The Logoscide of the West

In the previous post we touched on the slow-motion intellectual, spiritual, and civilizational suicide that has been occurring over the past sixty years or so. 

Of course, that’s a somewhat arbitrary date, since the roots of the revolution and brutes of the devolution go back to time immemorial, but that’s when the assisted suicide movement openly declared its desire and intention to euthanize Christendom, AKA the West.

Afterwards the struggle went back and forth until we elected our first openly suicidal president in 2008. Since then, the movement has accelerated, but wait a minute! November 8 will determine whether eros or thanatos has the upper hand, and hot dog, it looks like love’s a-winnin’!

Nevertheless, even if eros prevails, don’t confuse it with a victory or even a ceasefire. For these two are always a-warrin’ and a-tuggin', one agin t’other. Old thanatos may be down for the count, but don’t count him out just yet.

Anyway, as we said, since the intellect is free, it is free to destroy itself.

But is this actually freedom? It can only be regarded as such in a cosmos that has been turned upside down and inside out, and drained of all transcendent meaning. In a properly bright-side up, hierarchical cosmos, life and truth are situated above freedom: if there is no truth, nor are we free. 

After all, you can’t exercise your freedom if you aren’t alive, nor is freedom good for anything if it isn't teleologically ordered to truth. If not ordered to truth, then we’re not even unfree nor even lost, rather, just the anti-Word incarnate. 

Ah, little lads and lasses, I see you’re still starin’ at my fingers. Well, it’s not just love & hate that are always a-wrasslin' and fussin', but Word and anti-Word, and not until, I don’t know, Nietzsche, did the Voice of the Abyss become a movement and not just a diagnosis.

Since then, how many diagnoses have become movements? Paranoia, narcissism, autogynephilia, misandry, hysteria, homosexuality, sociopathy, penis envy… In my lifetime, the DSM has become the Democrat platform.

Anyway, it is only thanks to the Word that man made such remarkable progress beginning only 50,000 years or so ago. In a book that asks the question, What Is Lonergan Up To in Insight, the author writes of how

Insight is usually a relatively permanent acquisition. Once one has understood, that insight may usually be counted on as a background for future learning (Tekippe).

In this regard, insight is quite different from mere memory, in that it suddenly sees the pattern or connection between the parts, at which point the parts can be forgotten, or at least fade into the background. 

For example, last night I was watching The Godfather with the boy, and he had the insight that the story of Michael is the same as the story of Walter White: both men start out innocent before breaking bad and turning into monsters. 

Regarding insight, 

What is true for the individual is also true for the society and the race. Thus the achievements and breakthroughs of one generation become the background insights of the next, allowing a constant forward progress. If this were not so, each generation would have to start from the same place, so the human race would never escape from the Stone Age (ibid.).

Aaaaaand, here we are. 

It’s not so much that we’re in the Stone Age. Rather, when the tower of the West comes down, its pieces are dispersed in space. Note, for example, how Obama and now Biden want to ease the way for Iran to obtain nukes, meaning that the highest technology mingles with the lowest barbarism, so it is simultaneously 2022 and 700, and the distance of 13 centuries is eradicated.

In short, we are giving away the insights of Western civilization to civilizations that did not and could not have have come up with them. It's the same when we hand over America to woke proglodytes. 

Above we alluded to the intrinsic relationship between freedom and truth. In the West, science flourished only as a consequence of independent minds free to pursue it in a disinterested way. To put it mildly, this is not how Iran acquired its scientific knowledge.  

Now, once seen, one cannot “unsee” the rug that pulls the cosmos together. However it is possible for someone to steal or destroy the rug, in which case we are plunged back into a room or perhaps even toilet full of random stuff with no connection to unify it.

Who stole the rug? I think you possess sufficient insight to figure that out on your own.