Email from OCPAC Eviscerated patriarchs & the death of society Published Monday, August 11, 2025 SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. BOB LINN CONNECTING HISTORY WITH THE FUTURE Time is truth’s best friend. At time, the clock moves a century at a time. In the case of the fraudulent innuendos from the state’s Department of Education board members Becky Carson and Ryan Detherage, truth surfaced much more rapidly as indicated by the legislative report that conceded Ryan’s innocence. The assaults on Ryan are, of course, motivated by his work to return Oklahoma’s government-controlled educational institutions to the moral and ideological foundations from which they came. Dr. Piper’s most recent Washington Times article (below) reminded me of the writing of Edmund Burke and his influence on the trajectory of British government, British culture, and the reverence due to the past and the God who is preeminent in history's pathways. England was saved from radicalism by the work of Edmund Burke, the man considered by many to have played the major role in preventing Britain from losing its cultural underpinnings. Edmund Burke waxed eloquent on the point that innovation must not be allowed to move a nation forward without remembering the God from whom we receive our laws and the wisdom of our forefathers who inculcated those laws into the social structure. Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790. There, he stated the idea that societies must knit together the past, the present, and the future rather than abandoning history in order to satisfy our more uncivilized and savage passions. He said societies maintain their health through a partnership not only between those who are living, but those who are dead, those who are living, and those who are yet to be born. Writing further in his Reflections, Burke gave a sober warning to every generation who may, by forgetting their debt to their ancestors, destroy for their pleasure the whole original fabric of society . . . leaving the coming generation a ruin instead of a habitation – and teaching their children as little respect as they themselves had for the institutions of their forefathers. Burke specifically warned of the devastating impact of ideas disconnected from Christianity which allow society to accommodate the sudden impulses and physical appetites of the individual man. As Russell Kirk put it in his The Conservative Mind: Revelation, reason, and an assurance beyond the senses tell us that the Author of our being exists, and that He is omniscient; and man, and the state are creations of God’s beneficence. This Christian orthodoxy is the kernel of Burke’s philosophy . . . And what is our purpose in this world? Not to indulge our appetites, but to render obedience to divine ordinance. Russell Kirk went on to say that the stability of a society is found: Where man is slow to break with the old ways that link him with his God in the infinity above and with his father in the grave at his feet. Dr. Everett Piper, in the spirit of Burke, has addressed what has become a cancer to the future of our state and the nation with a well-reasoned article on the alarming state of the nation and the state of Oklahoma where we have severed one of our next generation's most vital link to the wisdom and the experience of the past. DR. EVERETT PIPER Sunday, August 10, 2025 AMERICA NEEDS REAL DADS Well, another day and another beatdown. Last month, it was a woman named Holly who was punched in the face and left unconscious in downtown Cincinnati. Last week, it was the brutal beating of a 19-year-old man named Edward Coristine, who, while protecting his girlfriend during an attempted carjacking, was left bloodied and shirtless on the streets of the District of Columbia. Why are these stories becoming so commonplace? Why are hordes of young men, from Seattle to San Diego and from Minneapolis to Miami, now taking over America’s cities like a pack of rabid wolves? Whatever happened to chivalry, honor, moral restraint and self-control? Where did this culture of hate, vengeance and bloodlust come from? In a recent essay written for the website Christ Over All, Will Spencer suggests the answer to all these questions is simple: Western culture is suffering the consequences of a crisis of fatherhood. One of the greatest threats facing the United States right now is fatherless homes. Millions of boys have no male authority figure in the house to help raise them. In homes where the biological dad does exist, a hyper-feminized culture has, more often than not, left that father so emasculated that any vestiges of his positive masculinity are little but a quaint memory from days gone by. The bottom line is this: America is suffering from what Mr. Spencer calls a “Father Famine.” For three generations and counting, he says, Western men have experienced a crisis of fatherlessness [with] the percentage of children living with single parents [rising] dramatically from 9% in the 1960s to [approximately 40% in 2023] and a Pew Research study now shows that a single mother leads 80% of those homes. Mr. Spencer goes on. This fatherlessness, he says, combined with feminism’s emasculation of men in general, has left America suffering the consequences of what he calls a digital substitute for dads, where for the first time in history, men can find substitute fathers on handheld devices [where they can] browse forums on social media, watch videos on YouTube, or participate in men’s chat groups. This online world, which now serves as a