By Frosty Wooldridge
September 21, 2023
“Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.” —Will Durant
How would you like to live in Haiti? How about the Republic of Congo? What about present-day Sweden? What about Somalia? Ever consider immigrating to India? If your answer is no; why not? Do you have any reasons?
What about the fact that 70 percent of Indians do not have access to a toilet? Millions live in absolute poverty, malnutrition and misery. How about the fact that millions starve or die from AIDS over all of Africa? Could you live in Haiti where people go around killing one another as a matter of daily life?
The fact is: many countries in the world are one-step from living in the jungle. Simply put, humans step into the Darwin paradigm at the drop of a hat.
Look at Chicago! Last weekend, 24 people shot by 24 other people. Violent deaths by the hundreds in the Windy City! Is that not Third World? Are you noticing a precipitous decline in the viability of America? Do you see what’s causing it?
Writer Mark Lewis said, “Civilization” or “being civilized” are not terms that are wholly easy to define. Vagaries and degrees can exist; it would be hard to argue that any human being is totally “uncivilized” or that any human being (or culture) has a monopoly on the term. We tend to think of “civilized” societies as those who possess at least a modicum of decent behavior and progress. Perhaps “civilization” can best be defined—though possibly not with total accuracy—as a distinction between man and the animal kingdom, or in the word Durant used, the
“jungle.”
“Animals—despite some idiotic Leftist claims today—don’t have morality, art, economic goals, religion, science—things that we have often considered to be representative of “civilized” societies. Some animals do, on occasion, show some features of what we might call “civilized” behavior, but such is not planned by intelligence; it is wholly by instinct and a desire for self-preservation. The “jungle” isn’t “civilized” in any intelligent definition of the word. “Civilization” is an offshoot of humans created in the image of God, yet with a crucial, important conception: God gives man freedom of moral choice and thus the freedom to descend into barbarity and the jungle if we choose to do so.”
If you look at our major cities, you’re seeing a decline into barbaric behavior. Last Friday night, a high school kid shot to death another high school kid at a football game. Another kid executed a police officer who was writing his report in his cruiser. You all remember some guy stabbed to death four college kids while they slept in their home in Idaho. What about the 2020 riots across our country that burned and looted $2 billion worth of goods and property? This kind of “jungle” behavior sends shivers up your spine.
Are we a civilized society? Lewis said, “When people sink below a certain standard of decency, responsibility, concern for their fellow creatures, and wise, virtuous conduct, it would be hard to call them “civilized.””
“Are the inner cities of most Democratic Party-controlled metropolises “civilized”? I, personally, would not call them that. There is some behavior everywhere that classifies as “civilized,” but when that certain standard is no longer reached, barbarity becomes dominant. The streets of Chicago and San
Francisco are probably more dangerous than an Amazonian jungle.”
Lewis suggests a few ideas as to uncivilized behavior:
1. Civilized beings do not kill their own offspring for pleasure or self-gratification.
2. Contrariwise, civilized people nurture and care for their children, educate and discipline them, and protect them from uncivilized predators. It is called “the family,” and it has been the foundation of every civilized society in history. The more a society destroys the nuclear family, the less “civilized” it becomes. (Note that 7 out of 10 African-American babies lack a father in the home.)
3. A civilized society knows the difference between males and females. Even animals do. Any society that doesn’t have descended beneath a jungle level. Nature cannot be destroyed, and civilization can be advanced.
4. A civilized society knows that all its collective parts should contribute to the well-being and advancement of that society. It will structure itself in such a way as to accomplish that. A civilized society does not encourage wanton, degraded, degenerate, slothful—or uncivilized—behavior.
5. The glorification of violence and sex in a society is uncivilized.
These things appeal to the most squalid nature of man, his most carnal appetites, not his noblest. Uncontrolled lust and violence are characteristics of the lowest common denominator of humanity. Jungle instincts must be restrained, contained, and overcome for civilization to exist. Any society that refuses to do so will suffer dire consequences, as indeed we see in America today.
Lewis said, “It is evident to any wise, just observer that many parts of the United States today have descended into the jungle and are getting worse. And all at the behest and encouragement of those who should know better. It is critical to understand—and too many people do not—that left unchecked and unhindered, a jungle will overrun everything in its path. But when the jungle is the source of someone’s wealth and power, it is obviously in their best interest to let it grow and flourish.”
At this date, I am reading the book by Mark Levin: Democrats Hate America. He explicitly shows how those “Woke” politicians are dismantling our history, our historical figures, our culture, our traditions and our language. New York City is nearly 50 percent foreign-born. They speak 800 languages. Over 160,000 are homeless and leaching off taxpayers. Killings are numerous. New York City is a “jungle” by any definition.
Biden just imported 8,000,000 (million) third world refugees in the past 30 months. He’s on course to import another 4,000,000 in the next 16 months. How many do you think we can absorb before their “jungle” becomes our “jungle?”
If you look across the American landscape, everywhere liberals dominate, America deteriorates and declines into “jungle” behavior. You have to wonder whether or not we’ve gone so far down that rabbit hole that there is no chance to climb out. What do you think?
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