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"[[Augustus Caesar|Augustus]] was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."<Ref>Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', Chapter 3 </Ref> | "[[Augustus Caesar|Augustus]] was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."<Ref>Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', Chapter 3 </Ref> | ||
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Social bonds
The most significant comment of Dr. Malone in his interview on Joe Rogan[1] was, "We’re sick as a society and we have to heal ourselves. And one of the things we have to do is come together. We have to recreate our social bonds; we have to buy into integrity, the importance of human dignity, and the importance of community. That’s how we get out of this.”
This is what Christ said and even commanded us to seek those bonds he counted as righteousness but the modern Churches seems to have failed to do. We need to all asked what are the righteous bonds of a free society and ask the fundamental questions good and bad social bonds. What works and what does not and why?
Coming to terms
Social bonding is the manner and degree to which an individual is integrated into society and connected to the functional elements and institutions of society.
Social bonds existed since ancient times and in every culture. Social bonds are social relationships which accumulate as "social capital" to strengthen and enrich societies.
The meaning of Social capital is dependent upon the values held by individuals and the means by which social networks are established. Societies may bond through varying processes and combinations of cultural interaction based on similar social virtues or vices. Social virtue is said to be " morally good behavior or character" of individuals which produce "the good result" in society which is needed to sustain healthy individuals from "generation to generation".
The "Social Bond Theory" is also known as "social control theory".[2] Seeing social bonds as a product of relations within society was being theorized based on the assumption that individuals are inherently self-interested and therefore assumes that some people will refrain from activities that harm others (criminal) within society for fear of injuring or losing those relationships within society.
This approach of condemning "self-interest" made all people guilty of a social sin against society until they proved their innocence. The truth is "self-interest" is a primary value not a weakness. Without it their is no endeavor, no pillar upon which goals of virtue and enterprise may stand. More important, without the presence of "self-interest" their can be no tempering of the soul with compassion and mercy. Without "self-interest" and the love of self there can be no loving your neighbor as yourself.[3]
By the 1960, if not long before, the idea of controlling society was a lot more appealing to some than to setting society free. The "self-interest" of the individual was not a sin against society but a sin against the collective.
American society had been moving quickly toward socialism where the the individuals property and personal means of production were more and more in the control of government. In socialism eventually the people become so weak and degenerated the more aggressive creatures with greater appetites seize control from a degenerating population and like in the Paradise policies of John Calhoun or the collective Masses of Polybius society collapses in chaos.
The primary unit for leveraging most social bonds within society. The sexual revolution centered in the 1960 drove a dagger in the heart of the family. there was already the plague amongst society spread by the apostasy of the modern Church and false religion which had crept into society[4] which literally returned the people to the Bondage of Egypt.[5]
The pervasive practices of uncommitted sexual relationships are known to precipitate low self-esteem, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, divorce, and single parent families. It was a major contributing factor to the fall of Rome.
Without the family social capital articulation of social bonds and the transmission of values to the next generation declines and with that a decline in overall Social capital.
Social capital theory contends that social relationships are resources that can lead to the development and accumulation of human capital.The term social capital can only be defined as any reproductive long term benefit of a social relationship which enhances the fruitfulness and health of society.
Gibbon knew that Romans under the Antoninian emperors were forced to console themselves with “image of liberty” and free bread of the Romana welfare State. He also knew that the once great republic had devolved into "an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed."
The Caesars like FDR and LBJ among other presidents and politicians knew that great swelling words[6] of liberty from the responsibilities of humility and service, and "pure Religion" which builds the social bonds and capital of a free people.
"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."[7]
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Footnotes
- ↑ https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT at 2:39 to 2:43 Mattias Desmet's Mass Formation Psychosis
- ↑ "Social Bond Theory" was developed by American criminologist Travis Hirschi in the late 1960s, and is sometimes referred to as social control theory.
- ↑ Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
- Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.
- Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
- Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Matthew 22:39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Mark 12:31 And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
- Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- ↑ Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- ↑ Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 3