Prof. Paul Eidelberg

(December 2014 updated from June 2003)

What solidifies and sustains a society? Surely it’s morality.  By morality I mean acting from motives larger than self-interest.  Morality thus requires self-restraint as opposed to self-indulgence.

Although morality is first learned in the family, by the good example and teachings of parents, the family is not sufficient.  Morality also requires the support of law. The law is designed to deter and punish as well as disgrace bad behavior and pernicious teachings. Without morality bolstered by public law, no society can long endure.  This is why America is approaching its end.

Immorality and lawlessness are rampant in the United States.  This decay may be attributed to the following causes:

* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by American colleges and universities, more precisely, by the moral relativism purveyed by the social sciences and humanities, where students are taught there are no objective standards of right and wrong, good and bad, decent or indecent.

* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by the American Supreme Court. The Court’s rulings tacitly deny the distinction between human and brute behavior, that is, between what is distinctively human vis-à-vis what is sub-human. What is done privately may now be portrayed publically. Hence the multibillion dollar pornography industry, the vulgarization of speech with obscenity, and the “I’m okay, you’re okay” adage that sanctions sexual perversions.

* To this new and permissive morality, add the Supreme Court’s greater concern for persons accused or convicted of crime, than for their victims. The Supreme Court has thereby undermined deterrence and effective law enforcement.

* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by America’s economic system, by its encouragement of greed and self-indulgence.

* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by the entertainment industry’s unbridled emphasis on sex and violence. Television has stultified the minds of young and old alike.

* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by making Americans more and more dependent on Government, which undermines the ethics of personal responsibility.

* Finally, immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by democracy itself! Its cardinal principles, freedom and equality, have been divorced from ethical and rational constraints.  Carried to excess, freedom leads to licentiousness, while egalitarianism levels moral and intellectual distinctions and thereby undermines deference to excellence.

Meanwhile, egalitarian democracy nurtures an extreme cultural pluralism, which dissolves any solid sense national identity. Ponder the illegal influx of Hispanics across the southern border. They have surely been infiltrated by Islamists who will be welcomed by Muslim communities. They will bolster “sleeper” cells linked to Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran.  America may be approaching another 9/11.

Islam aside, what has sustained America is economic prosperity.  Should the U.S. suffer an economic depression comparable to that of 1929, the American edifice will collapse like a house of cards, for there is no effective morality, no cultural solidarity, to sustain widespread privation.  One out of two families is broken. Respect for law has plummeted. The “ancient faith” that Lincoln saw in the Declaration of Independence has been shattered by the university-bred doctrine of relativism.  A depression will trigger guerilla warfare by disaffected minorities in New York, America’s financial center.  Savagery lurks in the hearts of millions, waiting, as was seen in Ferguson.

The Jews will be the first victims of this savagery. Israel-bashing and the pro-Palestinian madness on university campuses and even in the media is nothing but Jew-hatred, and this has surfaced without the calamity of a depression!

The ultimate basis of this Jew-hatred is a more or less unconscious hatred of the true source of morality, or rather, of laws of morality, the Torah.  America may be deemed a Christian nation, but its media and the nihilistic doctrines underlying higher and lower education in America is at war with the God of Israel, in whose belief the Americans of 1776 waged the most salutary revolution in human history.

But that the President of the United States, the greatest power on earth, should be allied with the villains of the paltry Palestinian Authority, the spearhead of Islam’s war against Judaism and the Jewish people, signals America’s approaching end  –  unless, unless Israel, America’s most important ally, rises to the occasion.◙