Short Stack: Moral Self-Destruction?
Is it time we recollect the “laws of nature and of nature’s God” upon which our nation was founded? Or shall we sacrifice everything and everyone we love upon the alter of postmodern nihilism?
You don’t need bombs or bullets to take down a self-governing constitutional republic. There’s no need for physical destruction. No explosions, no bloodshed—just a slow, creeping moral rot.
Destroyers don’t have to convince citizens that injustice is right or that slavish compliance and dependency are somehow heroic. That’s too much work.
Instead, simply sap the capacity of the people to govern themselves by whispering in their ears that right and wrong are mere illusions. Persuade others that the line between decent and depraved, honorable and shameful, is just some old cultural baggage we’re better off ditching so that we can make “progress.”
You don’t have to brainwash others into wanting to do wrong. Just get them to believe wrong doesn’t exist.
Once that sinks in—once folks buy that moral right and wrong, good and bad, are mere fairy tales—the guardrails come off. They’ll chase every urge, every appetite, every desire—no matter how dark or twisted, no matter if it means violating the rights of others—because, why hold back?
If nothing is truly wrong, anything goes, right? With no moral compass, there’s no need for moral brakes. People will do wrong with clear consciences once they equate freedom with nihilism.
And that’s when things unravel. A people without an anchor—people who “feel” that freedom isn’t doing what’s right; freedom isn’t virtue; freedom is doing anything one has the will to do—won’t just stumble, they’ll torch their own republic. They’ll lose the ability to govern themselves because they won’t know how or why to exercise self-control.
Picture it: a sprawl of lost souls—depressed, addicted, living without meaning or purpose, suicidal, violent, thieving, even murderous—spinning in a void where relativists and nihilists sneer at the idea of a moral North Star. Only an iron-fisted totalitarian police state can keep a lid on that kind of cultural mess.
Self-rule? Gone. Swapped for chains, forged not by force, but by surrender.
This is the path down which we are heading if we continue to substitute “diversity” of arbitrary cultural prejudices for moral truth. We see it already, as social pathologies continue to worsen the more “progressive” the United States becomes. What say you, fellow Americans? Is it time we recollect the “laws of nature and of nature’s God” upon which our nation was founded? Can we agree that anything is truly, objectively wrong? Or shall we sacrifice everything and everyone we love upon the alter of postmodern nihilism?
This might be the most important question of our age.
This hits hard—and it should. Dr. K., you cut to the core of a truth we’re too often afraid to confront: when we abandon moral clarity, we don’t become freer—we become lost.
The unraveling of a republic doesn’t require an external enemy; it only takes enough people convinced that right and wrong are outdated concepts. Once moral relativism takes hold, it’s not long before chaos masquerades as liberty and self-destruction is sold as progress. Just look at the passing of Colorado House Bill 25-1312 and what it actually means.
Reclaiming our future means reclaiming the idea that truth exists—and that virtue, not unchecked appetite, is the foundation of real freedom. Dr. K., this isn’t just cultural commentary—it’s a wake-up call.
I wish more would use this argument in response to horrific violence rather than the excuses and unconstitutional solutions that are offered.