Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Where Is The Insanity Coming From?
SEE HERE Civilization is not something you get in your blood when you are born. You have to be educated to civilization because underlying the patina of civilization is the naked ape surviving by his cunning in collaboration with his tribe. Our education system no longer teaches virtue. I guess that is too much like religion. It lies to students about how excellent they are and everyone gets a trophy just for showing up. But the reality is quite different. Civilization is built on a tradition of values that have largely been forgotten. When did you last hear about duty? What does the word "honor" mean to you? What is a virtue? I'm reading C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man right now for a book club and Lewis is talking about objective values, what he characterizes as The Tao. Our slick zombified pleasure saturated society no longer honors virtue or duty and it laughs at patriotism. The death of our civilization will surely follow if it is not already too late. MORE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
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