surrogate dad to tens of millions of boys, is known as the Manosphere. According to Mr. Spencer, it is a decentralized network for under-fathered boys [who] discuss what it means to be a man. A place where moral training and responsible masculinity have been replaced by “the Nietzschean pursuit of power — physical, financial, and sexual.” Mr. Spencer continues to describe this dark digital dad by referring to what he calls the “red pill’s false promise.” The “red pill” is a reference to the crimson capsule taken by Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the movie “The Matrix.” It is a drug that awakens him from the deception and lies of the matrix, revealing the truth of what is real. By taking the Manosphere’s “red pill,” says Mr. Spencer, “the truths boys learn [are that men] only embody the nice guy archetype because they’ve been manipulated by their feminist mothers and culture. Men who never question their programming end up as ‘blue-pill betas,’ effeminate suckers deprived of their masculine birthright.” By contrast, men who enter the Manosphere and “take the ‘red pill’ … grow in physical, financial, and sexual power. The promise is that by shedding ‘beta’ programming and becoming ‘alphas’ [they can] triumph over the feminist spirit of the age.” Mr. Spencer points out that millions of young males are finding their substitute dad in the dark digital world of the internet and that this is a breeding ground for extremism. The magnitude of the bitterness towards devouring feminist mothers and abdicating Boomer fathers, he says, is coming home to roost via the viral ideologies [that are a] far more pernicious threat than we realize. Mr. Spencer concludes by saying that the answer to these violent gangs and wayward adolescents does not lie in more coddling but rather in strong male role models. Boys need faithful fathers who model biblical wisdom, self-discipline and moral character. Without this, they will search out the definition of their masculinity elsewhere and find it in the dark world of street gangs, thuggish mobs and the dark rabbit hole of the manosphere. We have bred an entire generation of foolish and undisciplined young men who now think their most prurient and violent instincts define their manhood. The solution is not more single-parent homes or affirming blue-pilled betas but instead strong and present dads who are willing to do their God-given jobs to train up their sons in the way they should go, so that when they are old, they will not depart. Young men need real dads, not more feminism and its consequent “digital fathers” of porn, power and revenge. ________________ Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at [email protected]. Copyright © 2025 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission. Go to the link here to find this week's article. Don't forget to watch his podcast! Before you go about your day be sure to sign up for Dr. Piper's free podcast here. It takes only a moment of time. __________ Follow Dr. Piper on his podcast here. Follow Dr. Everett Piper weekly in The Washington Times here IN CASE YOU MISSED READING ABOUT OUR SUMMER BREAK: We were all pleased with our spring finale with Governor Stitt and a number of luminaries. Video clips are below. For some time, I have needed a sabbatical to catch up on my reading, to reflect, and to think more seriously about my writing. For that reason, we are taking an extended summer break and will resume September 17 at the Oklahoma History Center. We now have an event team who will assist in our meetings which will oversee the September 17 meeting with Our Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice. Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will be our guest in November. In 2026, we will conduct weekly meetings in the spring, from February to May, in an effort to provide meaningful content for our legislators. See the full details under my picture below: SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. MAY 21 MEETING: GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT Kevin Stitt's Full Presentation here Full Meeting here ________ THE ARIA SINGERS Sing God Bless America ARIA here Full Meeting here ________ JESSE LEON RODGERS CITY ELDERS Jesse Rodgers here Full Meeting here _______ WADE BURLESON  MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE BOB LINN SABBATICAL Wade Burleson: Oklahoma and WWII here Wade Burleson: Summer Sabbatical for Bob Linn here Full Meeting here ________ FOR THE FIRST TIME . . . GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT MEETS THE MAN HE PARDONED: NATHAN GORMLEY The first meeting: Governor Stitt & Nathan Gormley here Full Meeting here ________ BOB LINN ANNOUNCES FALL SCHEDULE 2025 SEPTEMBER 17 WEDNESDAY NOON Supreme Court Chief Justice Justin Rowe OCTOBER 1 WEDNESDAY NOON State Treasurer Todd Russ NOVEMBER 4 TUESDAY NITE 7 PM U.S. Attorney General under George W. Bush John Ashcroft DECEMBER 3 WEDNESDAY NOON Christmas ARIA & the Inspirion Singers Special VIP Guests APRIL MEETING Tuesday, April 15, 2025 REMINISCING: GOVERNOR KEATING & SECRETARY PERRY Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. ________ Dr. Carol Swain Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. _______ RUSSELL PERRY & DR. SWAIN CLOSE MEETING by ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. TPUSA Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. BOB LINN Righteousness & Justice in Politics I encourage each of you to support our mission. 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