{"id":88,"date":"2024-09-07T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counteringculturaldestruction.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2024-09-09T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T00:55:07","slug":"the-cause-of-war-by-roger-westlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/counteringculturaldestruction.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/the-cause-of-war-by-roger-westlin\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CAUSE OF WAR – by Roger Westlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a basic principle involved in war. Clausewitz[1]<\/a> said war is an extension of politics by other means. I don\u2019t see how that is useful. Practically, war occurs when you have conflict that doesn\u2019t resolve with communication. Politics can come into play, but that doesn\u2019t change the basic principle just stated.<\/p>\n

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Artist rendering of Carl von Clausewitz<\/p><\/div>\n

Conflicts, like problems that don\u2019t resolve, have lies in them. Rather than fight, both sides should examine their reasoning and look for false data. Once found, they need to trace it back to its source.<\/p>\n

Let me give you an example of how this applies by looking at a current national issue\u2014gender dysphoria[2]<\/a>. Despite the current controversy about the subject, it\u2019s not a matter of who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong\u2014not really. Gender dysphoria becomes an issue because people believe<\/em> that the condition, the confusion, can\u2019t be changed<\/strong>. If the parents, the teachers, the schools and so on believed that the child\u2019s interest in the same sex is a passing phase and he or she will outgrow it, they would treat it routinely, without the controversial treatments currently being employed and hidden. When you enter in some expert\u2019s opinion about this from outside the family, it creates a different situation. Parents who believe <\/em>what these outside experts are saying, that there is nothing to be done for the child except to go along with him or her, are then accepting the condition as unchanging. And therein is the usual lie.<\/p>\n

In this situation parents with no other solution are then all about making the world right for their kid and this unfortunate condition. They support the authorities themselves; they support reassignment and all the related new issues that arise, like sports, bathrooms, hiding children\u2019s pronouns from parents and so on, all in a very understandable effort to protect their children. Then there are parents who believe the condition can be handled, and that supporting gender reassignment steps that are permanently damaging to their kids is wrong. Both sides believe they are doing the right thing. Both sides believe the other is trying to hurt the kids<\/em>, and there you have the necessary condition for war. Both sides are opposed to each other. Bystanders jump in on both sides, as it is now a matter of belief, though not religious belief, as that too has been undermined. Still, it is a religious<\/em> war of sorts\u2014a war of opposing beliefs\u2014an unresolving conflict. As explained earlier, with unresolving conflicts and unresolving problems, there is always a lie involved. In these types of situations what you really have is an inability to spot the source of a problem. Each side mounts its offensive and the conflict escalates. Eventually it\u2019s political and each party is targeting the other; it seems more and more like a life or death issue.<\/p>\n

So, what is the lie? It\u2019s the assertion that the condition can\u2019t be handled in any other way. Who are the ultimate \u201cauthorities\u201d on this line? The answer is the psychologist. In 1879 Professor Wundt declared man is an animal and has no soul. At that moment psychology betrayed mankind\u2014a treasonous act if ever there was one. Based on Wundt\u2019s proclamation, the body is it. We are all meat, and there is nothing else.\u00a0 Thus, the psychologist[3]<\/a> considers the body as the sole source of body troubles. It doesn\u2019t accept or acknowledge that the person himself, the soul or spirit, has any say, influence or effect on the body. Just like one may inherit bad traits genetically, in the case of Wundt\u2019s betrayal, now Medicine inherits the problem. There is nothing greater than the body, it says; no soul, so if the body is sick it is obvious you cut or drug it to fix it! Another betrayal.<\/p>\n

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Father of “modern psychology” Wilhelm Wundt<\/p><\/div>\n

When the soul is taken out of the equation, you end up with not much of a future, and what future you have concerns pleasures of the flesh, instant gratification, or \u201cyou only live once, so get what you are due!\u201d Not strangely, twice in our history newspapers have shut down in two different towns at two different times, and the crime rate in each dropped to zero. Not being inundated by the media with its \u201cno future\u201d message produces less crime! Conversely, peddle the \u201cno future\u201d message and crime increases.<\/p>\n

Today our kids are being taught these things in school. Especially, they are not taught to think, but rather to \u201cthink\u201d with the thoughts of others, the authorities, which means less and less future\u2014to what end?<\/p>\n

Our political parties are in a heating up cold war. To what end? The enforcement of one\u2019s beliefs on others is why we have separation of Church and State. That thinking should also extend to these non-religious beliefs<\/em>. The government should pull back and get out of the personal lives of people. The originator of the lie, that these conditions can\u2019t be handled, is another problem. Realizing the basic untruth of such lies is a start. Continuing to look for real answers is the answer.<\/p>\n

This paper is not a treatment of the gender dysphoria situation. I\u2019m using it only as an example of how a lie can cause an unresolving conflict that could lead to war. Whether war between parents; between professions; between anything, including countries, it\u2019s the same mechanics. The only answer is to be certain of your facts. Gender dysphoria is a recent term, today being applied more broadly than when first created back in 2010. By labeling it, the psychiatric field has established a market for what is a normal growing pain, which for years has resolved itself without so much as a “by your leave.”\u00a0 Now we have it on “good authority” that there are medical\/psychiatric fixes for this “disease\/condition,” the simple basic untruth of which now has the US further divided and fighting itself.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Roger West<\/strong><\/em>lin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

All Rights Reserved<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Carl Philipp Gottfried<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(or\u00a0Gottlieb<\/strong>)\u00a0von Clausewitz<\/strong>; 1 July 1780 \u2013 16 November 1831)\u00a0was a\u00a0<\/em>Prussian\u00a0general and\u00a0military theorist who stressed the “moral” (in modern terms meaning\u00a0psychological) and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work,\u00a0<\/em>Vom Kriege<\/em>\u00a0(“On War”), though unfinished at his death, is considered a seminal treatise on\u00a0<\/em>military strategy\u00a0and\u00a0science <\/em><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> The word \u201cdysphoria\u201d means a state of feeling very uneasy, unhappy and dissatisfied.<\/em> Gender dysphoria<\/em><\/strong> is defined as the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity\u2014their personal sense of their own gender\u2014and their sex assigned at birth. The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5.<\/em><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> \u201cPsychology\u201d as a word <\/em>derives from the Greek words \u201cpsych\u0113” meaning literally \u201csoul or spirit,\u201d and \u201clogia,\u201d meaning \u201cscience or study.\u201d Thus, what should be the study of the spirit today has become something else entirely.<\/em><\/p>\n

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