Robert Hale’s recent statement that the “... anti-abortion movement is
no longer a movement. It’s an industry.”-made me think of a Crisis
Pregnancy Center that contradicted his statement. About two years ago, I
spoke with its Texan Director who has saved thousands of unborn babies.
We spoke of a “Crisis Pregnancy Center” whose top priority-to put it
mildly- was not saving as many babies as possible. He said stay away
from that center because they are “spiritual masturbators.”
I
love new word combinations, so I researched it to see where it would
take me. I found masturbation to be a good metaphor for the spiritual
direction our society is taking.
“The ultimate direction of masturbation always has to be insanity” Norman Mailer said.
”
If one has, for example, the image of a beautiful sexy babe in
masturbation, one still doesn’t know whether one can make love to her in
the flesh. All you know is that you can violate her in the brain...But,
if one has fought the good or evil fight and ended with the beautiful
sexy dame...One has something real to build on.”
Masturbation -as
the pornography industry knows -is a profitable lie. For example, if
one verbally lies about having sex with a porno star it is a lie. If one
imagines having sex with a porno star it is still an untruth. The
imagination is used to reach unreality.
On the other hand, the
imagination can be used to reach into deep reality. As philosopher Edith
Stein showed- truth can be found using the phenomena of the
imagination. As Thomas Aquinas, also, demonstrated the mind can grasp
the realities of love, truth and God using the phenomena of the
imagination and reason.
One only need read Shakespeare or G .K.
Chesterton to see the imagination grasping deep truths. Chesterton here
shows how the reason and imagination can work together to reveal the
philosophical reality of being or Ens:
“A brilliant Victorian
scientist delighted in declaring that the child does not see any grass
at all; but only a sort of green mist reflected in a tiny mirror of the
human eye. This piece of rationalism has always struck me as almost
insanely irrational. If he is not sure of the existence of the grass,
which he sees through the glass of a window, how on earth can he be sure
of the existence of the retina, which he sees through the glass of a
microscope... the child is aware of Ens [being]. Long before he knows
that grass is grass, or self is self, he knows that something is
something. Perhaps it would be best to say very emphatically (with a
blow on the table), There is an Is.”
The masturbator who imagines
he is with the porno star is in is not. His body and imagination are
moving or as moderns would say progressing, but not in the direction of
reality.
He is living in what Professor Allan Bloom, writer of
the Closing of the American Mind, called the only “self-evident” truth
in modern America- the denial of truth. According to the Professor, the
only virtue -50 years of public education -has achieved is relativity of
truth. Bloom said relativism “is the modern replacement for the
inalienable natural rights that used to be the traditional ground for a
free society.”In other words, once one moves away from objective truth
then universal rights will be replaced by raw power. Bloom, for example,
showed how the old civil rights movement “relied on the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution.” But, the new Black Power movement
considering the Constitution “corrupt” demanded a “black identity, not
universal rights. Not rights but power counted.”
Once again,
Norman Mailer shows how moving away from natural objective truths such
as heterosexuality can lead to debased power struggles:
“ So,
yes q [homosexuals] in prison strive to become part of the male
population, and indeed - it is the irony of homosexuality - try to take
on the masculine powers of the man who enters them, even as the studs,
if Genet is our accurate guide, become effeminate over the years. For
reminds us: homosexuality is not heterosexuality. There is no conception
possible, no, no inner space, no damnable spongy pool of a womb...no
hint remains of the awe that a life in these circumstances can be
conceived. Heterosexual sex with contraception is become by this logic a
form of sexual currency closer to the homosexual than the heterosexual,
a clearinghouse for power, a market for psychic power in which the
stronger will use the weaker, and the female in the act, whether
possessed of a vagina or phallus, will look to ingest or steal the
masculine qualities of the dominator.”
This is the end result
when universal truths and responsibility toward those truths are denied.
The only “currency” left is stealing of power. If our society will not
tolerate truth calling it intolerance; then sex will not be about
married love, but masturbation and power struggles. Leaving our society
progressing towards the unreality of a madhouse and the power struggles
of a prison.
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