George Rebane
In discussions on these pages during the last months a new aspect of the liberal mind has revealed itself. It has always been there, but those of us not blessed with the thinking abilities of the liberal mind seem to overlook this strong characteristic of progressive thought. And this is that there exists some universal overarching set of morals that 1) is totally independent of and not anchored in any cultural framework, and 2) that the tenets of this universal morality should be imposed on a selective, as needed basis, to promote the spread of collectivistic society. (My own thoughts about morality are here.)
A corollary to the existence of such universal morality is that access to it as a reliable standard with which to laud and/or lament other peoples’ behavior is reserved for the extra-cultural collectivist – people who admit to no cultural membership, judge all cultures to be of equal merit to humankind, and would prefer that cultural boundaries disappear from the face of the earth. To promote the latter goal, they all foster and celebrate multiculturalism in western societies, knowing what effect such social tolerances have on each culture so compacted.
Universal morality is the prime unstated basis for large masses of people being persuaded and aggregated by such notions as ‘income equality’, ‘social justice’, ‘social fairness’, and a never-ending expansion of ‘rights’ whose implementation is funded by others belonging to ‘predatory’ classes that are the cause of the world’s problems.
Universal morality is supra-legal. It can be used to variously indict those who have prospered through no infraction of a country’s laws. By ‘variously indict’ I mean that the tenets of universal morality can be fashioned at will out of whole cloth for a cause célèbre du jour, and then abandoned when/if they become inconvenient for the next engagement. It is for this reason that it is hard to nail any of these tenets to the wall.
[In an apparent attempt at a universal morality, a Dr Kent M. Keith, Ed.D. has copyrighted(!?) and sells what to him is ‘The Universal Moral Code’. It’s not clear whether he wants you to ask permission before attempting to put any of the code’s tenets into practice. Nevertheless, their examination reveals that there is little more there than what we are taught in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Most certainly the interpretation of their adherence or violation is no easier, and in a more perfect social order such interpretation and enforcement should be left to “servant-leaders” of “existing major institutions” transformed by “new regenerative forces operat(ing) within them.” The institutionally naked individual apparently has no place in a new world adhering to universal morality.]
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