Admit our modern perversity and the past isn't so shocking

Looking backward in history things which appear shocking to our modern political correctness seem almost necessary when we admit our modern perversity. Modern culture, especially pop culture, seems unable to recognize anti-social talent from socially-redeeming talent. Ex-drug pushers, nihilists, anarchists, less obvious cultural Marxists, rapacious self-seeking businessman, and so on, are heavily promoted by modern culture financially and culturally.

What are some of the results of this anti-social promotion? Economic nationalism doesn't seem so shocking now that globalism has destroyed the manufacturing base and jobs in America, and greatly widened the gap between rich and poor. And “minding our own business” doesn't seem so shockingly “isolationist” now that our meddling in the world has cost us so much and brought nothing but trouble to most Americans. Preferences for ones own kind, recognized in the past, does not seem so shocking now after the great trouble caused, without success, in trying to make us all the same. And certainly without condoning the huge number of rapes in the military, perhaps keeping women largely out of the military in the past now seems not so shocking.

All the traits of human nature as defined by classical conservatism (not neoconservative) and by the science of sociobiology do not seem so shocking when we admit the modern perversity which has all but buried real human nature and healthy culture. Who are the promoters and why have they so maliciously promoted this perversity? Is it ignorance? It seems to have simply been the will to power of the promoters, who sought power by way of weakening traditional culture.

This has predictably led to much lower morale in the population, more alcoholism and drug addiction, more law breaking, more prisons, more egoistic consumption of luxuries, which has weakened the nation and denied money and effort needed for self-defense, research, health, and so on.

And thus a nation and a people decline... It needs to be turned around, perhaps beginning with the promoters of our decline.