nondominating, nurturing fathers and bread-winning mothers.nGay and straight are the same — simply “preferences.”nAll this is straightforward Progressivism elevated to a religionnand is a variation of the world that Margaret Mead saw innSamoa. But even she was forced to admit: “Androgynynmakes sex an end in itself and makes for shallow relations.”nThe results have been predictable. Inhibitions are disappearing.nAnd so are man-woman relations and the nuclearnfamily. The 50 percent divorce rate expresses this, as thenvast federal bureaucracy becomes steadily more entanglednin personal problems via divorce courts, child custodynbattles, alimony payments, child care and welfare forndependent children of single parents. Legal rules andnsubsidies have replaced human values. Many children havencome to believe their social worker is a parent.nIf Rousseau, Margaret Mead, and the federal bureaucracynare right, paradise should be right around the corner. Butnthere is a fly in the ointment. The early Polynesian explorersndescribed the direct connection between paradise and thenhell that was also there. Tahiti’s darker side included randomnhuman sacrifrce, systematic infanticide, special diets to makenthe people so passive that they would accept death without anstruggle.nIt seems that the randomly erotic and random crueltynwere conceived by the rulers to keep their subjects slaves,nsince morality is a metaphor for individual power andnfreedom as an outcome of personal responsibility. If so, thennwe too are headed for submission, since Polynesian valuesnare becoming ours.nPeter Heywood was a Bounty crewman. He kept a diary.nIn fact, Heywood was the aristocrat assigned to create thenTahitian-English dictionary. He married into the royalnTahitian family. He observed that only the common peoplenwere hedonists: “Virtue (virginity) was as highly prizednamong them (the upper class ladies) as [among] our ownnwomen at home. And to form an opinion of the ladies ofnTahiti from the women who visited the ship would be likenjudging the virtue of an English woman from a study ofnnymphs (prostitutes) at Spithead. . . . Chaperones guardednthe aristocratic girls.”nThere were two value systems for the two classes. In fact.nIn the forthcoming issue of Chronicles:nWho’s in Charge?n”The ‘impassioned mob’ that the constitutionalists sonfeared is now the politicians themselves, their impassionednspecial interests, and their journalists hiding behind anmask of objectivity. Indeed, since most of the politiciansnare themselves lawyers who reject our whole constituhonalnidea of law and judicial decision-making, they havenbecome a rabid countercultural faction attacking the verynfoundation of our legal institutions and ideas.”n12 I CHRONICLESn— from “The Supreme Court Is Too Important tonBe Left to the Politicians”by Jack D. Douglasnnnthe two classes were two different races. The commonersnwere short and dark. The rulers were tall and light-skinned,nwith blue eyes like Europeans. Bougainville confirmed this:n”Tahiti is composed of two different races, one beingnserville.” Bougainville clearly saw the connection betweennhedonism and servility. “What the common people feel,nthey have never been taught to disguise or suppress. Theyndo not think. Since they only live in the moment, they arenaffected by each changing hour.” This made them easy toncontrol.nCaptain Cook noted the commoner’s servility in anothernway. Periodically “the men stay indoors a month or two.nThey eat nothing but breadfruit and vegetables. Thisnproduces a sensible coolness in them. Nothing bothersnthem. Not even death. This implies vapidness, not acceptance.nSuch a disposition leads them to direct all their aimsnonly to what gives pleasure and ease . . . only the aristocracyneats meat.”nThis sounds similar to recent federally mandated developmentsnin the field of nutrition. On the advice of thenSenate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs,nboth the Department of Agriculture and HEW havenactively promoted the severe restriction of animal fats —nnamely red meat, an aggressive food—as a way to reducencholesterol. Chicken and fish, less dynamic proteins, whichncan produce a “sensible coolness,” have been elevated tonthe highest official position. Yet the American Heart Association’snoriginal research showed such restrictions to bendangerous for healthy people and were only advisable forn”high risk” groups.nThe connection between nutrition and power was observednby Bougainville. At first he thought that sexualnequality had created an egalitarian society. Margaret Meadnhas the same view of Samoa. But she never, by her ownnadmission, studied their political system in depth. OnlynBougainville saw the truth: “At first we took the Tahitians tonbe almost equal in rank among themselves, or at leastnenjoying a liberty. I was mistaken. The distinction of ranks isnvery great in Tahiti. And the disproportion is very tyrannical.nThe kings and grandees have the power of life-and-deathnover The People, who the chief calls ‘vile-men.’ Humannsacrifices are taken from this class. Flesh and fish arenreserved for the tables of the great. The commonality eatnfruit and vegetables.”nPeter Heywood wrote about the Tahitian practice ofnhuman sacrifice as a way to diffuse political opposition:n”Human sacrifice was practiced on the altar of Oro, the godnof war. The victim was taken unaware and killed by ansudden blow from behind. The victim was without exceptionna man who, in the opinion of the chiefs, deserved deathnfor the public good. In a land where courts and judges werenunknown, the prospects of being sacrificed restrained manynmen from anti-social acts.”nBougainville hinted that one form of sex was a metaphornfor human sacrifice. His sailors were given a girl for thenevening. The girl did not do this willingly, but was forced tonperform the act as a humiliating public ceremony. “The hutnwas immediately filled with a crowd of men and women,nwho made a circle around the guest and the victim ofnhospitality. The ground was spread with leaves and flowersnand the musicians sang a hymnal song to the tune of theirn