{"id":5822,"date":"2015-02-19T06:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2015-02-19T06:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T11:21:27","slug":"a-moral-code-for-the-post-collapse-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5822","title":{"rendered":"A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"contentheading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alt-market.com\/articles\/2513-a-moral-code-for-the-post-collapse-world\" target=\"_blank\">A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Popular media today, including television and cinema, are rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism \u2014 the use of false and fictional moral dilemmas designed to promote the rationalization of an \u201cends justify the means\u201d narrative. We are also bombarded lately with entertainment depicting an endless array of \u201canti-heroes,\u201d protagonists who have little to no moral code fighting antagonists who are even more evil, thus vindicating the otherwise disgusting actions of the heroes. From \u201c24\u201d to \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d to \u201cThe Walking Dead,\u201d American minds are being saturated with propaganda selling the idea that crisis situations require a survivor to abandon conscience. In other words, in order to defeat monsters, you must become a monster.<\/p>\n<p>This theme is not only unavoidable in film and TV, but also in military journals, politics, and even within liberty movement discussion.<\/p>\n<p>What I see developing is an extremely dangerous philosophy that rests on the foundation that victory (or survival) is the paramount virtue and that it should be attained at any cost. Moral compass becomes a \u201cluxury\u201d that \u201ctrue\u201d apex survivors cannot afford, an obstacle that could eventually get one killed. I have heard some survivalists and liberty proponents in anger over the trespasses of the corrupt establishment suggest a strict adherence to the eye-for-an-eye ideology, up to and including torture, harming of the enemy\u2019s families, and even harming the children of those who would harm us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World Popular media today, including television and cinema, are rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism \u2014 the use of false and fictional moral dilemmas designed to promote the rationalization of an \u201cends justify the means\u201d narrative. We are also bombarded lately with entertainment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,3636,3638,3637,766],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-moral-relativism","tag-philosophy","tag-post-collapse","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}