{"id":2212797,"date":"2024-04-04T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-west-decided-to-touch-the-stove-its-destroying-us\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:11:38","slug":"the-west-decided-to-touch-the-stove-its-destroying-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-west-decided-to-touch-the-stove-its-destroying-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The West&#8217;s Decision to Touch the Stove: A Destructive Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-west-decided-to-touch-the-stove-its-destroying-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the societal challenges faced\u200b by \u2063Western civilization, \u200dfocusing on\u200d the resurgence of societal \u2064issues \u2062and the impact on moral and social norms. It highlights examples of euthanasia, drug abuse, pornography, \u2062and changing family dynamics, attributing these challenges \u200cto the erosion\u2064 of traditional values and societal immunity previously provided by religion. The text\u2062 delves into the societal \u200cchallenges confronting Western \u2063civilization, emphasizing\u200c the\u200c resurgence of \u200dsocietal issues and their effects on\u2062 moral and social norms. It underscores instances of\u200c euthanasia, drug abuse, pornography, and shifting family dynamics, linking these concerns to the decline of traditional values\u2063 and the \u200bsocietal immunity once safeguarded by\u2062 religion.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western civilization has a major problem: Every societal ill that had been taken off the table by generations of received wisdom has now come back and come roaring back to life stronger than ever.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest example of this is exemplified in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">piece<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by Rupa Subramanya in Bari Weiss\u2019 Free Press that speaks of the spates of suicide and euthanasia growing in the West.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The piece speaks of Zoraya ter Beek, 28, who expects to be euthanized in early May and plans to be cremated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder. Now she was tired of living\u2014despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that \u201cthere\u2019s nothing more we can do for you. It\u2019s never gonna get any better.\u201d At that point, she said, she decided to die. \u201cI was always very clear that if it doesn\u2019t get better, I can\u2019t do this anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She is not the only one, unfortunately. Euthanasia is becoming incredibly common across the West.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the United States, euthanasia has jumped from 2018 to 2021 by 53% and in Canada by 125%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasingly, the West is legalizing euthanasia for people who are clearly not terminal. For example, Lauren Hoeve. As the piece explains:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On November 30, 2022, Hoeve, a Dutch YouTube creator who was then 27, took to her newly created blog, Brain Fog, to <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/hersenmist.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announce<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that she wanted to die. She explained that she had autism, ADHD, ARFID (a.k.a. avoidant\/restrictive food intake disorder), depression, anxiety, a \u201chistory of complex trauma,\u201d and, since 2019, myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome. She added that she had registered with the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/expertisecentrumeuthanasie.nl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Euthanasia Expertise Center<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in The Hague, to get the ball rolling.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She then committed suicide. She was 28. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This sort of stuff is becoming more and more common. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it\u2019s not just this social malady that is plaguing the West. Drug abuse is plaguing the West. 128 million Americans report having used marijuana at some point in their lifetime. It\u2019s worth noting that marijuana today is significantly more addictive and more dangerous than marijuana when you were a kid.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pornography is not only widespread in its availability, but also in its use and its addiction. The latest stats show that about 70% of American men view pornography. 24% of American women say they view pornography as well. The number of people who admit to being addicted is actually quite high. The impacts of pornography on the human brain are very much like drug addiction. There\u2019s a dopamine release, it wears off, and then people want more of the dopamine. And so they go back to the pornography.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This empties out relations. It destroys the relationship between men and women. Men begin to see women as sexual objects in a way different than would normally be the case. It disconnects them from other human beings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1939-our-unaliving-civilization-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We see this with regard to major societal issues like family formation and childbearing. 31% of women aged 30 to 34 in the United States are childless now, which is much higher than ever in the United States. When it comes to LGBTQ+- identity, fully 22.3% of Gen Z say they are LGBTQ+- .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That has tremendous societal impact. It turns out that when one-fifth of your population suggests that they are no longer going to engage in monogamous heterosexual relationships with the goal of family formation, it has a major impact on your civilization.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what exactly is going on? Why are all of these social maladies suddenly cropping up? Social epidemics are spreading through the population like wildfire. But in order for that epidemic to actually take hand, the systemic immunity of a society has to be compromised.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was the immunity to all of these sorts of bad ideas? The answer for literally hundreds of years was religion. Not just because people believed in God, but because there are two particular facts about religion that are deeply necessary to understand the beneficial and salutary effects of religion on a society.