We are contemptuous of fools who romanticize wild animals, who commune with wolves or bears and then one day are eaten by their feral companions.
Yet civilized people often reach that stage when they have become so charmed by their own advancement, they try to share it with everyone. They discover democracy. They invite the jungle to their city.
We have fed our bears democracy, and they will devour us.
Inviting the jungle to the city is a natural step in an ongoing, would-be cultural revolution against God that's been a long time coming. Its seeds were already present in old deep-seated ambiguities in the American concept of freedom, a concept that has suffered greatly from a lack of concreteness and stability thanks largely to socio-political exigencies of time and place, especially the peculiar high regard for the naked human will that eventually develops in Protestant countries, and makes it almost impossible to discuss what freedom really is (as opposed to what it is not) and where it stands in a well-developed hierarchy of values. What we're seeing now is just the latest step in the human will's primal drive to resist being told what to do by anyone, invariably being told what to do by agents of cultural influence, sight unseen.
“We have fed our bears democracy, and they will devour us.”
Nicely said.