Admittedly, I read just a handful of Camus' scribblings, but I never understood why he was considered a great thinker. Then I realized that his proponents were also the ones extolling the dreck adorning the walls of the modern art section of the local art museum. Then it all made sense.
Structuralism requires we dismantle society completely. This is where you go when you deny reality - total social destruction. So people who promote normlessness and demoralisation are heroes and geniuses.
All this comes about because the reality of human difference - which is immutable - is taboo. And so everything must go - art, beauty, sense, meaning - in order to dismantle the invisible structures which cause racism n sexism etc.
Just yesterday, a statue of the great General Robert E Lee was removed from a place of prominence and replaced with a bronze of some hitherto unknown civil rights "hero."
Exceptionalism remains in the crosshairs of the lunatic left.
Having no oil in your lamp is "denying reality." Rushing to buy the oil from merchants is going to the philosophies of men. Grace, it turns out, is not transactional.
In the office today, I was introduced to a visitor from HQ. As we chatted about prior work histories and current stuff, things got more personal...our ages, marital status, children. I have none, you see, and never will, and am officially a senior citizen this year. With both parents dead and buried, and being the youngest of 8, I said, "my siblings and I kinda look around and wonder who's gonna be the first of us to go. To be honest I wouldn't mind if it were me. Parents are gone, I have no kids, what am I still doing here?" It hit me. It's like I don't believe in The Cathoic Thing anymore. I certainly have been struggling with what a waste my life has been and how The Gay Thing for 2-1/2 decades set me on a course of self-destruction, but coming out on the other side after a reversion to the faith, just what exactly am I living for? I suppose we each come to that question (not a bad thing), but to realize you are in fact the withering unproductive fig tree is bracing. If it weren't for the TLM, I'd be a goner.
Admittedly, I read just a handful of Camus' scribblings, but I never understood why he was considered a great thinker. Then I realized that his proponents were also the ones extolling the dreck adorning the walls of the modern art section of the local art museum. Then it all made sense.
Structuralism requires we dismantle society completely. This is where you go when you deny reality - total social destruction. So people who promote normlessness and demoralisation are heroes and geniuses.
All this comes about because the reality of human difference - which is immutable - is taboo. And so everything must go - art, beauty, sense, meaning - in order to dismantle the invisible structures which cause racism n sexism etc.
Just yesterday, a statue of the great General Robert E Lee was removed from a place of prominence and replaced with a bronze of some hitherto unknown civil rights "hero."
Exceptionalism remains in the crosshairs of the lunatic left.
Having no oil in your lamp is "denying reality." Rushing to buy the oil from merchants is going to the philosophies of men. Grace, it turns out, is not transactional.
That is beautifully well put Laura. Thank you.
Best wishes for a blessed Advent and a merry Christmas, Frank!
Thank you Bear - and the same to you and yours!
In the office today, I was introduced to a visitor from HQ. As we chatted about prior work histories and current stuff, things got more personal...our ages, marital status, children. I have none, you see, and never will, and am officially a senior citizen this year. With both parents dead and buried, and being the youngest of 8, I said, "my siblings and I kinda look around and wonder who's gonna be the first of us to go. To be honest I wouldn't mind if it were me. Parents are gone, I have no kids, what am I still doing here?" It hit me. It's like I don't believe in The Cathoic Thing anymore. I certainly have been struggling with what a waste my life has been and how The Gay Thing for 2-1/2 decades set me on a course of self-destruction, but coming out on the other side after a reversion to the faith, just what exactly am I living for? I suppose we each come to that question (not a bad thing), but to realize you are in fact the withering unproductive fig tree is bracing. If it weren't for the TLM, I'd be a goner.