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One: Religion takes certain moral matters off the table. It says, \u201cGod says X, therefore don\u2019t do X.\u201d Why is that important? It\u2019s important because when you\u2019re talking about time-tested wisdom, one reason why any society might say something like, \u201cGod says \u2018thou shalt not murder\u2019\u201d is because it takes the subject off the table for debate. Once God says it, you don\u2019t need to come up with an independent rationale as to why it\u2019s not okay to murder.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reality is that when it comes to the vast majority of rules we abide by in society, those are rules not because somebody sat somewhere in a cave and came up with a rationale for the rule, but because over trial and error, over evolutionary long periods of time, those are rules that have been found to be effective.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You don\u2019t have to explain <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">why <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it works. You just have to know that it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">does work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the great lies that the Enlightenment told us is that every single thing that was good required a rationale.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s not even the same way that science typically works. People tend to think that science works by having a theoretician in the lab who comes up with a theory and then the theory has practical ramifications.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Very often it\u2019s the reverse. Very often the inventions that we use come from someone tinkering in their garage and doing trial and error until something worked. They may not even know <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">why <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it worked. They just know that it did.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s the first thing religion does. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second thing it does is to create the social fabric necessary to enforce those rules without a top-down state. It creates the intermediate institutions of society that act as an enforcement mechanism.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you violate the rule of society, for example, that says that you should get married and have kids and live within the boundaries of the church, the rest of the members of the church might not want you at the church. You\u2019re not going to be part of that particular social fabric.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is necessary. Any society has to have rules that are enforced by social censure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But both of the things religion provided have been dissolved. We have become the \u201ctouch the stove\u201d civilization.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you teach your very young kids to avoid touching the stove you don\u2019t explain, \u201cCertain objects are hot. When you touch a hot object, you get burned.\u201d You say, \u201cDon\u2019t touch the stove. And if you touch the stove, there will be a consequence.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We as a society have decided that anything we can\u2019t explain requires us to touch the stove. So we\u2019re going to touch the stove on everything.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So things that we\u2019re just common-sense propositions \u2014 such as \u201cIt is good that you get married and have children\u201d \u2014 we as a society decided to ask, \u201cWhy not alternatives? What\u2019s wrong with alternatives? Why can\u2019t all alternatives be treated as perfectly equivalent?\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer to that is that it fails. Society fails when you don\u2019t have man, woman, child. End of story. Societies that don\u2019t focus on man, woman, child fall apart because that is the basis of every functional civilization. But we decided because we couldn\u2019t come up with a rationale, why we shouldn\u2019t we have man, man, no child, or woman, woman, no child?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We touched the stove. The result is widespread childlessness; breakdown in family formation, destruction of existing families, children born into families where they\u2019re not really families, just a mom and a kid, because dad is nowhere to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That has resulted in many more social maladies. We had to touch the stove when it came to drug use. We as a society had decided that it would be bad if huge swaths of the population ingested hallucinogenic drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then we decided, well, what if we tried it? What if we touch the stove? Maybe it\u2019ll be fine. How do we know?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so the time-tested wisdom that favored sobriety was thrown out the window in favor of something different. Has it been salutary in its effect on young Americans? I would suggest the answer is no.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We used to say that engaging in pornography ought to be illicit, that it is bad that when you view pornography, it does something to your brain that is not good, it perverts your view of the opposite sex, of sex itself and of relationships. And then we decided, \u201cOh, but really, is it going to be that bad? What, are you just a prude, man? Can you find a rationale for your prudishness?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response used to be, \u201cI don\u2019t have to find a rationale. It\u2019s gross and bad and you shouldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s bad for your soul, and it\u2019s bad for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that was accepted wisdom for literally hundreds of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then we decided to touch the stove and find out what happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This has had incredibly negative effects on our civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western civilization faces a pressing issue: problems once thought resolved are resurfacing with unprecedented strength. 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