20 Signs That America's Culture is Deeply Unhealthy

We do not have a healthy culture                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 [Open in app]( or [online]() [20 Signs That America's Culture is Deeply Unhealthy]( We do not have a healthy culture [John Hawkins]( Nov 26 ∙ Preview   [Save]()   One of the problems with assessing America’s culture is the way that human beings tend to perceive the world. We are extremely adaptable creatures and what today may seem unthinkable can, decades or even just years later, seem so ordinary that people barely even notice it. It’s like fish living in a fish tank. “The castle is over there, the place we get fed is over there, the whirring thing is over there, here’s one of the edges…” but, WHY is it that way? Is it good that it’s that way? How do you know if there’s no comparison? If you’ve never traveled, never read history, if you’re not old enough to remember a different time and never had discussions with people who did, you have no way to evaluate how healthy or unhealthy the living is in your cultural fish tank. It occurred to me that this was worth writing about based on a couple of things that were tweeted on the [new and improved Elon Musk version of Twitter](. The first way was this post from a guy in Qatar responding to some grandstanding jackass who wore a gay soccer shirt to the World Cup and was told he couldn’t come in unless he changed the shirt: [[Twitter avatar for @binnahar85] د. نايف بن نهار @binnahar85 As a Qatari I’m proud of what happened. I don’t know when will the westerners realize that their values aren’t universal. There are other cultures with different values that should be equally respected. Let’s not forget that the West is not the spokesperson for humanity. [Twitter avatar for @GrantWahl] Subscribe to GrantWahl.com @GrantWahlJust now: Security guard refusing to let me into the stadium for USA-Wales. “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.” ( PM ∙ Nov 21, 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------- 745,441Likes175,116Retweets]( Qatar is certainly no bastion of culture or human rights, but is that guy wrong? Many Americans today would say “yes,” but past generations of Americans wouldn’t have agreed – and with good reason. Tolerance is a traditional American virtue and yes, it absolutely should extend to gay Americans. If you’re gay, go be gay, it’s not everyone else’s business or their problem. However, in the last couple of decades, Americans have gone all the way past finally achieving tolerance to celebrating homosexuality. We PROMOTE IT to children in the schools, encourage kids to be confused about their gender, shoehorn it into movies at every opportunity, and have even turned sporting events into yet another opportunity to shout to the world how great it is to be gay or transgender. While you certainly shouldn’t hate someone for being gay or transgender, it’s deeply abnormal that so much of American culture relentlessly propagandizes in favor of these things. Yes, throwing people in jail for being gay is a sign of an unhealthy culture, but so is having a gay pride month featuring people in assless chaps on parade while every corporation and school relentlessly talks about how great it is for people to be gay.   This comment from a Qatari and the response from Matt Walsh also caught my eye: Personally, I agree with him. I think America once had a culture that the whole world would have benefitted from sharing and there are still undercurrents of that culture that are worth copying. However, I wouldn’t advise ANY NATION to copy our culture wholesale today because it is so infected, broken, and degenerate that it’s very hard to say whether the good parts of our society would be of more value than the sickness we’d undoubtedly pass along with them. It would be like getting a kidney transplant from a cancer patient who you knew would pass it on in the process. With that in mind, it’s worth laying down some cultural markers. You want examples of how America’s culture is unhealthy? Well, here’s a list, albeit incomplete (this could easily be three or four times as long), of things great and small. When you see these issues starting to be corrected, you’ll know America’s culture is starting to regain its health: 1) Abortion: Since the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, 63 million children have been slaughtered. That’s approaching ten times as many people who were killed during the Holocaust. Yes, the numbers were going down before the SCOTUS reversal of Roe vs. Wade and that’s likely to continue after the decision, but the sheer number of children we’ve murdered and continue to murder is arguably the single most monstrous act by any nation in all of recorded human history. 2) The divorce rate: Depending on which statistics you believe, roughly [40-50% of first marriages end in divorce today]( and the numbers only go up in 2nd and 3rd marriages. On the other hand, although it’s increasing, the divorce rate in India, for example, is about 1.1%. 3) Drug use: Americans are some of the heaviest drug users on planet Earth. The [statistics are stunning](. * "37% of the population struggles with illicit drug use and 12% struggle with both alcohol and drug use." * "66% of all Americans are actively taking some type of prescription drug. This amounts to 131 million Americans." * "Overdose deaths tripled in the decade between 1999 and 2019 (from 6.1 to 21.6 per 100,000). Much of this increase is related to the widespread opioid epidemic that has swept the nation in recent years." 4) Authoritarian impulses under COVID: We literally had businesses forced to shut down by the government, people who lost their jobs for refusing to take a poorly tested, dubiously effective vaccine, and police harassing people in churches and on beaches for refusing to bow to capricious, obviously ineffective COVID regulations. 5) The birth rate: A society needs a birth rate of 2.1 children per couple to keep from shrinking without immigration. Currently, in the United States, ours is 1.64. In other words, our civilization is slowly dying off. 6) Marriage: Marriage has often been correctly called, “the bedrock of society.” Yet, in 2021, the average age that Americans first got married was 28.6 years old. That’s up from 22.9 years old in 1920. Meanwhile, only 45% of Americans are married. That’s down from 67.4% in 1960.  7) Victim-oriented culture: Americans are increasingly embracing a [victim-oriented culture]( where whoever can portray himself as the most pathetic, the most hurt, and the most victimized is catered to by society. 8) Gender confusion: We now have many Americans that have personal pronouns, embrace made-up sexualities, and believe that they can change their gender at will. These false, unscientific beliefs are often even promoted to children in schools.  9) Hatred of America: Liberals in America often demonize their own country, mock patriotic people, and treat their country’s flag like a hateful symbol of intolerance. Seeing so many Americans that openly despise and want to fundamentally transform what has arguably been the most successful and prosperous nation in human history is almost strange beyond belief. 10) Race obsession: No matter how thin the connection may seem to be, nearly EVERYTHING in America [gets turned into a racial issue](. Farmer’s markets, trees, immigration, skiing, voter ID, national parks – it all gets boiled down to race. It’s utterly obsessive and bizarre... Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to Culturcidal by John Hawkins to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. [Start trial]( A subscription gets you: Paid subscriber only posts & special bonus posts. Have input into the topics I write about. A weekly Q&A session once we hit 100 members. A members only forum at 500 members.   [Like]( [Comment]( [Share](   © 2022 John Hawkins 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 [Unsubscribe]() [Get the app]( writing](