And then Elon Musk, who was also there in the stadium, said something that to my ear is similar: "He was killed because... because he was showing people the light. And he was killed by the dark." And he immediately restated his point: "Charlie was murdered by the dark for showing people the light."
Truth and beauty/Light and dark — it is emphatically not nonbinary. There is a longing for clarity — an alternative to nihilism. It is offered now, especially to the young. It is not what they have been used to hearing, and it may be exactly what they want, especially after Dark showed its eagerness to murder Light. Dark could not prove Light wrong.
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Light, dark, and the twilight fringe.
we used to know what good and evil was, but look at the threads a few down, lies are represented as truth, and vice versa,
those not filled with the Word, pursue lesser things,
Charlie was very brave in trying to change minds through speech, through logic,
Without his knowing it, Musk was being very biblical. Jesus is the light of the world and was crucified by the dark. Kirk was a devout follower of Jesus and was killed by the dark due to his faith.
which was the fate of almost all Old Testament prophets,
as Jesus spoke in his first sermon
Beauty eases the soul and an eased soul is very difficult to manipulate. That's why the systems defy or coopt beauty, enlisting the power hungry and soul frenzied folks for those tasks.
All of us can choose to be the light in someone's life. With those around you.
Or we can choose to be the dark. The hand-wringers. The always protesting. The threatening.
It's a conscious choice.
I do think that after years of nihilism and self-celebration, there is a thirst among our young for leadership. For direction. For clarity above all else. I mean...my God...we actually got to the point where we told our kids that you cannot actually define what a woman is. And those of you who think you know your gender, well...perhaps you should think twice. You'll be celebrated if you do. And you boys...well...you're just toxic, so shut up.
Clarity, leadership, direction. There is a thirst for these things. And above all...in seemingly so many, a thirst to acknowledge that maybe...just maybe there is something greater than you out there. So yes, there is a spiritual awakening happening.
We'll see how long this goes. But from what I'm seeing, it's barely just getting going. And as we all know- whenever the pendulum swings one way, inevitably it always comes back the other. It's swinging back.
Postmodern relativism probably felt super groovy back in the day, especially if the learner was also dabbling in psychedelics: look, man, there's no "truth," you can't really know anything! And when the Powers That Be in academia were ostentatiously battling a Christian strawman - that Christianity is un-nuanced, all about that skydaddy who tells moral infants what to do - I'm sure their students were all, cool, man, this is easy!
And then you find out it's also empty and deeply depressing. I think that's where we are now. It's taken three generations or so to get here, but it certainly seems that young people want to choose something besides "empty and depressing" as a framework for their lives.
The absurdity of the modern left is well-illustrated by them catapulting an absolute rock star: Tulsi Gabbard. Her address yesterday was poignant, captivating, and sincere.
St. Ignatius Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) expressed the same idea with his mediation on The Two Standards.
Are you under the Standard (in the field of battle) with God and good or with the Devil and evil?
By Marxists and modernists, Ignatius has been criticized for being too binary or black and white. In the modern world, everything has to be relative.
I should have used the term "post modern relativists."
I was Jesuit educated as well, of course the Jesuits aren't what they used to be anymore,
Althouse said...
"There is a longing for clarity — an alternative to nihilism."
Nihilists, fuck me. Say what you want about the tenets of Christian Nationalism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
One of Kirk’s foci was that Universities have turned away from the bright and the beautiful and have turned to postmodernism and moral relativism.
Nihilists can respond with Godel's theorem.
Avoid temptation, keep it real.
Well, we're big rock singers, we got golden fingers
and we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
at 10, 000 dollars a show (right)
Was truth and beauty a thing before Keats?
The dark - what communist demons feed off of.
There used to be this Dean at my college, a failed English professor kept around after not getting tenure because he was good at sucking up to administrators, who was big on the whole "experiential learning" thing--which sounds good to parents and donors, but in practice means that students put minimal effort into writing "self-reflective" essays about summer internships.
When I arrived on campus, and for years after until he retired, the Dean would always greet me (and, I assume, others) with "How's the pursuit of Truth and Beauty?" said in the most sarcastic tone he could muster.
If he thought it was laughable that I or someone like me could possibly lead students a few steps towards Truth and Beauty, well, he was being mean but he might have been right to be dismissive, because I--and everybody else who got a Ph.D. in the Humanities in an American University in the 90s was woefully under-educated for the task.
But I think he meant that the very pursuit of Truth and Beauty was laughable, and there he was completely wrong in the same way that the entire administrative class running contemporary education is wrong: If you seek to understand (or create) Truth and Beauty you may fail, but you will still end up being be able to do other useful things that are not as difficult. But if you don't even TRY, and just limit yourself to some tiny slice of human knowledge that happens to seem relevant at the exact moment that you happen to be in school, you won't end up knowing enough to accomplish anything beyond that tiny area because you never learned how to learn.
"Dark could not prove Light wrong. "
That idea has a certain resonance with something Kirk would have recognized:
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light."
Scratch an oligarch, and the blood is Zoroastrian, I guess.
Hardin: Goedel may be one of the few scientific hints at the existence of God. No system can be both complete and consistent? Sounds like proof of an imperfect world. Which could imply a perfect Creator. Why else did all the new agers cream their pants over Goedel Escher Bach? CC, JSM
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