THE KENNEDY LEGACY

The passing of Ted Kennedy will elicit commentary from all the media regardless of their political persuasion for he lived in the public eye in many ways and for a long time. I am offering here my views as well.

As a human being he is my brother and whatever shortcomings he may have had they represented the karma that he had to work out on his journey of spiritual unfoldment. All men and women have their imperfections yet receive God’s love. They are worthy of the love of their fellow man as well. No one wants to be remembered for his failings. I wish Ted Kennedy well wherever he is.

Having said that, I feel that a person of prominence in society needs to be held to a higher standard than the ordinary citizen. He is remembered not as a person but for the position of prominence he held. During World War II General Eisenhower had an affair with his secretary when he was stationed in England as the head of the European Theater of Operations. He decided he would divorce Mamie and marry his secretary. When he told General Marshal of his plans his response was, “You’re a general; generals don’t get divorced.” That was the end of the matter. Ike and Mamie stayed married until death did them part. Positions of prominence had standards of conduct and living that accompanied them.

Senator Kennedy had more than a position of prominence; he was an elected official. People who run for office ask to be judged; it’s the basis of their being elected. Some will say that elected officials should be judged on the issues and not on personal matters. Issues focus on material accomplishment in one way or another whereas personal matters reflect character and morals derived from ethics.

Material considerations have come to matter most in our country. Richard L. Block, the last Chairman of Inland Steel Corp stated in a magazine article that corporations over-emphasize the importance of personal integrity in the hiring of executives. He indicated that companies can be insured to cover embezzlement but they can’t get insurance on incompetence. I guess the boys at Enron took Block’s message to heart. Inland Steel isn’t around anymore either. Nevertheless, the post World War II thinking of focusing on material accomplishment in lieu of moral behavior took root and flourished. The Kennedys—and Ted Kennedy in particular—personified this thinking.

Harvard University expelled Ted Kennedy for cheating on an exam. He had a friend take a test in Spanish in his name. Harvard later reinstated Ted probably in part because of the power represented by the immense wealth of Joe Kennedy. When each of his children reached adulthood they were given an annual “allowance” of 10 million dollars; even for rich people that was a lot of money 50 years ago

Aside from the blemish on his record caused by being caught cheating, and the negative comparisons to his over-achieving brothers, Ted Kennedy was an active collegian participating in sports and in various extra curricular matters. He played a big part in the campaign to get his brother John elected president and was a worthy campaigner and won handily when he ran for the Senate. However, matters of morals and ethics would plague him all of his life.

The Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy resulted in a suspension of his driver’s license. If that incident had happened to the average person there would have been a jury trail. Again the Kennedy fortune came to the rescue and quashed any legal activity against him in addition to making a multi-million dollar settlement with Mary Jo’s parents.

Frequently such incidents can awaken in a man the realization of the error of his ways and cause him to start life anew. This did not happen to Ted Kennedy, whose womanizing continued unabated and whose drinking bordered on alcoholism.

His sexual conduct represented the norm of the Kennedys. President Jack had two women on the government payroll whose primary purpose was to satisfy his sexual desires. He shocked Prime Minister Macmillan of England at a meeting by saying “Unless I get it every day I get a headache.” It was no secret that President Jack and his brother Robert both had trysts with Marilyn Monroe.

Marital fidelity did not exist in the Kennedy compound. Nor did ethics. The Kennedys represented a new era in American thought; it focused on materiality and self-indulgence. It symbolized a disregard for convention, tradition, and the social mores necessary to maintain the moral standards of society.

The Kennedy power and influence set the stage for Great Society Legislation, which Ted Kennedy strongly supported. The sum total of the effects of the legislation of the past 50 years has been a worsening in the conditions that it was designed to improve.

I will briefly address two pieces of such legislation. The first, called Civil Rights Legislation was ostensibly designed to give African-Americans an equal playing field in the attainment of the rewards of the American way of life. By including women’s rights in this legislation it served as a means of emasculating the male and increasing government power.

After 400 years of slavery and segregation the unwed motherhood rate of African-Americans reached 25%, a remarkably low figure and a testament to the inherent extended family culture in their society. After only 40 years of Great Society legislation the rate of unwed motherhood reached 70% and in some pockets such as Harlem it reached 90%. Harlem serves as an example of the de facto matriarchy that results from the emasculation of the male. Nothing happens in Harlem without government intervention either overtly or covertly; a condition that cannot be considered progress for the African-American.

