User:Thomas J. Mason

Thomas J. Mason was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962.

He served in the United States Air Force for 25 years and 8 months, attaining the rank of Senior Master Sergeant (E-8). During his career he studied at universities around the world; wherever the military sent him. By the time of his retirement he held undergraduate degrees in two distinct disciplines and a graduate degree in Education. After retiring in Phoenix, Mason accepted a position as a college professor, and soon after, became a Department Chair. He moved on to a university in central Phoenix and now teaches from a conservative philosophy borne from Locke and Burke.

His personal philosophy mirrors much of the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's thoughts regarding sociological functionalism.

 "The propensity for human beings to redefine deviance plays out in America much as it did in the movie The Matrix.
 We adopt and accept deviance until it destroys us and we have to rebuild.  The welfare mentality, celebrating single 
 motherhood, and gay marriage are symptoms of today's nihilistic postmodernism that wipes away standards of decency 
 and common sense.  It cares less about the future than about what makes us feel good today.  This demonstrates a 
 collective ethic that thrives on license rather than freedom."