Timothy Birdnow

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." ~Dostoyevsky

This encapsulates modern Man's ennui and anomie. Nobody has a reason to live any longer, especially our young who find themselves imprisoned in a gilded cage, with a host of amusements that mean absolutely nothing and provide them only with escapist entertainment.

John Lennon asked us to imagine. Imagine a world with no God or Heaven, no country, no religion. Well, he got his wish and look how it has turned out! Modern Man is lost, utterly lost. Wandering in a wasteland of images and sounds and insane thoughts and desperately seeking things to provide life with meaning. But life has no meaning in and of itself. Meaning comes from other sources than society and the entertainment industry. Meaning comes from building for others, from creating as an act of love, from self-sacrifice and being of service to others. But most of all it comes from the knowledge of God and that the work we do is ultimatley for God. Anything less is a waste of time.

Which is what modern Man does. The young in particular are removed from those things which are not a waste of time, and that is not their fualt but it is their fate. They have been told there is no concrete reality and one persons reality is as real as anothers. So there is no Truth to fight for. They are told that they are racist/sexist/homophobes and that is the worst thing to be and their task in life is to fight against their "immoral" nature, a nature that they have been told to embrace in other areas as an immutable part of their character. So they are to resist parts of themselves and embrace other parts, often bad parts that they sense they ought not.

So their minds are divided, split into segments that ignore the totality. In 1948 George Orwell named this phenomenon "double think" and he saw it was the coming thing in the socialist camp. He was right. Double think requires ignoring contradictions in what is espoused by the society and compartmentalizing ideas. But human beings cannot so easily compartmentalize so much. They are forced to lie to themselves and then they know it is a lie they are telling themselves and this further fragments their minds and hearts. They despise themselves as liars.

But then they cannot admit they are lying to themselves so many times they turn this anger outward. It's why we see so many school shootings these days. These kids are unable to repent because they have been taught to believe these contradictory lies. And they have been taught to resent and despise Christianity, which is their way out.

So they are trapped inside a kind of Lewis Carroll landscape in their own skulls and escape is impossible because they can only fall back on what they have been taught, which is a series of lies and distortions.

Nothing they do seems to matter and they lose all sense of purpose, and if they do feel a sense of purpose (usually, and as was planned by the Left, a "social justice" purpose which in the end does not satisfy them as there is no reason to say social justice is superior in any way to anything else) it is generally weak and ultimately pointless.

They want the permanent things and want to feel their lives have meaning. But their lives cannot have meaning in a world that isn't real and that is exactly what they see this world as not being.

Obviously there are people in this world to whom this does not apply, but so many of our fellows are lost souls and will remain so as they reject salvation because society rejects salvation. And only there can meaning be found.

What brings satisfaction to life? Faith,a sense of purpose, work that is meaningful and helps your family and friends and society at large, family, proper education (meaning self-education), order and discipline in one's mind and soul,self government and independence of thought, and a host of other things that we used to have. But we no longer have them because the forces of Modernism and atheism have systematically purged society of these things, thinking that the best is a world of amusements where the individual is part of a collective group and he exercises his lusts and desires and lets others make the decisions for him. But that is at best a gilded cage, a horrible trap. In many ways a soft prison is a worse fate than the boot in the face type Fascism. It is a prison of one's own mind.

So Dostoyevsky saw the truth and John Lennon believed the lie. Lennon and Lenin and all those who have hatred for the God of the Bible have torn the guts right out of our civilization, ripped it's heart out as effectively as any Aztec priest did to a sacrificial offering. And as the West - once called Christendom - continues the long horrible slide into this plastic paradise which is in reality Hell it simultaneously crumbles in every and any aspect of life. Our money is worthless? That came from our unwillingness to believe in reality and our greed. Our schools are unsafe? That came from our unwillingness to tell children right and wrong. Our streets are dangerous and full of poop? We refuse to accept a Godly moral and legal standard and say no.

And without that structure people find themselves forced to reinvent the wheel. But they are not being given even the most basic directions to finding meaning in their lives. They are flailing about like drowning swimmers and those who should be there to help them along - teachers, civil authorities, even priests and ministers - are tossing them rocks rather than life preservers. Nobody wants to tell them that there is indeed a right and wrong and that real satisfaction in life, real meaning, comes from following the path of righteousness. Moral and spiritual relativism is like a tarpit for the human beast.

Western civilization was so successful because it was grounded on our belief in God and the Bible and that reality is a reflection on what God has wrought - not our own puny beliefs or desires or ideas. But we became puffed up by our success and many sought to take credit for what God had done for us. Now all we believe in is our own vain selves and some mystical idea of "progress" and technology. It is a poor god though and deep down everyone knows it.

Is it any wonder why we seem to be in a death spiral?

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