The second piece of legislation, known as Title IX calls for equal opportunity in education regardless of gender differences. The interpretation of this law considered males and females to be identical, a viewpoint contrary to even a rudimentary understanding of the purpose and function of gender. Boys and girls and men and women were put in the same classrooms and given the same instruction, which resulted in a drop in academic performance, unprecedented sexual activity, and an explosion in the rate of teenage pregnancies and unwed motherhood at all age levels.

Every societal problem that existed at the beginning of the Kennedy era has gotten worse. Every one! The absence of ethics causes degeneracy; it cannot be otherwise.

Ethics comes from men—those men who understand their purpose of propagating and preserving the species on its infinite spiritual journey. There is no other place for ethics to come from. The government, its money, power and laws cannot provide a viable substitute for ethics.

In the 50 years since the beginning of the Kennedy era the Kennedys and their contemporaries have not changed with the exception that they now own more of America. They still live the same materialistic immoral lifestyle. America has changed. Its moral fiber has been destroyed and it now lives the same debaucherous lifestyle popularized by the Kennedys.

This lifestyle has among other things created a national loneliness. Allowing that some men feel the inherent desire to make multiple matings with the herd, the overwhelming reason for womanizing stems from the loneliness caused by an inadequate home life during childhood. Whether in the compound at Hyannisport or in the inner city ghettos, money and power cannot provide the love that all humans require to function properly. Ted Kennedy was a lonely man. He did not know love, nor did his brothers.

The Kennedy era represented lonely men and confused women, which created a national angst that no amount of materialistic manipulation could remedy. The Kennedys did not create this era; they were symptoms of it. They represented the sum total of the collective consciousness of America. The passing of the Kennedy era is the passing of that consciousness.

A new consciousness is developing in America and in the Western world, which will become manifest in the next decade. It will understand that the natural patriarchal structure enables men to provide the environment and means for women to being forth life and nurture it.

E.G.

THE HUMAN JACKASS ERA

American history, like all history is punctuated with eras signifying personalities, ideas, and practices that define the times. It has had the Reagan era and the Johnson era, the Clipper ship era and the Railroad era. It also had the era of the Horse Soldier, which made possible the conquest of the plains Indians and added to the lore of their famous Chiefs.

America and the entire Western world has moved into the Human Jackass era.

A jackass is usually kept in a barn overnight and in the morning the farmer brings it hay to eat before commencing the day’s work. The farmer provides the on the job training for the jackass, which tends to learn rapidly and becomes a reliable worker, often without use of a tether. If the animal is injured or sick the farmer provides for its healing and when necessary will call upon the services of a veterinary. The jackass normally does not mate unless the farmer brings in a she-ass for that purpose. After mating the farmer decides what to do with the offspring. Life is fairly simple for the jackass; the farmer provides for its every need—as long as it works.

Western man now lives the life of a jackass. He has been stripped of all his natural male authority, which has resulted in the demise of the family and reduced his function to that of doing the work that some higher authority dictates. He receives medical care in a form and degree dictated by the government. The state provides for his education, which in one way or another consists of vocational training. When he does mate the state takes over the care and training of his child.

Western woman, once revered for being a devoted wife and nurturing mother has been stripped of her prestigious position due to the elimination of the family. What is she to do? The government has told her not to worry that she has a right to do the same work as the men, and as verification of this right she will be given diplomas, licenses, and college degrees all of which serve as she-ass certificates that will enable her to do work similar to that of men. She-asses now toil on the treadmill of production as equals to the jackasses.

There are many people who like this beast of burden arrangement. They clamor for universal healthcare so that they will no longer have the responsibility of taking care of their bodies; they clamor for aid to education so that they will not have to prepare for their future; and they clamor for surveillance cameras and security police in an attempt to develop the safe environment once provided by men.

Many she-asses are content to have the state feed, educate, and provide healthcare for their offspring, which gives it the opportunity to indoctrinate them and thus proliferate the number of people who accept the jackass way of living. By the time state-reared children reach adulthood they look upon government as the source of all things and are quite content to become beasts of burden and let the state provide for all their necessities.

