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
Authority lives in the Hearts of the Believers.
The Face of the Christ is the Face of the Creature.
The Motherland is Who She is, She cannot be transformed.
John Hinderaker placed this post on Power Line on Tuesday 28SEP10. The post contained these sentences:
The Golden Rule is a fine idea, but it is not a principle of Christianity. Nor did Jesus ever say that we should be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers; Obama apparently referred to the story of Cain and Abel.
On Wednesday 29SEP10 and subsequently, the post contains these sentences:
The Golden Rule is a fine idea, but it is not a principle of unique to Christianity. Nor did Jesus ever say that we should be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers; Obama apparently referred to the story of Cain and Abel.
Yes, and the US Constitution and US jurisprudence are unrelated to English Common Law.
And the Old Testament is not an equal member, with the New Testament, of the Christian Canon, nor is the Parable of the Good Samaritan, nor is the query of the rich man on how to get into the kingdom of heaven (which does not equal “heaven,” even in First Century Essene/Christian eschatology).
OOOOOOOOKAAAAAY ….. So John corrected one howler and left standing another. And he did not see the critical error, that the personality claims to have chosen Christianity. Now, no one chooses Christianity, no one ever can or ever has. Christianity chooses one, or does not.
Pity lawyers know as little about theology as theologians do about law. Or better, pity lawyers know as little about justice as theologians do about reality.
The nation’s academic curriculum cries out for reformation towards the unity of thoroughness, and with that, brand new accrediting organizations to match and foster. Our educated classes are an ill-formed cement suit, un-self-critical. The nation has been cheated by her clergy/professoriate, who chased after flickers of notoriety they called prominence.
We’re back to fundamentals now: where is authority?, what is the Face of the Christ?, what is the Base and what is the Mission?
We have seen in the open what these things are not. We have to say what they are, really are.
People are chasing about to find what is true. They will never find it.
People are spending around to have what is satisfying. They will never get it.
People are looking for God here or there or over there. He is not there, or here.
People are hoping to rest. They cannot in time.
People want what is authentic to take care of them. There is not such and it cannot, or will not.
The Face Of The Christ Is The Face Of The Creature
Update 1: Glenn Greenwald, when he’s right, he’s right:
The parallels between the U.K.’s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.’ even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles) aggressively unified across ideological lines in opposition to both. Supporters of Brexit and Trump were continually maligned by the dominant media narrative (validly or otherwise) as primitive, stupid, racist, xenophobic, and irrational. In each case, journalists who spend all day chatting with one another on Twitter and congregating in exclusive social circles in national capitals — constantly re-affirming their own wisdom in an endless feedback loop — were certain of victory. Afterward, the elites whose entitlement to prevail was crushed devoted their energies to blaming everyone they could find except for themselves, while doubling down on their unbridled contempt for those who defied them, steadfastly refusing to examine what drove their insubordination. The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. . . . Trump vowed to destroy the system that elites love (for good reason) and the masses hate (for equally good reason), while Clinton vowed to manage it more efficiently.
Update 2: Professor Roberto de Mattei: Resistance And Fidelity To The Church In Times Of Crisis
Update 3: Over the past two years the increasingly skeptical citizenry of the United States and Europe has been treated to a stream of op-eds and television appearances lamenting the looming collapse of the liberal world order, to be accompanied by a surge of illiberalism, nationalism, and fringe politics. Rarely, however, does such hand-wringing stray beyond shopworn comparisons of the “complex interdependence” of the glorious past and the parochialism and narrow-mindedness of the current era. In truth, we are not witnessing a dramatic systemic change driven by conniving external forces, but a meltdown of political authority in the West caused by the relatively straightforward indolence of its political class. Our troubles are less about liberalism’s decline or the ascendancy of left or right politics. Simply put, the citizenry in the West has been frustrated for decades with its elites’ inability to deliver workable solutions to the problems of slow growth, deindustrialization, immigration, and the overall decline of self-confidence across the West.
The legitimacy, and hence stability, of the international system rests to a degree on the ability of the leading powers to deliver at home—or, simply put, to govern. The increasing volatility of international politics is in part a byproduct of systemic dysfunction across the West at the level of domestic politics. Americans and Europeans alike are running out of patience with the governing class. In Europe, the government’s inability to control mass migration or develop effective solutions to domestic terrorism are two important drivers of the growing public discontent. In the United States the middle and working classes have been frustrated for decades with the government’s inability to remedy de-industrialization, urban decay, and declining economic opportunity.
Glenn Reynolds comments: And in both places, as the “elite” has grown demonstrably less competent and honest, it has also grown visibly more contemptuous of the people it purports to govern. That contempt is, I think, the most poisonous part of the whole equation.
My essays on the question of authority are here.
Update 4: As stated in the first sentence of this post, the question of authority and its location is the central one of this era. Here from Glenn Reynolds is more evidence of the accuracy of that observation.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
