Looking back on it all... It makes sense that I was drawn back into Christianity. I loved Byron, Shelley and Keats. Especially Keats. Loved Tennyson. A deaf kid has suprising resonance in the Lady of Shallot, because that is *exactly* what our life is like.
I am half sick of shadows! Realizing that your perception is flawed opens yourself up to many different worlds, when you realize that perception sees through the mind.
Thanks for your post. Made me see something that I hadn’t put together until now.
Your welcome. I remember my shock when I had a “paradigm shift” with the discovery that there actually could be such evil forces conspiring in our government and schools to destroy everything which made this country the best and happiest and most humane place on earth.
I certainly overlooked the inherent evil of man and was gullible because I didn’t look deeply into the philosophical ideas until I read the Closing of the American Mind by Bloom which led to my study of the origins of ideas.
Also, reading the encyclicals of the latest Popes opened my eyes to the logic and reason of Catholic Theology which brought me to St. Thomas Aquinas and then to John Locke and the brilliance of the thinking of our Founding Fathers. Natural Law Theory was the logical bases of laws and the foundation which St. Thomas aligned all Catholic thought.
Such genius and logical thinking needs to be destroyed to create this fraudulent utopian one-world government where the masses will all be serfs at best. Cognitive dissonance is what is taught to our young in public schools. All on purpose. The camel’s nose under the tent is multiculturalism, tolerance, diversity and gender—all to destroy logic and reasoning.
In the 70’s when working in the classroom, I could tell that something was wrong with the curricula my children were being fed—the Values Clarification sounded so nice (Marx’s terms always do) but it was the start of killing moral absolutes—the Biblical bases of thinking that was prominent in Western Civ since 300AD.
Of course, that type of logical thinking is what created the great authors, inventors, Enlightenment, and artists in Western Civilization and why the Marxists chanted in the 60’s, Western Civ has got to go....They wanted the Canon of Western Civilization to be eliminated to eliminate the Christian worldview and establish the pagan, Wicca type cr*p “if it feels good, do it” that has always led to nihilism and destruction of cultures and unreliable economies.