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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
My old friend Bob Belvedere is professing as a Theologian in his post titled On The Hatred Of Beauty. Well-worth the read with appreciation. Bob is breaking lines and exploiting openings.
With edits here, I commented as follows:
This is a profound post. You took Evi’s comment exactly where it needed to be taken. From a theologian of some ability here is parallel argument which parallels also Shermlaw’s comment above.
I like most about this post that it thinks beyond the din of battle to the great structures and powers of life against which and against whom the violent rage. Man can con*struct* and should, but he is not a *con*struct. He is a power of being, and truth be told, divine. Against that power — which means against that beauty — I think we shall always have, more or less puissant, kicking, biting and screaming intending disruptors. They are, in one aspect at least, a test of our constancy.
As is known, those disruptors, those ones hell bent on raising hell just for the hell of it, specialize in twisting, subverting and suffocating the language of power and being. They have to, so no need to be upset about them doing so. But untwisting, reestablishing and restoring breath (Spirit) to the language of power and being is truly a divine profession. And this post is doing that. Thanks! Theologians to the front! 🙂
Related 1: Richard Fernandez writes under title The Big 21. The post is unusually vacuous for Richard. Air-headed might be a description. Still, as usual, worth rumination. I made this comment:
The vertical component of life propels the horizontal. Spiritual elegance begets material prosperity. Love propels civilization.
A century of Communist subversion allied to over a century of Jewish, Unitarian, Quaker and now Caliphist hectoring has convinced academic and sacerdotal custodians that love-spirit-transcendence is not the ground of civilizing power, that technology per se is.
It is not. The evidence is self-evident.
Someone writing as Chrysippus commented thusly:
The 21st century is exceedingly bright, it is just not focused on America any longer. The great shining flame held by lady liberty is slowly extinguishing.
The Silk road initiatives, the BRIC banking system, Eurasian logistics and trade, all are on track to catapult Eurasia into the worlds single largest self contained trade block again. It will not only change the world but the lives and lifestyles of billions for the better. It just wont include America.
America was invited to participate in these projects but refused, victim of self paranoia and hysterics. It is like watching a game show or reality show play out in geopolitics and finance in real time.
American Innovation is never contested, it is production, manufacturing, and logistics America abandoned; NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA, etc, etc have decimated the economy and we watched it happen. American banking is corrupt on world class level and we supported its demise, feeding corporate demand for higher profits at any cost.
We have the greatest nation on Paper, in practice it is different reality. The reality is about to confront Americans, as events overseas can no longer be controlled by corrupt politicians and spooks in Washington DC.
When the wool is finally lifted from voters eyes and last 50 years of corruption take hold, maybe then we will see effective and responsible participation.
To which I commented:
No, it has to do with armies and their relative moral strength. Economics are secondary to military strength. And military strength rises or falls on moral strength, which, practically, means political morality. That is, military strength depends on spiritual strength. The horizontal is charged by the vertical or it withers.
Update 1: The Blindness Of The Ideologically Bound.
Update 2: Eric Raymond: Gramscian Damage.
Update 3: Belfast Pastor Faces Prison For Grossly Offending Islam.
Update 4: Roger Kimball’s thoughts on Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace
Update 5: Scott S. Powell: The Quiet Revolution: How The New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
Update 6: Daniel Greenfield: Dear Corporate America
Mark David Hall: How Reformed Theologians’ Commitment To Self-Rule And Resisting Tyranny Helped Form America
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
