We are progressively retrogressing

We have advanced in virtually all fronts

There is no doubt that humanity has advanced on virtually all fronts. We have moved from primitive bush life to nomadic pastoralism to subsistence farming to most complicated mechanized and scientifically improved farming. Man has landed on moon, we have sent objects to mars, we can predict weather with a degree of precision, communication is possible around the globe, at once we can be united in a second and the communication streamed live. Indeed the globe has just become a village in the truest sense of the word not with the ability to communicate via the internet with all the corners of the world live through Skype teleconferencing or other etc. We have understood ourselves so well and so health has by far been improved.

Some things are basic

But one thing is a fact; however much we advance, some things are basic like our relations, the basic intrinsic human traits that define us are unchanged, our basic building blocks of inheritance are genes, these marvels of nature that communicate information too complicated to fathom from one miracle that is a human being to the next with a degree of precision that is a child remain. Science serves us well in understanding nature and trying to copy it we develop equipments that by far improve our lives. This must be the explanation behind the internal combustion engine whose systolic and diastolic motions causes the impelling motion that is automobile and all other usage that is the engine. The concept of the heart pumping blood to sustain life is employed here.

We are not defined by gadgets alone

But we are not defined by gadgets alone, no we are not defined by the most sophisticated military tank that we can put in the battlefront, I say no we are not only defined by the fastest airship that Boeing and airbus can build, not the fastest bullet train that we can put on our rails. Our civilization is also defined by our capacity to care about one another, to destroy slavery and injustice. And yes our civilization is also about how much we can alleviate suffering of our fellow human beings. We will actually be apt to define our ability to do to another as we would that they do unto us as the defining moment of our civilization.

Truth relative by dictum

Yet we now stand in a pivotal time in the history of human kind when with the maturing humanist convictions of renaissance which were scavenged from graeco-romanic philosophies and convictions that have led us to destruction of all foundational basis that we have clung to for centuries, things that defined us have been convoluted. They have been questioned, alternatives have been suggested and we stand at a time when as the expanse is so is the worldviews that we can adhere to. Truth is now regarded as relative by dictum. And so every opinion counts. We will tolerate every opinion as long as it is not a religious dogma. Of which if it be one, it will be fought violently. We regard the constitution as supreme and yet the bible is dismissed. We have fought for our liberties for so long yet we threaten those liberties by betraying the very essence of our being; humanity.

This is simply weird

Nothing proves this like the recent vocal advocacy for LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender). From the onset these behaviors are not new. They have been practiced since yore, we can try to explain these ideas but may be humanity has continued to discover and at some point thought that that pleasure that copulation gives could be arrived at by other means. Masturbation is one of the ways. The others as suggested above also form the list. Additionally the use of the pleasure gadget by women.  The hedonistic obsession that is our society has substituted the pursuit of life with indulgence and pursuit of pleasure. Whichever way this can be attained it doesn’t matter, the end justifies the means. But nothing takes us to the world of the beasts than human beings than these behaviors. While the animals will go for the opposite sex, we men want to do it the most unnatural way. Even the most accepted lock and key hypothesis that explains many a biological concept disproves this stupidity that we have plunged ourselves into. Nothing beats logic than the attempt to explain this as a human right. And the attempt by the west to force the whole world to embrace this is simply weird.

we are progressively retrogresing 

And so since development is measured best with the level of human development index we will as we concur with the disgrace that we are embracing as an accepted norm agree that we are progressively retrogressing. What will stop us from this; at the moment there seems to be none. But the upright will continue to be upright and on their shoulders the human race pegs its hope. Where is the place of father, mother and children in a gay union? No one will explain this no one cares to, but even those advocating for this like Obama and Cameron are themselves not practicing it because they know it is abominable, out rightly diabolical. It is shameful that they lack the courage to say what is right.

Timeless truth that will never change

And we still have this hope that the upright will never cease to give direction when all else is lost. They have never and once humanity plunges in a worst apostasy, infamy and immediately God raises a revival that restores humanity into his original intent of a fellowship with Him. We will then choose to obey God rather than man for the bible that says (do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. Lev 18:22) is too dear to us than the man made constitutions. This is a timeless truth that will never change. 

