Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
“Ghia Nodia is director of the International School of Caucasus Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and chairman of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development, an independent think tank.” He also is author of this rather remarkable examination of democracy, globalism, nationalism and post-modernism.
His exposition has five weaknesses, none lethal but together triggering (haha, got to abuse that epithet):
First, he does not mention geography’s power to mold history, especially national history both ethnic and civic.
Second, he asserts that nationalism is an exclusively modern phenomenon, dating from the French, Scottish, English and American Enlightenments of the 18th Century. Elements of his historiography, however, subvert that assertion, as well they should.
Third, he asserts that institutions of modern liberal democracy (aka nations) are of European invention, primarily French.
Fourth, he approaches but does not clarify and deploy the differences between nationalism and patriotism.
Fifth, he mentions but does not elaborate the differences between ethnic and civic nationalism.
He knows nationalism is race-based and he knows patriotism is civics-based, but he does not dilate upon those powerful phenomena and terms.
He concludes insisting, rightly, on the relevancy of the inalienable phenomenology of human nature. He deploys evolutionary biology to decisive effect in this regard.
He admits, honestly, that he has no ideas with which to felicitate constructivists (aka global governance partisans, who declare man a construct merely sans inner necessity) despondent over Brexit and POTUS Trump. He has none because there are none to be had.
His essay addresses humanism without using the word and traces the denial of estimable qualities and powers implicit to human nature to Marx without mentioning Erasmus or Abelard, or the Skeptics, although he mentions their heir Hume, but against Marx!
He cogently itemize weaknesses in constructivist/globalist doctrine, each lethal.
Still, the essay is very clearly scribed, downright, reads easily, explains social science jargon, tries to be fair and accurate and in general is an improving study. If nothing else, it illustrates the condition of the intelligent wing of the Socialist witches’ brew called Social Science. One has the impression reading him of a man devoted to deploying his profession on service of excavating for the truth.
Update 1: And as if to illustrate the contrast between globalization constructivists and national patriots, there comes this contrast between Chancellor Merkel and POTUS Trump.
Spengler: Merkel Throws Trump In The Briar Patch
Bolton to the same effect.
Update 2: The Paris Accord is statism masquerading as religion gussied up as science.
Update 3: Merkel Makes An Enemy
Update 4: China Vice Premier Sees `Unstoppable Momentum’ of Globalization
Update 5: Alastair Crooke: It’s the Beginning of the End of the Bilderberg Era
Update 6: United Nations Job Opening: Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Officer
Update 7: Justin Haskins: Global Elites Announce ‘Great Reset’ Plan—And It’s Even More Radical Than the Green New Deal
Update 8: Lianne Laurence: UN secretary general calls for “global governance” with ‘teeth’
Rye catholic parish
If Mr. Guterres wants a global government, he should encourage people to join the Catholic Church, which is God’s global government. Mass, confession, great moral teaching, and marriage, all good for everybody. Yes, we even have statues of great saints who have made the world better for everyone, such as Fr. Junipero Serra.
Peace, Fr. Matt
David R. Graham to Rye catholic parish
I appreciate your desire to co-opt the enemy’s jargon, rejigger it, and launch the result in the right direction. I think that a useful address to this situation. For example, in place of meeting the needs, one can say serving the persons, in place of global governance, one can say spiritual guidance, in place of transforming the country/world one can say purifying the heart, and in place of sustainable development one can say joy in expansion.
In the present case, the Catholic Church’s use, and more to the point The Church’s use, of the term global government is not comparable to globalists’ use of it. Switching allegiance from the latter to the former would not accomplish anything of soteriological value, which is the core and core purpose of the Catholic Church and The Church in full, the Spiritual Community. Global governance (armed) to Guterres and like cocktail Communists is not what The Peace Of Christ as the infusing medium of peace on earth and among nations means to, say, Benedict XVI.
So, I know you want to do a right thing; you even identify where and how to do it; yet in this particular I think you have not thrown that good intention into patent fact.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA