Is There A Culture War?

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.

[closing narration: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", Twilight Zone episode aired March 4, 1960”

So the quick answer to the question is "no". There is no culture war and that is that. Everyone really needs to watch "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" to understand why there is no culture war.

So the real question becomes why do people believe there is a culture war here in the US (that spills into other countries)? That is a bit more complicated. It starts with a basic lack of understanding of the philosophy of Jesus Christ (this is not an endorsement of religion. This is about the philosophy). 
 

Being a Christian is pretty simply. There are only three rules

     1. Love God

     2. Love yourself as you love God

     3. Love your neighbors as you love yourself and God.

SIDE NOTE: I know there are only two commandments, but for this post I decided to split the commandments. The USA is the only Christian country on the planet. The US Constitution is the works of men who understood the philosophy of Jesus Christ and that is more important for this post than being accurate with the Bible.

Ok, so many people will be like "no way, freedom of religion" or "no state sponsored religion".

You are correct. But I bet you didn't know that Jesus didn't believe in a state sponsored religion or the persecution of any person for believing in another faith. That is how our US Constitution is set up. Just like how Jesus would have wanted it. Where in the Bible does it say Jesus persecuted anyone? He didn't. That is why the US is suppose to believe that everyone is innocent while the prosecution must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Please focus on the word "beyond".

Back to "Is There a Culture War?"
 

The problem is quite simple. The masses do not love themselves. If you do not love yourself, you are incapable of loving anyone. People who do not love themselves are very good at pretending to love everyone. In fact, many of them are capable of "taking care of the world" yet hate themselves. Modern medicine calls that problem "Co-Dependent Personality Disorder". Many RN's have this condition (which explains why so many of them are closeted drunks). 
 

So, if you can be successful, like a RN, by not loving yourself why do you have to love yourself? Well, easiest answer is that you must love yourself to have the ability to love anyone else. You cannot love anyone until you learn to love yourself. (This is not original thinking...this is merely me explaining why there is no culture war)
 

We as people are not islands. At the very least, we need at least one other person to love (love isn't sexual. Love is love. Sex is sex. Stop mixing the two). So when the masses are looking for that person to love but can't because they don't love themselves, they look for scapegoats to blame for their misery. 
 

When the masses start scapegoating, they start going to war with anything and everyone they disagree with. The disagreement might be as simple as the type of music two different people like, they will go to war over that simple disagreement. "MY MUSIC IS SUPERIOR BECAUSE I DON"T USE AUTOTUNE!" is grounds to go to (a culture) war in this country.

In 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's people use to celebrate their differences. No one cared about cultural appropriation. Civil rights happened (for the most part the 60's and 70's took them away but that is for another post). Music in all its forms was celebrated by all.

So what happened? The US started becoming an anti-Christian country. People stopped loving themselves. If you can't love yourself, I know you can't love others. So now, we Americans are in a decline. Islam is on the rise, Jew hating is on the rise and China is technologically more advanced (by at least 20 years) all because most Americans do not have the ability to love themselves.

The solution is easy. Stop hating on others and focus on loving yourself. When you can do that, you'll show love to others by sharing what you like to those who are different than you. You will share your interests without be mean (you know, without snark) and embrace not being a monster on Maple Street.