BEING NON-JUDGMENTAL ENCOURAGES FANTASY, DEVIANCE AND HEDONISM

BEING NON- JUDGMENTAL ENCOURAGES FANTASY, DEVIANCE AND HEDONISM

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

In 1957 Author Norman Mailer wrote, “White Negroes” and essay about encouraging the rebellious youth movement that led to the 1960s Counter Culture Revolution. “The only life giving answer is to divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set on that uncharted journey with the rebellious imperatives of the self…One is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a Square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society… Whether the life is criminal or not, the decision is to encourage the psychopath within oneself.”

Along with Mailer, Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, and Rock and Roll stars young people were encouraged to do anti social acts. Today we see the same influence by primitive, ignorant and insane thinking radicals to turn our moral values upsidedown.  

When everyone is equal regardless of a person’s past deeds, beliefs and anti-social  behavior, virtues will lose their attractiveness and will rarely be practiced. The pathological liar should not suffer any consequences for his actions in a non-judgmental culture. Presently this is what is taking place in our culture. Fantasy, deviance and hedonism are being glorified. The celebration of these behaviors by Hollywood and the media promotes and expands it.

Tolerating immoral behavior leads to more immoral behavior. You can do anything you want without any concern for consequences: anything goes. The dregs of society are given a pass. Overtime it will encourage them to repeat anti-social behavior. Instead of having to fear any stigma they are often considered chic or “cool” by our media. Pimps and drug pushers are venerated today in our popular hip hop culture. These current cultural icons have impacted a large segment of our younger and even some of the older population. Even when these non-judgmental people learn of the horrendous lifestyles and hideous deaths of these low lives, they are being glorified in the media.

Most Americans have been indoctrinated to believe there is not a connection between past behavior and future outcome. Our youth have lived in this non-judgmental culture all their lives. Peoples’past behavior with authority figures has taught them not to make negative comments towards these protected groups.    

On the other side of the equation, those honorable people who worked hard to establish an impeccable, honest and solid reputation are treated in a hostile manner compared to these scoundrels. The decent humans have moral values that teach them to be honest not to pretend to be something they are not. However, they are considered mean spirited, dull Neanderthals for pointing out the natural consequences for living a fantasy- immoral life.

It would be ludicrous to put a known male rapist working with young girls, or a thief in a bank handling money. We should treat people according to what they have accomplished and how they have lived their lives. Character does matter.  A person who always does what he says he should be treated with more respect than a person who is a cheat, drug addict or bum. An individual who avoids any form of work should be treated less positively than a person who is industrious, and always does the best he can.

Criminals have usually committed many more illegal acts than those for which they were convicted. The arrests are only a small tip of the iceberg in their self-centered control of others for their own benefit. Criminals have no empathy for their victims or remorse for their actions. When society does not punish this behavior it puts the innocent in jeopardy of being another innocent victim.

We learn from life when we are accurate observers of what is unfolding in front of our eyes. When we witness a person’s behavior and then see the actual consequences of it we have to reject the incident to remain non-judgmental. Some people even wear shirts that say “only God can judge me.” The reality is people constantly judge each other. It is natural and normal. It is unnatural for a person not to think about and judge the behavior of others.

Reality is impossible to dismiss even when people possess strong fantasy convictions. Only through heavy doses of political correctness and thought control can a person attempt to deny or shut down their memory of events in the first place. Being judgmental is a powerfully normal and self-preservation instinct to survive and avoid suffering.

Our progressive culture attempts to impose being non-judgmental is a counter productive policy that is weakening our moral values, unity and vigor as a nation. Instead we should highlight the impact of negative and positive behaviors to show the difference. Without value judgments we are destined to fail as a nation. Vibrant civilizations are strongly united in purpose. They do not encourage persons to seek deviancy, fantasy and incessant pleasure. This ends in decadency, delusion and chaos.

When a majority of citizens are virtuous, the rest of the people are influenced to move towards a more predictable, decent and productive life. The opposite is true when people are non-judgmental: anything goes.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.