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The "Sensate Culture" continues to circle the drain. The late Pitirim Sorokin was truly a cultural prophet. He predicted this would be the path that the "arts" took in the decades ahead. Writing in the 1920's and later publishing a book called "The Crisis of Our Age", he accurately foresaw where our culture was headed in the arts, law, science, philosophy, ethics, etc.

I highly recommend his book if you can find it.

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FYI... 4 in stock at amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1851680284/104-7020664-3588714

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Sorokin: "Ideational truth is the truth revealed by the grace of God, through His mouthpieces (the prophets, mystics, and founders of religion), disclosed in a supersensory way through mystic experience, direct revelation, divine intuition, and inspiration. Such a truth may be called the truth of faith. It is regarded as infallible, yielding adequate knowledge about the true-reality values. In regard to supersensory phenomena, it claims that any knowledge of these is impossible through sensory experience and is obtained only through the direct revelation of God.

The downside of this, of course, is that the Muslims also claim direct revelation of God.