Five Asymmetries Driving Americans Crazy

If it sometimes feels like your life, your culture, and even your politics is out of kilter, that's because it is. We are living in a world mired in asymmetries which skew the way we see the world.

They say the chief sign of beauty is symmetry, such as one’s face being the exact same on each side. That’s dumb. If you’re ugly on both sides of your face, who cares about symmetry? Besides, they also tell me us that Marilyn Monroe’s mole on the left side of her face was a “beauty mark.” So, what do “they” really know?

We certainly find symmetry appealing in other arenas of life, like architecture (or, at least, we used to). Classically-designed temples and churches and courthouses are always symmetrical, which contributes to the order and peace and good sense that they were designed torepresent. Interestingly, one of the defining hallmarks of the modern “McMansion” is their addition of extra elements like window, turrets, and unnecessary rooflines that destroysymmetry. If and when the McMansion ultimately falls out of favor, the symmetry of Classical designs will remain undefeated.

More important than aesthetics, our politics are also infected by asymmetry. We work hard, mind our p’s and q’s, and pay our taxes, and all we get for it is disorder, debt, and stupidity. In any sane world, we would get out what we put in, and maybe a little extra for being obedient denizens. There would be representation by those we elect to, well…represent us. Popular ideas would get passed and unpopular ideas would never be considered. There would be no shame in majority privilege, national privilege, and citizen privilege. That is, in fact, the way it is supposed to be.

But we live in an asymmetric age, and it is driving millions of us crazy. Being gaslit on such an industrial scale demands some assurance that we are not alone, and that we really aren’t crazy.

So I am here to tell you that you are not, in fact, crazy. Your society feels unbalanced because it is. More could be said, but here are just a few aspects of your world that are deeply asymmetrical.

1. Immigration.

It is easy to get them in, but 100 times harder to get them out. One administration literally lifted the barbed wire to facilitate their entrance, but two Americans are now dead as a result of a highly-orchestrated resistance against ICE which occurred in the next. All of the mainstream media was silent while 10 million illegals entered our borders in a period of only four years, none never pointing out that Biden had not bothered to campaign on mass importation from the rest of the world. But when Trump does exactly what he promised in his campaign, somehow he’s a Nazi? The incredible cost of importing—only to later deport—people from around the world is absolutely unjust. Evil, even.

2. Taxation & Debt

The national debt grows unabated while our taxes increase. In any sane world, an increase in taxes should mean that the debt is under some kind of control. Or, in a symmetric world, we would understand that lower taxes means a lack of government “services,” and that higher taxes would net us wonderful infrastructure, a strong national defense, and no debt. We however live in an asymmetric world and have the worst of all worlds: we pay ever more for decreased services and increased debt, which leads to inflation and devalues our paychecks even more. So even if our federal taxes are not increasing, every other tax is, while at the same time our dollar is devalued. With substandard roads, ugly airports, and homeless encampments everywhere to show for it, we feel the weight of these fiscal injustices on a daily basis.

3. Cultural Rot

Conservatives and Christians haven’t changed their values, but their cultural world has changed dramatically. Pop music is openly demonic. Television is woke and largely a waste of time. Marijuana is everywhere, as is sports betting, pornography, and profanity. Holding on to a basic sense of right and wrong while the world radically changes under your feet is destabilizing. And yet, we must bear that reality because…what else can we do? Just another asymmetry in our lives.

4. Crime & Homelessness

It is de rigueur to accept the sad fact that homelessness is deliberate and that no one ever intends to solve it at a policy level. Sure, there are many “do-gooders” who desire to help the homeless. But homelessness is allowed for the same reason that crime is: it holds law-abiding, taxpaying citizens at bay. We better not complain. Our cities can, and will, get worse. Homelessness and crime are sociological warfare. I wish I didn’t believe that, but the simple fact that this problem has not yet been solved when it easily could be is all the evidence I need. The government is literally on the side of the criminals, not the victim’s. That is why persons who have been arrested 14 times are still free to commit murder on public transport. Multiply that by 1 million and you get a radically asymmetric way of life.

5. Male defense of culture & female voting patterns.

This one is for all the men out there. I’m sorry, but the reality is that men are called upon—by definition—to defend our civilization, when such a defense is offered up. Men overwhelmingly occupy the ranks of our military branches, fire departments, and police forces, to say nothing of all of the construction, logging, engineering, garbage pickup, and trade jobs. And yet, single women are the only demographic that overwhelmingly votes for the party that supports open borders, soft on crime policies, and foreign conflicts. Men, and the normal women who support them, especially feel this as an injustice, even if they have never really identified it previously.

I submit that the solution to asymmetry is symmetry. I hardly need to list the solutions: balanced budgets, a rejection of profane popular culture, favoring citizens over immigrants, rejecting crime and homelessness, and make an equal sacrifice a requirement for voting.

Maybe, if we’re lucky, during this primary season we will have the opportunity to vote for candidates who will restore symmetry in our politics. And we Christians can restore the same in the culture.

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