“Europe for five centuries & more has been deceiving itself, trying to establish a reign of humanism, liberalism, and supposedly Christian values on the basis of an increasingly sceptical attitude towards Christian truth. Absurdism is the end of that road; it is the logical conclusion of the humanist attempt to soften and compromise Christian truth so as to accommodate new, modern, that is to say, worldly, values. Absurdism is the last proof that Christian truth is absolute and uncompromising, or else it is the same as no truth at all; and if there is no truth, if Christian truth is not to be understood literally and absolutely, if God is dead, if there is no immortality — then this world is all there is, and this world is absurd, this world is Hell”…
— Fr Seraphim Rose
“The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare” …
– Martin Esslin
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”…
— Voltaire
In a Post-Christian Western Civilisation, the inevitable outcome is a Post-Truth Society and a Post-Truth Education.
A Fictional Society of rolling waves of competing narratives and fiat news.
Where the Telos is no longer the Pursuit of Truth and Wisdom that reflects an Eternal Reality, but instead a temporal Nietzschean Will to Power.
“When there is no such thing as truth, you can’t define reality, and when you can’t define reality, the only thing that matters is power”…
— Maajid Nawaz
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A World where societal change unfolds through the Marxist Leninist Stalinist process of transformation known as Dialectical Materialism and Machiavellian manipulation.
A Modern and Post-Modern World where apparently the “end justifies the means”.
“Totalitarianism and secularism are inseparable … the totalitarian danger can present itself today in a new form, more dangerous because it does not call itself such” …
— Augusto del Noce
A New Totalitarianism where Reality ultimately is imposed by force — a Managed Truth — whether via censorship, propaganda, surveillance, reshaping education, the establishment of a liberal orthodoxy, control of the semiotic industrial complex, the restriction of freedom of speech & freedom of reach, new laws and regulations etc…
“Freedom of speech without freedom of reach is not freedom of speech”…
— Robert Kennedy
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Marxism, nihilism, materialism, a new world order, and a city of man.
“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilisation) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature”…
— Cornell West
Plato’s The Republic
In Plato’s The Republic the elite in Society — the Platonic Guardians — the Philosopher Kings — had a fiduciary duty to their citizens in creating a Good Society.
The guardians governed with wisdom and justice, guided by their pursuit of the highest-order truths.
Society’s harmony and order depended on the Guardians’ knowledge and virtue.
They were ideas that could also be traced back to Christianity and the Kingdom of God where his will is fully realised.
In such a Society, truth, justice, and love prevail, guided by divine wisdom.
The Guardians were also expected to be moral exemplars, living lives of virtue and self-discipline.
“The spirit of religion is shown by the way both external observance and internal devotion flourish side by side; because when a man is genuinely full of the Spirit he cannot help showing it in his outward behavior.”…
– Antonio Rosmini
Their moral integrity was essential to their legitimacy as rulers and their understanding of the Good enabled them to lead in a way that was in the best interest of all citizens .
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law”…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A moral virtue to govern justly, free from personal desires or interests, focusing on the common good.
“To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law”…
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Humble, just, servant, altrocentric leadership guiding others by a north star of divine eternal truth .
“Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means”…
– Aristotle
Plato’s form of the good as first-order rational principles is analogous to Christianity’s Logos which brings order and intelligibility to the Universe.
“Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question”…
– Charles Sanders Peirce
The pursuit of Truth — Divine Truth — and practical application of Wisdom.
“Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened” …
– Aleksandr Solzenhitsyn
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