Make Love Not War

This statement is one that all of us have heard. It was the verbal equivalent of flashing a peace sign at someone. And on the surface, who could disagree with it? But the statement is far from simple and far from innocent in it's intent.

The phrase was coined by Herbert Marcuse, a main stagiest for the Marxian movement. It was quickly embraced by American pop culture who were developing serious questions about their nations involvement in Vietnam. Protests began to form and the protests took the form of participating in radical social experiments, protesting drug laws by smoking banana peels in bags, love ins, wearing an identifying uniform such as bell bottom pants and tie-dyed t-shirts and open rebellion with parents. Blind conformity was out and in many cases any kind of conformity was suspect. The youth of the day, were fed a constant diet about the evils of government, the intentional starting of wars in order to finance the Industrial Military Complex, and the dehumanization from being a cog in a much greater machine. It seemed that everything was wrong and much needed to change. The revolution was in full swing. But as people were rebelling against something, they weren't exactly sure where they wanted to go, other than to have more freedom, less accountability, and to position themselves in the center of the universe.

Marcuse argued in his book, Eros and Civilization, that sex should be free from all restraints and by so doing we would elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle. Sexual expression began to shift from procreational reasons to recreational reasons, and governments in all western societies ushered in legislation which made abortion legal. If one would ask about the production of children, one would likely be told that there are "different strokes for different folks, and that things would be just fine. But are they?

In Ontario, young talented energetic teachers straight out of teacher's college are being told by some boards that there aren't any jobs for them. Why? Since 2002, Ontario has lost over 100 000 school children-no kids, no jobs.

Demographers tell us that Ontario secular females are lucky to average 1.4 children during their entire reproductive life. They also tell us that once a societies rate of reproduction drops to below 1.3, the society can never recover. And at 1.0 the population is cut in half every generation. it seems that the marcusian sexual revolution has done what he wanted it it to do-ready the society for chaos and disorder.