I’ve been reading an interesting book entitled, Grand Strategies, which posits that diplomacy is more like literature than science, true, but also that the states of the world, and their populations, have been cut from their moorings by globalization—a kind of mix-master of cultures.
I reject post-modernism and its siblings routinely in this blog. I do this because I reject its assumption that people cannot reliably center their lives despite the disintegrating culture all around them, and apparently all around the world. It seems our options boil down to: (1) trust that we have some capacity to know truth well enough to reliably orient our lives; (2) not trust that we have some capacity to know truth well enough to reliably orient our lives because there is no center to hold, no truth worth knowing other than all is flux, including ourselves.
Living without God is living in Pandemonium, a place of chaos, i.e., where nothing has priority because everything is equal. Intellectual elites have largely rejected God and, after repeating the original fall, are mysteriously surprised to find themselves in Pandemonium. Average people seek solace in their religion, drugs or anger as their leaders fail them, but only religion offers the hope of a home port in the storm because it seeks eternal truth, natural law.
I am not crusading for a particular religion, only that we are in trouble and need to admit the limitation of our reason honestly. We also need to realize that we have cause to hope that we can find what we need. Art, beauty in all its multiple forms, provides the inspiration needed to hope, and hope provides an orientation.
No. 23: Is our culture dying? (continued)
I’ve been reading an interesting book entitled, Grand Strategies, which posits that diplomacy is more like literature than science, true, but also that the states of the world, and their populations, have been cut from their moorings by globalization—a kind of mix-master of cultures.
I reject post-modernism and its siblings routinely in this blog. I do this because I reject its assumption that people cannot reliably center their lives despite the disintegrating culture all around them, and apparently all around the world. It seems our options boil down to: (1) trust that we have some capacity to know truth well enough to reliably orient our lives; (2) not trust that we have some capacity to know truth well enough to reliably orient our lives because there is no center to hold, no truth worth knowing other than all is flux, including ourselves.
Living without God is living in Pandemonium, a place of chaos, i.e., where nothing has priority because everything is equal. Intellectual elites have largely rejected God and, after repeating the original fall, are mysteriously surprised to find themselves in Pandemonium. Average people seek solace in their religion, drugs or anger as their leaders fail them, but only religion offers the hope of a home port in the storm because it seeks eternal truth, natural law.
I am not crusading for a particular religion, only that we are in trouble and need to admit the limitation of our reason honestly. We also need to realize that we have cause to hope that we can find what we need. Art, beauty in all its multiple forms, provides the inspiration needed to hope, and hope provides an orientation.