Don’t ever say, “It will never happen here.” As bizarre as the following is, the rudiments of this new law are already operating in principle in the United States:
North Korea has initiated a harsh crackdown on women suspected of having “capitalist” breast implants, labelling such cosmetic procedures as “un-socialist” and “bourgeois”, The Telegraph reported. The country’s security services are conducting invasive checks, with neighbourhood watch leaders tasked to identify women with noticeable changes in their bodies and report them for examinations.
In North Korea, a regime led by Kim Jong Un, breast augmentation and double-eyelid surgery are deemed “non-socialist acts” and are illegal. Those found guilty face severe penalties.
The new plans were announced as a doctor and two women in their 20s faced a public trial in Sariwon’s cultural hall for undergoing illegal breast surgeries. The doctor apparently had little medical experience and dropped out of medical school before completing his surgery program.
The last thing young people want to hear from their elders is, “Well, in my day. . .” Even so, it needs to be said that any young person today who needs a “safe space,” a crying room, and canceled classes because of some bad news needs to grow up. If there’s no crying in baseball, there’s also no crying in the day-to-day efforts to become mature adults.
Thinking Straight in a Crooked World
The nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man" is an appropriate description of how sin affects us and our world. We live in a crooked world of ideas evaluated by crooked people. Left to our crooked nature, we can never fully understand what God has planned for us and His world. God has not left us without a corrective solution. He has given us a reliable reference point in the Bible so we can identify the crookedness and straighten it.
Buy NowYoung people need to learn how to cope with loss and use it as a teaching moment for future success. Assuming the fetal position every time something does not go well accomplishes nothing. Being squeezed out of your mother’s birth canal is the first lesson on what life’s going to be like. Get used to it!
The following from the 2020 election is just plain pitiful: “Democratic staffers were so upset over the popular election of President Elect Donald Trump that ‘therapy dogs’ were brought into the U.S. Capitol to soothe their hurt feelings.” (Breitbart) Nashville school district officials provided their counselors with “special post-election protocols” to help students in the aftermath of the presidential election.
What happened to these kids? Did it all start when dodgeball was banned from PE and “participation trophies” were given to children so they would not have their feelings hurt because some people won and others lost?
James Harrison, a former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, posted the following on Instagram after his children came home with trophies:
“I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for nothing, participation trophies! While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they EARN a real trophy. I’m not sorry for believing that everything in life should be earned, and I’m not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best … cause sometimes your best is not enough, and that should drive you to want to do better … not cry and whine until somebody gives you something to shut u up and keep you happy.”
One of the best lines from the animated feature The Incredibles neatly sums up the Participation-Trophy Generation and the perpetrators of false equality: “If everyone is special, it means no one is special.” There’s this from the character ‘Syndrome.’
“I’ll give them heroics. I’ll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone’s ever seen! And when I’m old and I’ve had my fun, I’ll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super! And when everyone’s super… no one will be.”
Talk to anyone who’s gotten to the top in any field, and they will tell you that there’s a lot of failure and disappointment along the way. Thomas Edison (1847-1931) held more than 1000 patents. His teachers told him that he was “addled” and was “too stupid to learn anything.” His many failures ultimately led to great success because he never gave up. He failed more than he succeeded. Edison had no formal higher education and was nearly deaf.
Losing isn’t fun, but it’s not the end of the world. Young people are being taught that sameness is the key to a peaceful social order, while simultaneously being told to celebrate diversity. It makes no sense.
It’s time that we read J.P. Hartley’s 1960 novel Facial Justice “that depicts a post-apocalyptic society that has sought to banish privilege and envy, to the extent that people will even have their faces surgically altered in order to appear neither too beautiful nor too ugly.” The main character is named Jael (Judges 4:17-21).
Restoring the Foundation of Civilization
There are many Christians who will not participate in civilization-building efforts that include economics, journalism, politics, education, and science because they believe (or have been taught to believe) these areas of thought are outside the realm of what constitutes a Christian worldview. Nothing could be further from the truth
Buy NowOur government is implementing a similar approach with its tax policy. Some people have an A face income, while others have B and C face incomes. To make people more equal, the A and B face incomes will have to be made plainer. That will mean taxing some people at a higher rate to make incomes more equal.
“Privilege,” even “white privilege,” is the new Leftist meme. A privileged person has an unfair advantage; therefore, the government should mitigate the unevenness through legislation by penalizing those with the advantage and subsidizing those without it. Will white people be forced to undergo chemical darkening?
The following story could lead to a form of Facial Justice:
Studies have shown that attractive people are usually hired sooner, get promotions more quickly, and are paid more than their less-attractive coworkers.
Attractive people earn an average of 3 or 4 percent more than people with below-average looks, according to Daniel Hamermesh, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the book “Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful.”
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Hamermesh … believes that it’s not just the sex appeal that makes attractive people more successful. He writes that attractive people tend to have desirable personality traits, like higher self-confidence—likely a direct result of their good looks—that appeal to employers. (Business Insider)
Will less attractive people demand plastic surgery and/or equalized compensation in the job market? Will the State prohibit attractive people from marrying one another? Will an A face be forced to marry a C face? Will basketball teams be forced to develop teams based on average heights and football teams based on average weights?
Justice in the hands of justice warriors seeking parity in all things will lead only to tyranny.