The human jackasses, not having families to care for them must rely upon government care when they can no longer pull their loads. Government provides retirement plans of various sorts and social security to help the aged, but eventually the effectiveness of these plans diminishes due to the erosive effect of government created inflation. No longer able to sustain themselves the aged are put in government housing and fed canned and packaged meals that have very little life-force in them. The aged develop reactions to the poor quality of nutrition, which the government treats with medicinal drugs. Eventually these aged bodies can no longer cope with the toxemia of poor diet and pharmaceutical products and they develop “incurable” illnesses attributed to their age. Since families have been eliminated, the government makes the life and death decisions for the aged.

The jackass era has no culture for it was stripped of any traditional practices relating to the propagation and preservation of the species as part of its training for the workplace. Entertainment has become strictly sensation in one form of licentiousness and debauchery or another. These escape mechanisms provide only short-term relief from the boredom and un-natural life of being a jackass or she-ass.

All is not well in the human jackass community. Ten percent of the she-asses in America and 15% of those in Europe suffer from debilitating depression They are slowly learning that the government is not a good substitute man and/or husband. Mental illness has become the number one health issue in the English-speaking world. Some jackasses have begun to chafe in their stalls as they become increasingly dissatisfied with their un-natural environment.

Eventually the more enlightened of the jackasses will look into the mirror and see that they created their environment by buying into the materialism of Western thought. The indwelling spirit causes a realization in each one that life consists of more than the acquisition of things. It awakens him to the higher purpose of spiritual growth and the importance of the propagation and preservation of the species. He comes to the realization that to consider those with testis and those with teats as being the same reflects asinine thinking and it was only natural that he began to live the life of the jackass as a consequence.

Realizing his responsibility for his present situation he becomes aware that he also has the power to alter it by changing his thinking and having the courage to live out those changes.

Some believe a new spiritual era will be ushered in by divine intervention. Such thought—the expectation that some other force will take care of things—is part of the passive feminine thinking that led to the jackass era and the institutionalization of human beings. The universe is designed to operate in a certain manner. What is in harmony with the universe endures, what isn’t doesn’t. The society created by Western thought is an aberration and is imploding. When it collapses the “opportunity” will be there for men of courage and spiritual insight to start rebuilding a more natural society.

Change begins with the individual and societal change requires the cooperation of others. Like-minded men working together will break free of jackass thinking. They will unhook women from the treadmill of production and return them to an environment focused on the family that will permit them to fulfill their natural purpose of bringing life into the world and nurturing it. These few men will be known as the rebuilders and in the words of Isaiah they will rebuild on the old foundations. They will realize that the propagation and preservation of the species is the highest material calling on the journey of spiritual unfoldment and that patriarchy provides the structure that enables the establishment and support of the extended family.

The time is at hand for those men and women of insight and courage to rid themselves of the jackass mentality, get off the treadmill of production, and start living the lives that they were ordained to live.

It is time to spread the word of another way of life, which can be done by sending this essay to newspapers, magazines and various organizations that have an interest in family and personal accountability. You can invest in the various information materials offered by Men’s Action and distribute them to friends, family, and associates. You can subscribe to the Men’s Action website and to its videos on youtube. No one is going to make the change for you. You and like-minded people working together can provide the change that all of humankind is thirsting for. Now is the time to start.

E.G.

SARAH PALIN AND THE RULING ARISTOCRACY

My readers know that I steer clear of politics in my essays and that I do not believe in having women in governmental positions. You might then wonder why I again devote an Essay to Sarah Palin. The first essay appeared on September 24, 2008 under the title Why Sweat Palin, which I recommend that you review when you finish reading this essay.

All aspects of the media have exhibited a frenzy of activity since the announcement that Governor Sarah Palin would not finish her term in office. She has been the butt of jokes by television comedians, news analysts, talk-show hosts, columnists, and bloggers. This essay will address why this woman unheard of by 99% of Americans a year ago, has garnered such national attention, and its relevancy to the issues facing Western society.

I watched the ceremony held in Fairbanks, Alaska on the day that Palin stepped down and a new governor was sworn in. It looked like a small local event, as one would expect to see held for den mothers of a cub-scout troop. It appeared that no more than 35 spectators attended.

The same week that I watched Sarah Palin give her farewell speech I also watched Ambassador Hillary Clinton interviewed on Meet the press. These two events clearly illustrated the stark differences between these two women, what and whom they represent, and more importantly how they are perceived.

