tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1746854805899498950..comments2024-03-28T16:35:26.665+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The saddest thing of the past 25 years - the unthinking, unrepented, almost universal drift Leftward of once-decent people and institutions into a whirlpool of the inversion of GoodBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-17318201905019873662014-12-10T19:30:56.679+00:002014-12-10T19:30:56.679+00:00The reason this evil is so pervasive is that it ta...The reason this evil is so pervasive is that it targets the human self-esteem. The ego can consume all if given license, but that requires turning its back on reality. However, these people are systematically starved of reasons to like themselves, and then given an easy option out. And so they drift over to the side that promises success without the high cost of self-challenge. Like in the former USSR, the hierarchy rewards its own and rejects all who do not parrot the absurd dogma. That further helps the decay.Brett Stevenshttp://www.amerika.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47018734931600093572014-12-10T12:49:09.372+00:002014-12-10T12:49:09.372+00:00Note Added Above: I used always to be referencing ...Note Added Above: I used always to be referencing Nihilism by Eugene Rose (later Father Seraphim Rose) - http://www.oodegr.co/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm#V. - but I still regard this small book as the best and deepest description of the scope and nature of that modern malaise which I call secular Leftism (or political correctness). Inter alia he explains why the above mass apostasy from The Good has happened, even/ especially among erstwhile kindly, decent folk: <br /><br />Nihilism has become, in our time, so widespread and pervasive, has entered so thoroughly and so deeply into the minds and hearts of all men living today, that there is no longer any "front" on which it may be fought; and those who think they are fighting it are most often using its own weapons, which they in effect turn against themselves...<br /><br />Nihilism is but one side of [the modern] Revolution. Violence and negation are, to be sure, a preliminary work; but this work is only part of a much larger plan whose end promises to be, not something better, but something incomparably worse than the age of Nihilism. If in our own times there are signs that the era of violence and negation is passing, this is by no means because Nihilism is being "overcome" or "outgrown," but because its work is all but completed and its usefulness is at an end. The Revolution, perhaps, begins to move out of its malevolent phase and into a more "benevolent" one--not because it has changed its will or its direction, but because it is nearing the attainment of the ultimate goal which it has never ceased to pursue; fat with its success, it can prepare to relax in the enjoyment of this goal...<br /><br />Nihilism is, most profoundly, a spiritual disorder, and it can be overcome only by spiritual means; and there has been no attempt whatever in the contemporary world to apply such means.<br /><br /><br />The Nihilist disease is apparently to be left to "develop" to its very end; the goal of the Revolution, originally the hallucination of a few fevered minds, has now become the goal of humanity itself. Men have become weary; the Kingdom of God is too distant, the Orthodox Christian way is too narrow and arduous. The Revolution has captured the "spirit of the age," and to go against this powerful current is more than modern men can do, for it requires precisely the two things most thoroughly annihilated by Nihilism: Truth and faith.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12087032997617789582014-12-10T09:25:57.127+00:002014-12-10T09:25:57.127+00:00Evil is sort of a profound greed. a greed so stron...Evil is sort of a profound greed. a greed so strong that it cannot see something but for wanting it, and being unable to obtain it, destroy it.<br /><br />This classic definition of evil is EXACTLY the mental framework those who follow the cult of leftism embrace.<br /><br />It IS evil. Evil in purest form. From the devout belief that embryos don't have souls to the hatred of all things masculine or constructive, the spiral continues.It is a seductive call, and the truest shame of all is that those striving hardest towards good are the ones most easily seduced into the evil...<br /><br />The worst shame is that when Sodom and Gamora fall again, it is going to take the spirits of those who wish to be decent with them.Brigadonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-41889383448186735702014-12-10T05:30:03.635+00:002014-12-10T05:30:03.635+00:00Thanks for the comments. There always was a lot of...Thanks for the comments. There always was a lot of bad stuff going on. But what is worst was seeing so many good friends and beloved institutions go this way. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-44417661751561456402014-12-09T22:15:58.340+00:002014-12-09T22:15:58.340+00:00When I was in college in the late sixties at the U...When I was in college in the late sixties at the University of Utah, it was not uncommon for LDS General Authorities to state that the standards of the world would get much worse in the future and that the Latter-day Saints would stand out by merely holding the line, so to speak.<br /><br />I more or less believed that prophecy, but it has come to pass in my lifetime. See http://relationshipsinamerica.com/ for some details. <br /><br />There are still many groups and individuals rightly upholding time-honored standards, but they are doing so amidst strong contrary winds. <br /><br /><br />Leonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-29288239272824977912014-12-09T17:12:19.837+00:002014-12-09T17:12:19.837+00:00I am 26 years old. This post expresses the traject...I am 26 years old. This post expresses the trajectory I have witnessed and experienced coming of age. A time without nihilistic inversion is unknown to me and my generational cohorts. Thanks for your good work. Brandonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-55980833123569245872014-12-09T09:54:27.584+00:002014-12-09T09:54:27.584+00:00God bless you, Sir!God bless you, Sir!Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-23687452570517361062014-12-09T06:53:10.467+00:002014-12-09T06:53:10.467+00:00Your words express my thoughts. Therefore, our can...Your words express my thoughts. Therefore, our cannot have arisen from within either of us. They must have an external source.<br /><br />If we do not follow God's will, we shall surely be led by other, sinister spiritual forces. I believe this is what is happening to our public institutions, churches, media, etc.<br /><br />Courage, sir. Let us pray:<br /><br />O ALMIGHTY God, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to those who truly repent; Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory; through the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Gary Sevennoreply@blogger.com