As a very amateur student of history, that is to say a “hardened realist,” these times aren’t unusually evil. Yes, we butcher people in large numbers with nary a thought. Yes immoral and amoral behavior is rampant. But for context, compare our society to the heyday of the roman empire. Talk about a truly evil bunch of bastards.
That said, even if these are unusually evil times, what good does that knowledge do us? So our society is super duper, extra special evil. Do we get some sort of prize? Do we get a new and improved circle of hell?
I’m of the opinion that what we do in identifying how an evil manifests itself and how we address it is much more important than qualitatively evaluating the relative level of evil outstanding.
In my view, most evil that we see seems to be expressed in caesars actions. Yet we debate all sorts of artifices to restrain caesar, or how X candidate or Y candidate would be a better representative of caesar, or how some pretty words on parchment will somehow restrain caesar.
The problem is perhaps a bit more simple than that.
Great post, Laz. Thanks. This government is most evil in the history of the republic for the reasons you state and…
The treason to the republic is continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, media-complicit, representative-enabled, ongoing…
1/2 of the greatest crime couple in the history of the republic is running for president. The other, has been.
Also, American foreign policy is FUBAR.
Great post Laz. Keep looking up. This world will only get worse, but it also means that Satan’s time is short.
For decades we [the God-fearing, middle-class populace] were so busy being bemused, we forgot to be alarmed. Put to sleep with our first world creature comforts, amusements and the carping between Catholics and Protestant sects while blaming the Jews for everything. MHO is - WWII should have been the wake-up call for future generations to see the workings of evil when it was up front personal and in your face aggressive. We did for awhile, then we began to forget. Not too dissimilar to our 9/11 attack. We have already begun to forget. Evil is again walking to and fro in the land. Solution? Simple...turn our face back to God. Embrace the 10 commandments as the rules of the road and the sermon on the mount as our moral compass. For those of us here, who are non-Christian, following the above two listed suggestions can’t be all that bad or wrong. They have a few thousand years of proven efficacy, after all; no matter who was the messager. The message goes back to the giver- God. Thanks Laz for your timely comments. Excellent as always.