June 15, 2022
By Michael Smith"
Victor Davis Hanson, possibly the greatest living American historian, said something that stuck with me:
"Science is dying; superstition disguised as morality is returning. And we’ll all soon become poorer, angrier, and more divided."
I’m sure VDH wouldn’t go as far as I would, but what he is describing is a descent into a modern version of the Dark Ages.
I don’t recall a period during my lifetime when the world had so much promise, prosperity, and potential, only to uniformly be burdened with so many terrible leaders who controlled so much power.
It is like going into a kindergarten classroom filled with kids of the rich and famous and dropping an open box of fragmentation grenades in the middle of the room for them to play with.
From the "meh†leadership of Europe and the UK to a Western Hemisphere "blessed†with commies, incompetents, and incompetent commies, the leadership cupboard is bare. All the members of the British Commonwealth, past and present, have gone nuts – Australia and New Zealand are firmly in the grip of Mask Nazis and enviofascists. Of course, Putin, Xi, and the Mad Mullahs have always been megalomaniacs and the Middle East under Islam has been a powder keg since the discovery of oil.
I guess this is what happens when Biden fulfills Obama’s "fundamental transformationâ€
It is as if we were rocking along, going to space, curing diseases,
creating prosperity and suddenly, we just lost interest. The world went
from Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman to a sullen teenager who
doesn’t want to do his homework and just wants to play Call of Duty all
day.
There was a scene in 2015’s continuation of the Jurassic Park
franchise, Jurassic World after the genetically engineered Indominus
Rex escapes containment that captures some of what we are facing with
our next few generations. Chris Pratt’s character, Owen Grady, says:
"You made a genetic hybrid, raised it in captivity. She is seeing all
of this for the first time. She does not even know what she is. She
will kill everything that moves.â€
Far from a plot device, it is a
fact that animals raised in captivity lack the coping skills for a
world outside the fences. A 2008 study conducted at the University of
Exeter in England of over 2,000 captive animals (all carnivores)
released from captivity found that less than a third of them survived
even the first 6 months. Not only do the offspring of captive animals
lose their ability to hunt and forage for themselves, but they also
lose the ability to care for their own offspring – leading to entire
generations incapable of independent survival in their natural
environment.
The animal family becomes dependent on a third party
for individual survival and eventually for the survival of their
offspring. In the early days of the animal rights movements, when
animals were released into the wild after a life of captivity, many of
the animals were quickly killed by predators or were oblivious to
hazards that they had never seen, like those posed by roadways or
automobiles.
The West, and America in particular, has essentially
raised several generations of humans in an enclosed paddock, fed,
clothed, and isolated them from the vicissitudes of the world, and just
like the fictional cinematic dinosaur, they don’t even know what they
are, so they perceive everything that moves as an enemy - or food.
This is what happens when intellect is given over to an emotion that
wants things that are not possible, thinks just because they want
something to be true, it is, and believes the stronger the emotion, the
truer the truth. Rather than reasoning a way around impossibility, it
is an intellect that gets frustrated and just stops, shuts down and
pouts.
That is the earmark of a world that has replaced a system of
reason based on facts and reality with one based on emotion and fantasy.
It just seems so dumb – and it isn’t so much that communism is growing,
although it is, it is that this form of communism is stupid,
directionless, and feckless. It is so ridiculous and absurd, that it
doesn’t even know what it is.
At least during the Cold War, the
USSR was a serious and predictable enemy, so much so, even Democrats at
one time understood the stakes. Today’s communism is the tool of a
child, with the same variabilities and a two-year-old in a candy store.
Cultures around the world have given over to superstition,
unseriousness and fad, elevating emotion over logic – and the results
are unfortunately, all too predictable.
There are so many parallels
between today and the aftermath of the end of Pax Romana. After Rome
fell, the world fragmented into confusion and darkness for several
hundreds of years. Science, literature, and human progress took a back
seat to fear, poverty and loathing. One wonders if the end of Pax
Americana will have the same effect.
In my opinion, the perfect
storm of such terrible leadership around the globe might well produce
one of two kinds of "dark agesâ€. One possibility is the one we
traditionally considered, the one where civilization regresses for a
time, falling back into more of a tribal existence, where going into
survival mode inhibits learning and progress. The other possibility is
that we just get stuck where we are, we get to keep all our
techo-gadgets, but our progress is mired in frivolous, unserious
pursuits. Rather than regressing, we simply stop moving forward, we
stop improving.
As in both cases, there will always be a class
sitting on top that doesn’t suffer the way most of the world does. In
my mind, that class is the WEF/Davos crowd. I believe the latter "dark
age†scenario is exactly what they are planning and for now, there is
nobody to stop them.
That "stopper†was once America.
We can be that again.
If we choose to be.
Tim adds:
Leftism is the afterbirth of the Protestant Reformation. They used the tools of the Reformation (the printing press, establishing educational systems, etc.) but removed G-D from Protestantism. The end result is an atheistic worldview that twists Christianity into an obscene shape. Things like Christian charity have become bloated government programs which enslave people to big government and make everyone dependent on stealing the wealth of their neighborsm for instance. They take the Christian Apocalypse and twist it into a bunch of end time prophesies like Global Warming. They offer absolution through political correctness and "wokeness". Modern Progressivism is, as Ross Douthat pointed out, a Christian heresy. It is Christianity without Christ, and as such it is diseased.
And all the fruits thereof; the sexual revolution leading to the not just tolerance for perversions butt he open celebration of them (did anyone catch Christina Aguillera at Pridefest wearing a strapon?) This has led to moral and even intellectual relativism, where we cannot even agree on what a woman is.
We are now enjoying a kind of intellectual witchcraft, with the Human Will being the sole determinant of reality according to the Left. You are a woman if you ThINK you are a woman! In the past that was an attempt at witchcraft, at altering reality to suit you by your belief.
All of this stems from the same rotten rooot. Until that disease is amputated from the body of the human family we will be facing a horrible disaster. We have to hope that disaster is emeliorated or avoided before it comes, but that means a full rejection of the last two centuries of beliefs. As the people who promote this are now in charge of all of our institutioins I see little chance of resolving this without disaster.
Like the Israelites, who had to wander in the desert 40 years so those who were corrupted by Egypt would die out, so too it will be for us, I fear. A dark age is immanent.
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Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (pdDZ2)
In Mr. Smith's Facebook post a woman (I suspect she was Jewish as she used the G-D, which is why I used it in the thread as well) said basically God wouldn't do that. ??? I reminded her of what happened to the ten northern tribes; they are completely gone from history now. And what horrible suffering the Jewish People experienced over the decades.
It is foolish to think God will not punish the world and particularly those whom He blessed so much as he did us.
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