The Old Normal

Over the past 3 years the media has presented to the tuned-in masses a “new normal” referring to the idea that life after the coronavirus pandemic will and should look markedly different than life before the coronavirus. Never mind the many pandemics that have affected the world in the past centuries, this post-pandemic world will be a “new normal” completely unlike the old normal.

I’m not saying that the average citizen in America will benefit from this new normal. In fact, I fear that the average person is once again on the losing end of some larger agenda but let’s take a moment to evaluate what “normal” had come to mean in our nation.

Are we sure that pre-pandemic America, the “old normal”, is actually where we want to be?

Consider that the old normal meant that almost a million unborn children a year were slaughtered inside the womb without even being given the protection of the right to life under the guise of a Constitutional right to privacy and the primary extermination corporation of unborn children, Planned Parenthood received millions in federal funding.

Remember, nothing is government funded—it’s taxpayer funded.

Given that most of these abortions occur in minority neighborhoods as intended by their founder, Margaret Sanger, they are threaded into the eugenics movement. Thus America allows eugenics through the government and its corporations.

The “old normal” meant that almost 50% of marriages end in divorce and many children are raised in broken homes where they are more likely to live in poverty and have mental health problems that follow them throughout their life.

The “old normal” meant that corporations became the dominant force in the economy propped by governmental policies that ensure the survival of biggest at the expense of the small business. This stellar economic situation then led to consolidation of power and wealth in a few industries and leaders who can easily manipulate the law and lobby politicians to further increase their power.

The “old normal” meant a life where being honest and virtuous was chided. It meant a life where things had more meaning than people, where individuals had more meaning than families, where men and women lost their identities all in quest to find a way out of the void of unhappiness that permeates a society that has forgotten God.

For a century, we have watched the moral disintegration of society, the destruction of the family, the destruction of the hardworking man, the destruction of vast swaths of society all for the pursuit of happiness by focusing on individual pleasure, trying to find the answers within ourselves ---exactly the opposite direction in which happiness is truly found.

Let US define what this New Normal should be instead of the progressive media and their corporate/government backers.

Let’s find lost virtue. Let’s rediscover that happiness is found by focusing outward --giving to others, loving others in our real lives not just through some vague taxation policy.

Let’s put down our phones and walk to the neighbor’s house and talk. Let’s teach a child to read. Let’s babysit a child for a family so their parents can have some time alone. Let’s learn self-control and pursue truth and goodness and beauty in the world.

Let’s work on our marriages even when they get tough. Let’s stop using anonymity of social media to insult people online. Let’s assume the best about each other.

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of those with whom we disagree. Let’s find a way to make our families and our nation thrive.

Let’s love one another.

Above all, let’s agree that the “old normal” was not normal at all and in end that “old normal” was not really free at all.

Freedom is found only in living a life of virtue—everything else is enslavement to vice.

The New Normal needs to be rooted in Truth, goodness, and beauty.

This is our mission.