals to achieving that goal.
Sports once served as a vehicle for the elders of the tribe to evaluate the young men and determine who had the potential to best lead the tribe based on their courage, stamina, judgment, intelligence, and ability. It also gave young women an opportunity to evaluate potential mates.
More security cameras and personnel will be added to the school system, and equipment for athletes will be more safety oriented as will be the rules, but neither the school system or sports programs will become safer because they are built on materialistic and immoral foundations.
E.G.
