The problem became how to reconcile the two, the brilliance running on a parallel track but separate from the world and the base fear of forces, ominous and conspiratorial, lurking in the darkness beyond. They were right in lamenting the loss of Classical Thought and the decoupling of our social strictures from the forces driving them for millennia. I think that they were wrong and giving too much credence to the power of conspirators and the sympathetic mutuality of their goals. The lesson I took was that good intentioned men can be brilliant, educated and wrong. Were they wrong or was I?
A combination of negative and positive, balance so to speak. Maybe they present both sides of the coin.
Very interesting take on them. Thank you. I shall read them.
It was like taking a straight road that would often make an inexplicable sharp turn then go right back. It would leave you going “What the hell was that all about?”
The problem came in separating the organization from the members. The wackiness made the rest hard to take seriously for most people and caused them to to dismiss the whole. Hence why the Birch society has never really taken off.