Irresponsibility and Logical Consistency

          There is much cognitive unconformity in our country, and it weighs heavily on the minds of the intellectual. To try to smooth out the ideological wrinkles in today’s society is a harrowing task, and it often lands us in a state of mental frustration, for no matter how well we can rearrange the tangled mess of differing and combating worldviews and analyze them subjectively and critically, there often remains an underlying fallacious cesspool of contradictions. When we arrive at a state of moderate understanding of the cause of this effect, we may see that the core of most issues in America – including ideological contradiction – is the pervasive lack of responsibility, which is manifested in our government and in personal beliefs, and is reflected in the resulting society that is created.

          It is most probable that irresponsibility begins at a completely physical, fleshly level. It usually comes from poor parenting and then grows in the young child, so that by the time the child is older and thinking for his- or herself, they have been instilled with the idea that they are entitled to whatever they want at whatever cost. In fear of social distaste, parents have been known to shush their children in public instead of openly disciplining them, have principals change their children’s grade to a passing one if they fail an important test, and keep other adults from rebuking their children too. In fear of other adults looking down on them for having undisciplined, out-of-control children, the parents will subconsciously make the fear a reality by failing raise their children to learn to take responsibility for their actions. By the time they are older, the idea that they can do whatever they want and get away with it will be cemented deep within them, for they have done so their entire childhood, and it has become their way of life.

          Eventually this idea spreads out into different regions of the person, until the irresponsibility is not only physical but it is spiritual as well. Religions that suggest judgment for immoral behavior are shunned, for to assume such beliefs would force the person to take responsibility for their actions. New beliefs are invented to suite their desires, for they indeed have itching ears. Those who are unfamiliar with religion will be repulsed by it and build their own religions to make man the god. They say they are atheists for they do not believe that god exists, but unfortunately they are misinformed as to what “god” means. In truth, they have made themselves gods, and they worship themselves on a daily basis. They are filled with a selfish idea of freedom which unrealistically demands all of the benefits of “freedom,” but ignores the heavy cost, for freedom is never free. They put a new name on hedonism, and they call it “Evolution.” They use this theory to crown themselves kings of their “own” realm, pretending with all their might that this world was not created. They are forced to shut their eyes tightly to the obvious majesty of Creation lest they see the truth and be forced to turn to a God who demands justice for their immorality. Since they are forced to accept the implausible in order to support the immoral, it gives birth to a whole new level of negligence: intellectual irresponsibility.

          Because their way of living demands blindness in order to function, their way of thinking must demand the same thing; this creates incredibly fallacious attitudes in society. They begin to adopt new customs, and take offense at anything moral. They use this “offensive” morality to excuse the irrationally “inoffensive” immorality. They begin to take pride in their sins, and pretend that their biblically unacceptable ways of living are not harming anyone. People who are hurt or alarmed by the growth of sin, and stand uprightly for the morally just are called “hateful bigots.” The intellectual irresponsibility creates an illogical laziness and foolishness in which the only reliable means of debate is childish name-calling and hypocritical labelling.

          This intellectual laziness breeds hypocrisy by fostering an acceptance of fallacious arguments out of convenience to support new movements, which eventually end up contradicting their own claims. For example, “independent” feminists insist on complete self-reliance, and then the very same people are heard complaining about the lack of chivalry in the world, not understanding how they are the very ones who exterminated it. Men who were raised to treat women with honor are not always ready for a woman who disdains or turns her nose up at the hand of respectful courtesy he offers to her. Many unsuspecting men are easily discouraged from trying to polish pearls that claim to be rocks. This illogical demand for chivalry then scorn when it appears is just one example of the illogical thought-processes caused by irresponsible intellectuals.

          Another example would be evolutionist lawmakers who spend unfathomable amounts of resources on American schooling, forcing all children to learn explicitly evolutionist-slanted propaganda. The very same people often are the ones with the audacity to call Christians “intolerant, hateful bigots” for “forcing” our beliefs on others, usually when we are merely standing up for our own. Christians and other religious peoples are required to be “tolerant” of Evolutionists teaching their beliefs to our children, but they are intolerant of us sharing our beliefs with them. This double standard is almost unthinkable, which suggests a consensually intellectual blindness. This thoughtlessness is perhaps the result of irresponsibility of thought, by irrationally and desperately struggling to maintain a lifestyle in which there is absolute entitlement and an absolute lack of responsibility. Perhaps the logical fallacies of society’s “best” could all begin in the stores with the indiscipline of our children.