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    Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture
    Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture
    Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture
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    Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture

    By Damion Boyd

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    The Earth moves through space as part of a Grand Story. Some have poetically called this unfolding story the “Song of Creation”. They believe in a Creator. They believe God has a purpose. Thus, they approach each day within a Big Narrative of meaning and purpose. For example, such people may well reason that there is an order to Creation—that human life is more valuable than birds—that life seems to stack up vertically from the ground up. It rises from mineral to plant life to animals to humans and, ultimately, God is at the top. They see our physical world ascending into the spiritual. Many recognize that humans are uniquely composed of body and soul. And, the soul--the individual human heart—is at the white-hot intersection of freedom where the physical and spiritual universe collide. Such people may well recognize the moral demands of all this, but their lives have a treasured place within the Grand Story--each moment filled with eternal meaning.
    However, a growing number disagree. They say there is no overarching meaning to life—no “meta-narrative”. There is no created order because there is no Creator. Mankind is not the purpose of the universe because there is no God with a purpose. There really is no context. The human race is merely another species that came along the evolutionary process. In the vast expanse of time and space, people are actually quite insignificant. As a result, there are no eternal responsibilities. There are no fixed truths--no moral absolutes. We are not confined by transcendent, moral guidelines like “10 Commandments”. Life is what we make it. We should be utterly free to write our own story.
    These are the main 2 outlooks in conflict. There is also a "loving middle" crowd who inadvertently facilitate ruin.
    This book shows you how our culture operates on "god-free" ethics. It outlines the collapse of Western civilization and shows you how to prepare your kids.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDamion Boyd
    Release dateJun 9, 2016
    ISBN9781311622389
    Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture
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    Damion Boyd

    Boyd has experienced many unusual things. He grew up in a very large and turbulent family. His mom went blind when he was a child. His father was a battered war veteran who worked as a drill instructor in the Marines--running his family like a boot camp.at times. Having learned to cook for his family, Boyd grew up to manage restaurants. But, then went down a path of drug abuse and addiction. Finally, after turning to God for help, he overcame drug addiction and joined a Catholic monastery for 5 years. Later he left the Benedictines and got a job in a shipyard. He married a political refugee from Mexico City, is raising 3 children.His most popular books are Primal Ethics, The Curse of the Poet and Popular Misreads of Reality.He can be reached for comment at ferd453@aol.com.

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      Book preview

      Primal Ethics - Damion Boyd

      Primal Ethics:

      what our kids are taught in school and culture

      Abridged Version

      Smashwords 2016

      Minor portions of this book may be used without permission

      This book is dedicated to Ann Marie and Janessa, and to all single moms who work hard to give their children any advantage in an increasingly difficult world.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      One—--------the worldview conflict

      Two-----------the basic worldviews

      Three---------the Flat formula

      Four----------send in the clowns

      Five-----------how we rejected context through Modernity

      Six------------the Modernist impasse

      Seven--------the god-free ethics your kids are taught in school and culture

      Eight---------the Postmodern

      Nine----------more on your kids and school

      Ten----------Happiness, Hate, Harassment and Hysteria

      Eleven------the turning point

      Twelve------here a kingdom, there a kingdom

      Thirteen----the Culture War

      Fourteen---trying to flatten God

      A summary

      Introduction

      Here’s the central problem. Your children are growing up in an increasingly difficult culture that even you don’t understand. There is growing corruption and confusion and a world of pain coming round the corner. You sense it. We sense it. But, how can we protect them? One way is to help them see what they are getting into. And, to do that YOU have to know what is going on.

      For example, it has been the natural condition for the majority of mankind to suffer manipulation. Servitude and thuggish rule have controlled most populations throughout human history. It is rare that a population sees enough common reality to live free…but when that does happen great happiness and prosperity is possible. Therefore, one of the first things to recognize is that our free Western civilization is collapsing back into a more natural condition--miserable servitude. Why? When a people see truth it becomes possible for them to shape things for the better—to have accountable leaders and good results in society. However, when the general populace [like ours] begins to lack a clear vision, manipulation follows. And, here is a surprising fact: we live in a time of increasing darkness—a kind of social blackout.

      How could that be? We have access to so much more information today. We can know the weather in Zambia and look at the animals LIVE in the Hamburg Zoo. How could it be a darker time? Anything I want to know I can Google immediately. Well, the simple answer is that, unless you are WISE, a billion more facts just create a blinding noise. Yes, what is needed today is Wisdom.

      Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge. Wisdom is the ability to fit information into context and avoid trouble. And for some time now, our society has rejected the very idea of context and, therefore, no longer tries to shape wise children. Rather, your kids are being indoctrinated in a poisonous form of ethics that rejects God [the ultimate Context] and Wisdom for a cartoon vision of a perfect world. These ethics are at the very heart of our social blindness and imminent collapse today. Now, I will not hide the ball from you. There seems to be no stopping the collapse of Western civilization. It is far under way. However, you would do well to understand how our culture can pollute your kid’s mind and heart, to learn the hidden messages and ethics they are taught in school, and to turn on the light of Wisdom for yourself and your children.

      This small book will show how Western civilization began to reject the very idea of Context in the higher levels of intellectual study, philosophy and education. And, this created a huge worldview conflict. That conflict divided us into 3 groups: the god-free, the God-fearing and the compromisers—or loving middle people. Over time, the small minority of god-free people have grown much larger and won over the loving middle crowd. This newly combined group claim that they are empathetic and those who oppose them must be either ignorant or manipulative for gain. However, great economic destruction and real physical danger is shaping up under their loving view of progress. Today, the commanding heights of culture are almost completely controlled by these enlightened people: education, media, political, legal and, now, even the military. There is no institution that has remained unaffected by their power. Thus, Western civilization is almost completely directed by the fear-based ethics and confused vision of these people.

      So, let’s learn the basics of this vision and ethics. Let’s see what happened and how we can help our kids.

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE WORLDVIEW CONFLICT

      I can still remember her sad expression wrapped in shiny, blond hair. My sister had just come back from her big date. She was obviously disappointed. Shaking her head, she muttered something about how it was too bad because the guy was really handsome but he didn’t have a clue. I’ll never forget how she summarized it: Some people are looking in the wrong place for the answers…but this guy doesn’t even know what the questions are.

      What did she mean by that? Some of the timeless questions, that nearly everyone will confront, are: Who am I? Is there a God? Is there an afterlife? What is the purpose of life? How you respond to the big questions of life will shape your outlook—your worldview. Then, when a man or woman lives by a particular worldview, we say that is their values.

      Western civilization had a set of values. Originally, our society was built up with a huge majority of its people believing in a Biblical worldview or, you might say, Judeo-Christian values. In the past, so many people held such values that our society became overarched with that spiritual worldview. For example, it’s hard to travel 10 miles in my home state without seeing some reference to a saint like San Francisco or an angel (Los Angeles) or a sacrament (Sacramento) or see a church...etc. Our entire public life was once soaked in religion.

      However, today, the overarching worldview of Western society has gone through an enormous change. There are empty churches scattered throughout Europe. There are declining religions throughout America. Our collective worldview has adjusted to our individual, changing opinions of the big questions in life. We are no longer a united people who would have our common faith shape our public lives. A growing number of us doubt the existence of God or, at least, hold that such beliefs should in no way interfere with public life. Thus, we are a people in a sad conflict. Like my sister and her date, there is a longing for unity but a serious separation over worldview.

      So, the first thing to understand about America is that we are a painfully divided people. Yet, this split did not result when everyone woke up one day and decided there was no god. [A 2015 Pew Research study shows over 70% of Americans are Christian.] Our society did not completely change its answer to the most important question in life—is there a God? Rather, we devalued the question.

      One cause of our division actually began long ago, after the bloody religious wars of Europe in 1648, when Western intellectuals began to formulate an important, new question: How do we fashion a peaceful society from those who believe in God or gods or no god? The question seemed legitimate. However, the question had some bold assumptions.

      It assumed the authority to override eternal faith for the public welfare. It presumed that physical security is the highest, human good. But, most importantly, this developing new, worldview question (How do we fashion a peaceful society from those who believe in God, gods or no god?) already seemed to have answered a far bigger question (Is there a God?) with the answer: That isn’t a priority.

      As this new question (and answer) was restated and redefined in many ways by many great thinkers throughout history, it began to gradually displace most of the other worldview questions in social importance. By the 18th century we were designing governments that would operate as impartial and god-free as possible. Now, by 2016, we have gotten to a point where the fervent, public expression of religion is deemed offensive to many and downright unsafe to more than a few.

      Today, with cell phones and access to all kinds of computer and media systems, it is much easier to simply ignore the big issues of life altogether— to give up trying to find the clarity of an overview. Therefore, many people surrender the peace and joy of seeing how the truths of each day fit into a larger picture. Some simply

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