The decline and fall of Western civilization, #79985

You people don’t know what I endure for you.  The bowels of the internet I slog through to bring you timely, informative commentary on our Catholic Faith and the culture.  Well, I found a doozy, but I must forewarn you, this story is sicko and truly shows the accelerating collapse of morals in the culture.  What am I ranting about?  Well……..

Imagine this.  A family raises a young girl.  She’s bright.  She must have at least some means.  She’s bright enough and well enough off to get into Duke.  Beyond that, we don’t know much, except that we know way, way too much, because this girl, one would pray, someone’s darling little girl, produced a Powerpoint slide deck highlighting all the high profile Duke athletes she had one night stands with (language, topic warning).  It’s pretty gross.  It goes into terrific, painful detail.  And it’s a crying shame. 

There’s a dude with a blog who has sort of what he describes as an “alpha male player’s” take on things (extreme language and topic warnings).  He savages this girl.   She’s a slut.  She’s useless, and has destroyed what slight value she may have had in the player’s field by putting together this slide deck. 

I’m posting these sordid links, which I would normally ignore, to give some examples of where we are with the dominant culture.  This is what “dating” has become on college campuses, even, no, especially among those who view themselves as elites.  Social climbing girls trying to sleep their way into some kind of “meaningful” relationship with a highly valued target male, and numerous guys willing to take advantage of the situation without the slightest intent of ever taking the girl even slightly seriously.  It has ever been thus, I suppose, but nowadays the trend is so pervasive, so free-wheeling in its shucking of any moral pretenses, and so base, that we’re descending to levels of amoral sexualism not seen since before the days of the Roman Republic.  Sure, there have always been those who were amoral, from the sensualists of the fin de sicle Burgundian France to excesses in the courts of numerous European states over the late medieval period, but I don’t know that we’ve seen such large segmenst of any population embrace such hedonism in a very long time. 

I have daughters.  My heart breaks for the father of this girl, for her, for her whole family.  She has been sold a horrifically false bill of goods, and she’s probably only beginning to become aware of the costs of her wholesale abandonment of traditional morality.  But it’s not just her – she’s just the most recent, public example, having made the infantile decision to publicize her sexuality.  There are thousands, likely millions, more girls out there who are giving themselves away at the drop of a hat, for nothing more than a momentary illusion of relationship, and even more guys willing to take them up on the offer.  It’s a road that leads to nowhere but pain for all involved, although few guys, especially the “players,” would admit such.  For the guys, the benefits are obvious.  For the girls, apparently brainwashed by the dominant culture and the transmogrification of “feminism” into slutty womanhood, the benefit seems to be to fit into the cultural narrative they are awash in, and to perhaps meet for a short time that constant human need to be “loved.”  It’s all a lie.

How does one stop something like this?  I don’t mean to you or your family, I mean, in general?  There are no easy fixes for a general collapse of morals.  God’s Law is written on our hearts, and that pain those involved in this hook up culture feel is that law trying to tell them that the path they are pursuing is destructive and will lead to their constant torment, but the culture shouts so loud and God’s voice is quiet and requires stillness to hear.  We’re far too busy for that nowadays.

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