Preserving the free nation that has been handed down to its descendants is a mission that many on the Right would wholeheartedly defend, and rightly so.
Towards that end, the importance or significance of having a written constitution to preserve and identify certain basic principles and rules upon which such a country is founded is paramount.
However, even when such documents exist, laws and constitutions aren’t worth the paper they’re written on if the people to whom they apply no longer abide by them.
When it comes right down to it, with or without a written constitution, all societies are effectively governed or ruled by convention. That means that whatever current values and practices are being applied and broadly accepted without resistance or opposition effectively become the law.
Thus, in order for a nation to have a constitution that protects the rights to ‘life, liberty, and property” it is essential that this document be drafted from within a culture that already abides by these values.
As podcaster Franck Zanu recently observed in regard to the American Constitution: “Writers of the constitution only put into that document what was already a part of them. Constitutions cannot promise or yield anything. Constitutions are not notes you write for what you want to become. It’s not a promissory note. It’s not a blueprint. ‘Constitute.’ That is the word. You have to have it first in order to write it down.”
It is from this perspective that Zanu describes the tragedy that is currently happening in Africa.
The image accompanying this week’s podcast and blog post represents a ‘before and after” view of Sophie De Bruyne Street in South Africa, where it is clear that conditions within a ten year period have deteriorated from a “first world” status to a “third world” tragedy.
Caused primarily by the country’s ‘independence’ from assumed ‘white colonizers’, it is a pattern being repeated not only across Africa, but everywhere that the Western cultural base has been eroded or eliminated in the name of so-called multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism, being a contradiction in terms, is always doomed to fail in the protection of any single culture thanks to the laws of reality, which do not accept contradictions. Competing hostile ideologies cannot co-exist.
It is said that ‘politics is downstream from culture’ and these trends visibly demonstrate that principle in action. Perhaps what we haven’t quite understood in a way that is Just Right is how that principle also applies to any nation’s founding Constitutional framework.
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