Posted on 03/25/2023 6:11:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Unless it manages to change course, the West is transitioning toward a socialist utopia. Since this author defined socialism as a nihilist, spiritual sickness that craves death, and described its stranglehold on America, the symptoms have only escalated. As Pamela Geller writes, "[t]here are so many historic, unprecedented crimes, crises, etc going on all at once, One is almost in a constant state of intellectual whiplash."
Socialism is the inevitable conclusion to secular humanism, or Modernism (used here and throughout in its philosophical context) — the civilizational era that is now passing into history. We happen to be living in a time in which the vitality of our culture's forgotten, foundational "essentialist" philosophy has finally been exhausted, and our adopted "existentialist" philosophy now exposes us to self-destruction.
The default position of humanity for most of history has been to seek an existential ultimacy, or source of meaning, from within the material universe. Existence precedes meaning; meaning is contrived from existence.
This identification of the "material," or nature, as the ultimate "force" of life and reality was lived out in fullness by the ancient Egyptians. While nature represented the uncontrollable chaotic "chance" that provided creative energy, their gods represented the order and control that bound the universe and provided unity. The gods, however, were also natural. The nexus between order and chaos was represented by the tip of the pyramid, and Pharaoh became the mediator, balancing the power of the gods and chaos within his self. Pharaoh was the ultimate man.
All pagan societies repeat this model to some extent, including our own. We are increasingly witnessing the superstitious view
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I don’t know about a pagan society, but we seem to have a pagan government.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
— Isaiah 5:20
There is an instruction book for all humanity that was written down thousands of
years ago, and just about the rules set forth are the distilled wisdom of all
the generations that had gone before. Every “new” way of constructing a society seems
bent first to DENYING this collective wisdom, then in systematically destroying the
rules and guidance derived from that store of wisdom. The “new” way is not so new at all.
Chaos should not be the normal state of mankind.
Yes, I have noticed that hard leftists are often atheists too.
Socialism is communism with training wheels.
Pagan societies indeed nothing scares the lazy like work and earning your own way.
Socialism is the modern day shell game
Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
I wonder if those squawking for socialism have ever been to a real socialist nation like Venezuela or Zimbabwe, not just false ones like Denmark or Canada.
We have a pagan government because we have a pagan society.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Socialism is an economy-wide version of the sign that used to hang in the neighborhood repair shop near my childhood home,
“We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you”
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