The Red Staters are right: there is a conspiracy to disempower them

[elfs]

If you think I was kidding about the "sexual permissiveness inherent in red state value," I wasn't. As revealed in a recent study published in Relevant Magazine, a magazine about Christian culture, surveys indicated that Christian teenagers are having premarital sex and abortions just as often, if not more often, than non-Christians. This result is completely in sync with the Red Sex, Blue Sex result from 2008.

Red states values are dependent upon chanelling people into a community-dependent state. It always worked before. Sadly, you can't run a modern, technologically complex society on the backs of people suited for the industrial jobs of the mid-20th century. There is a conspiracy to disempower peolpe who hold Red State values, but it's not being organized by Blue Staters-- it's being organized by Red Staters. They want their televisions and their internet and their cheap agricultural products and even a cure for cancer-- all the things you can't have if your system is organized around the idea that late education is a luxury, and it's okay if a man falls short of acheiving it.

The article in Relevant points out a powerful, and painful, dichotomy for the American Christian community: either it's going to have to swallow the hard truth that young people have sex and start giving them the tools to do it correctly, or Christianity itself is going to have become a minor cult made up primarily of those ill-suited to a world of augmented reality, space elevators, and nanotech cancer cures.

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[(Anonymous)]

"or Christianity itself is going to have become a minor cult made up primarily of those ill-suited to a world of augmented reality, space elevators, and nanotech cancer cures."

And that isn't a highly desirable outcome... why?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it wasn't highly desirable. Just that if Christians don't want to end up there, they'd better start accommodating faster. The world isn't slowing down.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Kinda like how they attack science, yet still want to and expect to have access to and use all of the things which that very science creates. [The sciences of Biology and Atmospheric/Oceanic Forecasting come immediately to mind.]

I've said it a lot in the last 6 years: I really wish that we who know science could turn to these people, say, "No Science for You," and then cease doing any science en-masse.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It isn't the libertarians who are going Galt; it's the liberals. The ones who make life better for everyone. They've more or less given up. And as they do so, America will just get shittier until we finally all get so fed up we... do what?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

The reason why they're giving up, Elf, is not to motivate others. It's out of exhaustion & despair.

Or spite.

After all, one can waste one's breath playing Cassandra, and get frustrated. Or one could give up, let things get shittier, then rub the noses of others into the bed that they've shitted because they wouldn't listen.