A sharp friend of mine observed many years ago that "our generation has never experienced real hardship" compared to our parents (Greatest Generation). I think he nailed it. Its our turn now. Arguably worse prospects, more at risk. Government weaponized against The People this time. $USD becoming worthless. Police state operating openly.
Cool eggplant! Cool post! As we approach this equinox we all know we are going to be tested more than ever. This test is likely long overdue. Those who are able to identify the many ways in which they are being abused are far more likely to escape from this madness and assist others in doing so. Such a clear choice and yet the lines continue to be purposely blurred.
I woke up with 9/11 listening to Amy Goodman of Pacifica fame broadcasting from the Firehouse after being locked out of WBAI. My first thought was an Auto-Golpe. I knew instantly the story was pure fiction.
Lately my reading has been philosophy more than history. Philosophy captures the depth through time in a way history does not.
Goods Displacing God
A second key theme in The Problem of Atheism emerges in Del Noce’s 1963 essay, “Notes on Western Irreligion.” From the 1930s through the early Cold War, Western nations, and especially the United States, tended to highlight their religious faith as an answer to “godless” Nazism, fascism, and Communism. But in the late 1950s, Western elites shifted. They started tuning their message to a different melody. They would beat Communism not by more God but by more goods. In other words, they would outperform “the Reds” with better science, better technology—more and better refrigerators, cars, and televisions.
It worked. Western technology created affluent societies of unparalleled abundance. This new wealth simultaneously drove Soviet Communism into the ground and rendered the God question irrelevant for tens of millions of distracted consumers. Del Noce was never a Luddite. He understood and valued technology’s many benefits. But he also saw that man’s tools tend to become, in practice, man’s objects of worship because they produce immediate, tangible results.
By comparison, the biblical God can seem much more leisurely in answering human prayers and more ambiguous in his responses. Unfortunately, the technological spirit tends toward a world where man himself becomes the raw material and victim of his tools; “a world without soul and without interiority.” Thus, in the end, technology can become “the most complete negation of the awareness of sin, because the latter cannot be cured by any technique but only by a supernatural action—namely, by grace.”
In its material success, the secularized West has become the perfect distillation of appealing, practical atheism. God is not hunted down. He’s rendered vestigial. And then he’s forgotten. That is, if not the plan, at least the effect.
Del Noce saw that man’s tools tend to become, in practice, man’s objects of worship because they produce immediate, tangible results.
A sharp friend of mine observed many years ago that "our generation has never experienced real hardship" compared to our parents (Greatest Generation). I think he nailed it. Its our turn now. Arguably worse prospects, more at risk. Government weaponized against The People this time. $USD becoming worthless. Police state operating openly.
Being on the far side of crazy for a very long time and a forward looking person I do not see that without a civil war this can end.
But I tried to put together a white paper as an action plan for a general strike in which we take them out and fix democracy.
One month of General strike with Truckers Farmers & Yellow Vests combined and we make a swift end to all of this.
Because come winter they will have the upper hand.
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/a-month-of-revenge-blueprint-for
Cool eggplant! Cool post! As we approach this equinox we all know we are going to be tested more than ever. This test is likely long overdue. Those who are able to identify the many ways in which they are being abused are far more likely to escape from this madness and assist others in doing so. Such a clear choice and yet the lines continue to be purposely blurred.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/12/79316/
I woke up with 9/11 listening to Amy Goodman of Pacifica fame broadcasting from the Firehouse after being locked out of WBAI. My first thought was an Auto-Golpe. I knew instantly the story was pure fiction.
Lately my reading has been philosophy more than history. Philosophy captures the depth through time in a way history does not.
Goods Displacing God
A second key theme in The Problem of Atheism emerges in Del Noce’s 1963 essay, “Notes on Western Irreligion.” From the 1930s through the early Cold War, Western nations, and especially the United States, tended to highlight their religious faith as an answer to “godless” Nazism, fascism, and Communism. But in the late 1950s, Western elites shifted. They started tuning their message to a different melody. They would beat Communism not by more God but by more goods. In other words, they would outperform “the Reds” with better science, better technology—more and better refrigerators, cars, and televisions.
It worked. Western technology created affluent societies of unparalleled abundance. This new wealth simultaneously drove Soviet Communism into the ground and rendered the God question irrelevant for tens of millions of distracted consumers. Del Noce was never a Luddite. He understood and valued technology’s many benefits. But he also saw that man’s tools tend to become, in practice, man’s objects of worship because they produce immediate, tangible results.
By comparison, the biblical God can seem much more leisurely in answering human prayers and more ambiguous in his responses. Unfortunately, the technological spirit tends toward a world where man himself becomes the raw material and victim of his tools; “a world without soul and without interiority.” Thus, in the end, technology can become “the most complete negation of the awareness of sin, because the latter cannot be cured by any technique but only by a supernatural action—namely, by grace.”
In its material success, the secularized West has become the perfect distillation of appealing, practical atheism. God is not hunted down. He’s rendered vestigial. And then he’s forgotten. That is, if not the plan, at least the effect.
Del Noce saw that man’s tools tend to become, in practice, man’s objects of worship because they produce immediate, tangible results.