This statement is precisely why arguments for porn appall me. I’ve seen several discussions on other LDS blogs really debating if porn is all that bad. And I just want to scream at them because they are totally missing the point.

But we have too many in education who consider themselves “educators” and “educationalists” who are not teachers, who are PC-liberal-progressive pinheads who’ve now churned out more than a generation of pc-liberal-progressive pinheads since 1980.

The system mainly consists of educated idiots (the administrators) who’ve churned out UN-educated idiots who only THINK they’re educated, when in fact they’ve only been indoctrinated and trained. And of the actual _educated_ graduates that they’ve churned out, their education is tainted with the pc-progressive world-view and baggage.

Due to the idiots who are in positions of administration and ‘curriculum development’ and all that, I have to conclude that the inmates are running the asylum, and that most public schools and public school boards are part of the problem.

I’ve dealt with a big-city public school. I been exposed to the “educationalist” mind-set that has in effect ‘dumbed down’ both the scholastic education of students (patronizingly lower expectations), worked to lower societal values (tolerating antisocial behavior), and worked to destroy families (forced cross-district busing which keeps parents from being involved with the school).

Here in Indianapolis they ought to totally deconstruct the system and rebuild it from scratch.

But the problem is that the school boards (which control the school administation/administrators) are publicly elected. And the electorate is now PC-progressive-brainwashed, meaning the board will be PC-progressive, meaning the school system administration will be PC-progressive, and meaning both the curriculum and the societal microcosm in the school will be PC-progressive.

And the news media and entertainment industry do their best to keep the post-school electorate pc-progressive-brainwashed, so I don’t see a solution to the “cycles of stupidity” (that we’ve suffered with Carter, Clinton, and Obama) until clear-thinking and socially responsible people (ie, “grown ups”) who can analyze the trends of the past generations, learn from the mistakes, and extrapolate it to the future generation, can take back the educational establishment (ie, the thousands of school boards/administrations and college/university trustees/administrations).

From what I’ve seen since I graduated high school in the 1970′s, I’d call the overall trend “margin creep”.

Although the header is about gay marriage, read this essay on “Margin Creep”,
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005244.html

Look at the specific sub-topic of teenage pregnancy in that essay, and think how that relates to the changes in how teenage pregnancy has been dealt with in high schools over the page 30 years.

Don’t look at the present _snapshot_ of how things are in schools now. Look at the slow _changes_, the “deltas” of the last 30 years. Compare 1980 with 2010.

Actually, you can trace current trends of PC-progressivism back to the early 1960′s, the pre-hippie “Beat Generation”. It took about a generation to ramp up and sink in, and now it’s been a 2nd generation with it in full effect. How’s it doing? How has the percentage of drug-use, premarital sex, pornography consumption, abortion, illegitimate births, divorce, family stability, etc, etc, trended since then?

We’re much more compassionate towards the poor unwed mother these days than in the early 1960′s. But while being rightly compassionate to individuals, we’ve taken our sight off of and lost the battle against illegitimacy in the aggregate. (Which harkens to the referenced essay on margin creep. Instead of being warned off of premarital sex, the next ‘marginal’ girl – and boy – look forward to getting their ration of “compassion.”)

While having compassion for those who’ve made bad choices, we’ve taken our eyes off of and ignored the bigger picture, and overall trends, and have effectively declared that the bad choices are no longer bad.

Isn’t one of President Monson’s refrains “first pity, then endure, then embrace”? Man, how prophetic! Pick any of the social or societal ills that have skyrocketed since the 1960′s, and that is exactly what has happened. (pre-marital sex, abortion, divorce, infidelity, pornography, homosexuality, etc.)

First it will be porn, then it will be “hate speech”, and then Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will be put in the “hate speech” column.

Youtube videos of people using legal and legally-owned large caliber firearms to blow up watermelons will be classified as “violent”.

Even some trailers of “Glee” in Internet news stories indicate that what I would consider pornography appear on that show. But apparently, if it passes for network prime-time, the majority don’t consider it porn.

Knowing how to implement a technological solution for preventing porn from coming into your family’s home network is a parenting skill that didn’t exist a generation ago, but is essential now. And just because many parents are failing to keep up, doesn’t mean that we should go running to the government to take over our jobs.

Note: the debate is centered around whether or not there exist scientific evidence to indicate that pornography harms children.

I fear for our children in a society where “scientific evidence” would be required to prove that porn harms children.

We are no longer a child-centered society. Children are now viewed as incidental and often inconvenient.

And that is a recipe for civilizational collapse.

Its not either/or. Without boundary maintenance, the core dissipates.

Achieving this will work better than censorship or regulation, though it comes with its own challenging terrain.