tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8680080017867166996..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Will King Arthur save us?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-15593510447714109712021-01-15T18:46:14.986+00:002021-01-15T18:46:14.986+00:00@GFC - Yes, for example, in the UK we lack any app...@GFC - Yes, for example, in the UK we lack any apparent totalitarian resistance from Christians; the few who have publicly resisted the totalitarianism have done so from a left-libertarian perspective (e.g. Piers Corbyn or David Icke), which perspective (it seems to me, as someone who was of that ilk for a fair while) concedes so much ground to the mainstream (especially wrt the sexual revolution and antiracism) that it cannot possibly serve as a strong, clear national motivator. <br /><br />One thing I learned during my 20 years of political 'activity' is that hardly anybody really cares about 'freedom', and of those who do care - they don't care very much. All libertarians sell-out at the first whiff of personal power, or for immediate expediency. e.g. our current PM-dictator was not-long-ago a leading libertarian journalist. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-42059091914303864152021-01-15T18:20:33.868+00:002021-01-15T18:20:33.868+00:00Dr. Charlton has a better perspective and insight ...Dr. Charlton has a better perspective and insight into his own people's spiritual condition than we do from afar (assuming the last two posters are Americans). What is true for America is not true for other countries; some are better off spiritually than we are, some worse. England and Scotland (again, looking from afar) have struck me as being worse off in this respect than the US or some other European countries. It seems far more of the population have abandoned hope and accept the program than is the case here. But of the course the American condition varies wildly by region, too. GFCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53326553273541111132021-01-15T12:55:01.086+00:002021-01-15T12:55:01.086+00:00I agree with Mr. Andrew - it's spiritually dan...I agree with Mr. Andrew - it's spiritually dangerous to form impressions of the mass human soul from the mass media. It's all lies. <br /><br />The people I rub shoulders with every day know perfectly well that something is very wrong with the modern world. Many, many people talk about Western decline now, even the young. It's widely sensed that we are starving to death somehow. It's just that nobody knows what to do about it. Epimetheusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-77357377385637219042021-01-14T15:03:38.970+00:002021-01-14T15:03:38.970+00:00The US election was hopeful. Despite endless quant...The US election was hopeful. Despite endless quantities of racism (due, of course, to hatred of his orange skin) and lies from the media, more Americans than ever before supported a President who openly invokes Jesus and fights foeticide.<br /><br />Therefore the illusion of the mass majority being <i>completely</i> on the side of evil is just that, an illusion invoked to induce despair. Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815695560953002699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53184086953832420862021-01-14T11:37:33.721+00:002021-01-14T11:37:33.721+00:00@William - "Maybe everything comes down to an...@William - "Maybe everything comes down to an individual level."<br /><br />Yes, that remains true. There is inspiration and sustenance for those who ask. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12272113666623548162021-01-14T11:12:28.793+00:002021-01-14T11:12:28.793+00:00It seems to me that Arthur or, by extension, Jesus...It seems to me that Arthur or, by extension, Jesus or even God can only come to save us if we are crying out to be saved. Ask and you shall receive. But if we are complicit in our own destruction as now there is not much they can do. Maybe everything comes down to an individual level.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.com