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To find what’s right we must be willing to be wrong. If not, we start to lie.
Lying becomes easier when it is accepted by others because they, too, are trying to escape responsibility.
Some lies become popular.
Thus populie.
Once they become populie, they are picked up by the three forces at work in our society, which mold the thinking of the congregated citizenry:
- Politics
- Religion
- Entertainment
Although I am a firm believer in unity, the ideas that bring us together must have a purity which recognizes some form of eternal truth instead of taking the temperature of the air and assessing the direction of the blowing of the present social winds. If we don’t choose to be careful about our pursuits, then gradually we can deteriorate civil rights, human relationships, personal value and “soul” significance.
America is addicted to populie. We depend on plurality to determine our acceptability. If we find ourselves in the minority, we quickly change our opinion to become acceptable, for fear of being considered ignorant and out-of-step.
But you must understand, I have an abiding mistrust of politics, religion and entertainment. Over the years, they have been agents for the types of tradition that maintain stupidity in the name of compromise and peacefulness.
Perhaps one of the greatest populie going on today is the concept that men and women are natural enemies.
Politics promotes this because it grants us a male-dominated system which can characterize women as being “too emotional for leadership.”
Religion adopts it quickly because it fosters female submission and creates a scapegoat for men by blaming Eve and all her sisterhood for original sin.
And entertainment embraces the concept because it is a cheap way to derive human slapstick for their comedies and pathos for their dramas.
Fortunately, reason, common sense and the true spirit of God reject this populie and insist that we work together in the common cause of our humanity. For after all, God did not give different jobs to Adam and to Eve. There is no gospel for women and another for men. And John 3:16 does not read, “For God so loved men that he gave his only begotten son…”
Just because it’s popular does not make a lie any more viable. So what can you do with the populie of “men and women are natural enemies?”
1. Change the language. Talk more about human beings and being human instead of being “manly” or “girlie.”
2. Ask the opposite sex to react in a more enlightened form instead of falling back on our culture’s forced role models.
3. Call out inequality between the sexes when you see it, using humor, but also diligence.
Popular lies–populie–is when religion, politics and entertainment join together in agreement to promote easy ideas instead of instigating needful change.
It is the definition of becoming too worldly.
Because our species will not survive unless men and women celebrate our similarities … and set aside our alleged differences.
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