Hillary Clinton has advanced degrees from prestigious schools and as the former First Lady, then Senator, and now Secretary of State, has become a fixture in the elite Washington political establishment.

Sarah Palin on the other hand, went to a few small town colleges before graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho. She is in essence a “country girl” who did modestly well in business and politics in a rural state. As the Vice-presidential candidate she was on the losing end of the last election and she has stepped down from her governorship.

Why then does the media devote so much time and space to her? Why do they debase her at every opportunity? Can she possibly be a threat to the existing power structure? Before answering that question let’s take a look at what constitutes the power structure of the United States.

A moneyed class of eastern educated people made up of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, and nominal Christians and Jews comprise the ruling aristocracy of the United States. Some of the powerful names in this establishment are the Rockefellers, Kennedys, and Bushes. They visit one another, are friends and have many intimacies between them. These people constitute the eastern establishment and they rule America.

In theory America is built upon a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” which represents the thinking of the Jeffersonian wing of the Founding Fathers of the Constitution; however, in fact we have the Hamiltonian government of “the rich well-born and able.” It is natural that the Hamiltonian practice should prevail for aristocratic structures are intrinsic to Western thought. Everywhere that Western thought has prevailed aristocracies have been established. Apartheid in Africa and segregation in America are two of the more blatant examples of the Western aristocratic nature. The Founding Fathers were aristocrats; they had contempt for Asians and Africans. They owned slaves and indentured servants.

The nature of aristocracies is that they create among themselves more aristocracies in order to become more exclusive. In America we have educational, legal, scientific, and medical aristocracies that answer to the ruling aristocracy of the eastern establishment. The nature of aristocracies is that they think they know what is best for the people outside of the aristocracies. Usually there is no one on the outside represented on the inside, and herein lies the appeal to Palin and the threat to the ruling establishment.

Sarah Palin speaks for simple folk, who believe in family, god, accountability and self-sufficiency. When have you last heard these values addressed politically? In the recent presidential campaigns neither party even mentioned family in their platforms; there wasn’t any mention of God either. Regarding accountability—we live in the era of the victim psyche—everyone is a victim of something and therefore not accountable for their actions. Regarding self-sufficiency, the ruling aristocracy does everything in its power to stifle that quality. It wants people to be on the dole so that they will become completely dependent upon the government.

Sarah Palin reflects the values of not only many Alaskans, but of those who live in the mountain states, and many of the rural areas of America. The Pennsylvania blue-collar worker who looks forward to hunting season; the shrimp boat operator on the Gulf coast; the dairy farmer in New York, and the citrus grower in Florida identify with the Palin message, as do the many middle-class wives and mothers all over America. In an article about Palin in Newsweek Roger Stone the consultant was quoted as saying of Palin, “Like Nixon, 20 percent of the country will be with her forever.” The ruling aristocracy shudders upon hearing those figures.

The concern of the establishment is not that Palin has the potential to be another Nixon or the ability to rally the troops, groom herself for the presidency, or even revitalize the Republicans. The Republicans are not worth revitalizing. As said earlier, they are part of the ruling aristocracy. They controlled the presidency, and both houses of Congress and showed that they could outspend the Democrats and foster the greed, fraud, and general corruption of Wall Street. There is no viable organization that can pose a threat to those in power. The concern of the ruling aristocracy has to do with the potential discontent among the ruled that the tens of millions of people who identify with Palin’s message can create.

The entire Western world from the westernmost part of the Aleutians east to the Caucuses is tightening its grip on the populace and the people have begun to instinctively feel the noose of government control around their necks. This is especially true in the United States where Sarah Palin unknowingly is awakening the people to the encroaching evil. There are those who are against what this administration is doing, but they will not prevail. Being against something is never enough to bring about change. We are witnessing the final stages of the demise of Western society because of its feminine, materialistic, passive, and impotent thinking. Absolute government control is close at hand, and that will be followed by its demise.

Those who survive will one way or another come to the understanding that patriarchy is the natural way of life that will sustain their survival. Men’s Action provides the seeds that will enable the living of that life. You can take advantage of this information now and start living the way you were intended to instead of waiting until you are forced to, and then under very difficult circumstances.

The clock is running out my brothers and sisters, my sons and daughters. It’s time for you to act and get involved and support Men’s Action to Rebuild Society. Don’t wait until the aristocracy has got you in its vise.

E.G.