Being a male in America, the center of Western culture, is not by any means easy. We’re plagued by stereotypes and we fight among ourselves. We grow up programmed to act acertain way, talk a certain way, and to do certain things. Unfortunately, this mentalconditioning is not productive, nor is it healthy. And one of the major contributors to thisproblem is our ‘scientific’ system of education. As C. S. Lewis stated in one of his books calledThe Abolition of Man, the motives of scientific education are questionable because it appearsthat “...the ‘trousered ape’ and the ‘urban blockhead’ may be precisely the kind of man theyreally wish to produce.” It this ‘trousered ape’ that we are seeing now in our schools. But, it ismore than that. Scientific education allows all types of bullying and brutality (physical andverbal) to go on, simply because it refuses to wield the weapons that will crush them. Thereader may wish to know what these magical weapons are, so I will attempt to explain. Theweapons with to combat this epidemic of abuse are morals. Scientific education teaches it’spupils that “Truth is relative; everyone has there own truth.” and “Right is whatever is right foryou.” When you teach people this from the crib, is it then really so difficult to see why thereare wars on crime and drugs? Additionally, the male mind is conditioned to think that a man cannot feel emotion, thatmen should not be thoughtful or caring, and that a man cannot express a feeling of agape lovefor another man, because if he does he is by default homosexual. Western culture promotesthe idea that a man must lust after women, and any man who doesn’t must be gay. What everhappened to the apostle Paul who said that, “...It is good to remain as I [unmarried], but if theycannot contain themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than...
