I don’t mean to cause any “Paine” here, but what about the original thesis of the author, that liberalism, in the words of Michael Savage, is a mental disorder? Besides the richness of the intellectual and spiritual history provided by Linda Kimball, I think there is one element missing. We have roughly 100 million citizens walking around in this country who have killed their own child. Should that be a player here? Would that explain some of the guilt, and the spiritual degradation of this generation? There was an organization called Catholics United for Life who coined the phrase “misplaced guilt”. Those who strive to save the Earth are the ones who could not save their own helpless child.
Nor do I mean to be a “Paine” (loved the pun, btw!), but one of the major themes is ‘demonic nothingness,’ which means death...endless death. Death of soul, mind, reason, life, innocence (ie., babies), beauty, truth, virtue, and creation. Demonic nothingness is at bottom, the pure, unadulterated nothingness of satanic envy, which CS Lewis called ‘that Hideous Strength.” JRR Tolkien depicted it as Sauron’s blasted hell.
If you’ve not watched the DVD, Demographic Winter, which warns that the world is heading toward catastrophe due to abortion, family planning, breakdown of the family, and other issues, then I urge you to watch it. It’s truly the unheard, unreported story of our time. It is also, in my opinion, a precurser to Demonic Nothingness.