What is it about traditional mothers that moderns find so offensive? Is it really all about “submissiveness” to something they call “the Patriarchy?” Do they really believe traditional mothers reinforce something so-called feminists call “gender roles?” On the surface it may seem this way. But I’ve been digging a little deeper and I think there’s something else at play here. Because the elites who keep feeding us that hype are usually big promoters of political correctness. And political correctness is nothing more than a silencing tool. It’s used to prop up the power of elites who push self-serving agendas that would never withstand real scrutiny.
In a very real sense, traditional mothers are probably the ultimate barrier to the consolidation and centralization of power of the Mass State. Think about it. Mothers who cultivate virtue and a sense of uniqueness in their children are the ultimate de-centralizers and distributors of power in a society. They set virtuous communities in motion. Behind the scenes.
I explore this idea in a series I recently wrote for the British web magazine, “The Conservative Woman.” You can click here to read the first installment: “Traditional Mothers are the True Subversives: That’s Why the State Wants to Gag Them.” It’s part of a conversation Leslie Loftis started at that publication with her essay “Conservative Women are a Deadly Threat to Liberal Elites.” Here’s a review of my series:
In this first part I’d like to give you the lay of the land as I see it: How and why the agents of political correctness target any independent thinker, but particularly conservative women. And what happens when we give in to self-censorship. In the second part, I’ll talk about something called “the spiral of silence.” In Part three, I’ll dig a bit more into the mechanics of political correctness and how it works and why I believe the only way out is through the “ Hidden Sphere .” In Part Four, I explore a bit about the inextricable link between freedom and friendship. Finally, in the final installment, I offer a few prescriptions on how conservative women can resist getting sucked into the PC machine – and make friends (and, sure, some frenemies) along the way.
Here's another excerpt:
Statists are forever trying to coax us into giving up being the hand that rocks the cradle so that they can take control of the cradle for themselves. If there was so little power in what we do and what we believe, why ever would they seek to do such a thing? Why would they even care?They care not only because we have the power to express our views and values to the next generation, but that we are actually inclined do so. Not only that, but if we are stay at home mothers with a steady source of income independent of the State, they see us as dangerously free agents in our private lives."
In a previous post I discussed how Soviet era Czech dissident Vaclav Havel referred to our private lives as the all powerful "hidden sphere." I see the attack on the family, and mothers in particular, as an attempt to disrupt and destroy the power of the hidden sphere.
Comments