Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Recently I noticed that my lefty friends have completely given up on questioning authority. Now they are mouthpieces for it. I tweeted this observation with the pithy statement, “Everyone finds a religion.”
Then, perhaps thanks to serendipity, a family member sent me these passages from Francis Schaeffer. Published in 1976, Schaeffer nailed what would unfold .
As we consider the coming of an elite, authoritarian state, to fill the vacuum left by the loss of Christian principles, we must not think naively of the models of Stalin and Hitler. We must think rather of manipulative authoritarian government. Modern governments have forms of manipulation at their disposal which the world has never known before.
…to quote Eric Hoffer, “When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.”
At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between an authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will accept it—from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of some political system, business and affairs of daily life.
Everyone finds a religion, but elevating Caesar to a deity never ends well.
The left are mouthpieces for it, because they have the authority they want now, and they can sense the sand shifting beneath their feet as well.
While old christianity (or any masculine religion) provides a firm foundation for a country, that’s not all of it
A country must have a purpose to be great.
A major problem this country has had since the fall of the Berlin Wall is a lack of purpose, a lack of vision. No manifest destiny.
And both the tradcon and liberal attempts to make one have failed utterly.
Stop global warming, save the environement, end poverty.
Lame.
Spread democracy,
Eh, that’s just spreading McDonald/Disney of America all over.
A purpose has to be something that a man feels in his bones, know it will come to fruition if the future, if not for him, his sons and grandsons.
No one has that.
What they have is fear they feel in their marrow.
Thus enters the moral equivalence of war, except it doesn’t work nearly as well as the real thing. (And obviously nation-building doesn’t work to that end either.)
I linked this on the Faceborg. No comments. They must be ashamed for someone to call them out.
Disturbing – we’re already well on the road to tyranny, but while people still have 3 meals a day, cable TV and iPads, it’s difficult to awaken any concern, even as each successive outrage becomes worse than the last. Those of us that do care are paralysed by the apathy of others and the temptation to feel that internet activism makes a difference. All carefully considered by the architects of our tyranny, no doubt.
We seem to assume that tyranny just leaps up on us one day, but that’s often not the case. In “Defying Hitler” (great memoir of a thinking individualist during Hitler’s rise to power), he describes how normal things seemed for an extended time, even after the Nazis took over.
He didn’t realize things had really changed until the SS broke up a dance. He asked the SS officer if they really had to leave. He responded “We are ALLOWING you to leave.” At that moment he knew he had gone from citizen to subject, even though the process actually started long before that.
Meanwhile, I am sad to see that “The Woman and the Dragon” blog has been deleted. One of the best.
Very sad deletion and no one seems to really know why. I hadn’t read recent comments. Some have speculated that they had gotten ridiculous.
You have the best fake email address that I’ve ever seen.
Church News: His Majesty the King Cuong Truong created a character name Actor Tom Truong for his upcoming real life horror movie Jesus Christ reborn: The Second Coming of Christ. It’s a real life movie about the son of God using Knights created by fate to help 7+ Billion slaves fight the devil worshipers cult illuminati aka (the Bilderberg Group).
‘Recently I noticed that my lefty friends have completely given up on questioning authority. Now they are mouthpieces for it.’
Politically left-leaning people are more likely to be feminine anyway (just look at John Stewart, hardly a masculine man), and females on the whole yearn for stability and order, which usually come from being ruled over by either a man or a government (bureaugamy).