Democracy has been perverted like Athenians will we reclaim it?

Greeks invented democracy

Civilization in the 21st century and onwards will be bound to glorify democracy while abhorring all other forms of governing people ever conceived by man. Democracy itself was invented by the Greeks. In the second half of the 6th century BC, Athenians fell under the tyranny of Peisistratos and his sons Hippias and Hipparchos afterwards. But they overthrew the tyranny. And to prevent Athens from becoming a Spartan puppet, Cleisthenes proposed to his fellow citizens that Athens undergo a revolution: where all citizens share in political power, regardless of status: that Athens becomes a "democracy." The advent of the democracy cured many of the ills of Athens and led to a 'golden age' for the Athenians. And so democracy developed out of fear of being ruled by a tyrant or an autocracy. The antiquity of civil government can be traced to Nimrod who chose to control his fellow men by establishing a monarchy by sheer might. Hitherto man didn’t concern himself with what his fellow man was doing. And had no interest in controlling him.

Man has always tried to control fellow man

And so afterwards man has always tried to control others and out of fear of being controlled by their fellow man he has always tried to assert that all are born free and equal. Democracy therefore ended up as the best form of government that seeks to preserve the truth that all human beings are sovereigns whose conscience is sacrosanct and should not be violated. On this count then democracy upholds this principle that whoever governs me should only do so under my permission and should do it on my behalf and in a way that I would approve that the governing be done. This is a principle brought alive by Christianity and mercilessly trampled upon by atheistic-pagan-heathenistic societies.

Autocracy masquerading as democracy

This ideal is not however the case. This because as we have seen we have emergence of a few influential citizens who rule opinion, determine who rules and forms a cartel which has to admit you before you can be elected or influence policy. It is something akin to a rule by an autocracy masquerading as democrats. Due to their hold on the economic purse of the country they also pass as an oligarchy. And since they tend to pass it to their progenies it is more or less a hereditary oligarchy.This lot is an entrenched interest party that will fight tooth and nail to retain its hold onto power and strategic positions of influence for economic interests. Their hold onto power however becomes a threat to democracy when they block those who are not-so privileged from ever ascending to positions of influence. This practically negates the spirit of democracy which is the taking political power to all citizens to share in it.

An elected plutocracy

It is real all-over the world, the democratic decision making which should be made by all citizens is now invested with a few elected representatives who don’t necessarily consult the citizens but serve the interests of lobbyists and corporate business interests. A new word corporotocracy has been coined to refer to the heinous economic crimes that the big business folks are subjecting to the underprivileged citizens. In other words it becomes an elected plutocracy.

The masses are a bewildered herd

They use the media as a necessary tool for the functioning of the system. They assume that the masses are a bewildered herd that needs to be guided by the ruling class. They assume that they are mere spectators and influence the public opinion through the media to manufacture the public consent without coercing it. Edward Bernays hinted to this when he said the masses need to be manipulated by an invisible government to insure the survival of democracy. Their tool for control is largely through propaganda. They assume that men are ignorant and stupid who cannot be their best judges for their own interests.

They have made democracy mobocracy

All this has made the twenty first century democracy to become mobocracy this is the tyranny of the masses while in a fine democracy the majority would have their way and a minority their say, the minority’s rights are never respected but instead their views being considered they are vilified and anathematized and no rational consideration to their opinions is given they are lumped as estranged and ostracized. The painful thing is that it is an open secret that the majority opinion is not necessarily right. More often than not it is a line arrived at through at times sheer demagoguery and shameless grandstanding and no objective reasoning at all. Once manufactured it is fed through a corrupt media always available to be used by the mighty to stealthily propagate pernicious propaganda for the sheer benefit of the banal elites.

Stopping the subtle dictatorship

Their survival tactic while in this is to hinder a development of the emancipated individuals so they are never capable of making rational decisions. Whatever new concept that they want to introduce to the public is released slowly in bits in a process called desensitization until we accept it and then they have won us. The only way to stop their subtle dictatorship is by being awake and identifying their tactics and guarding our independence to self determine our affairs without their manipulative tendencies. Like the Athenians will we reclaim our democracy?