Dear Friends,
It seems to me, if the science of a society exceeds it’s philosophy, that society must destroy itself. Nuclear weapons in the hands of the Mongols, Mycenaeans or Iroquois, would have ended the world. Not because they in and of themselves were evil, or stupid, but because humanity had not evolved to the Enlightenment philosophy, backstopped by Christian morality, that has served us so well for so long. The Enlightenment that gave us such philosophical concepts as, discourse as the arbiter of truth rather than appeal to authority, constitutions to limit the propensity of government to become tyrannical, the scientific method, and Adam Smith’s field of economics. As Adam Smith himself said, the free market’s benevolent invisible hand operates only where there are moral sentiments.
The Enlightenment also had the seeds of it’s own destruction buried within, ready for the right time to sprout and become a toxic weed, poisonous to the very advances of the Enlightenment itself. Communism, and it’s twin socialism, Utopian idealist totalizing philosophies that require people agree to a lie and stick with it. As Solzhenitsyn implied in his Gulag Archipelago. These philosophies, ostensibly are based on parts of the Christian ethos, are in fact a perversion, that not only runs counter to Christianity but to Enlightenment ideals as well. They lead to Post Modernism, which as we see, is identical to communism, except the victim class the elite are supposedly defending, are not the working class, they are now the oppressed class. A distinction that allows infinite sources of power.
These seeds of the Enlightenment’s destruction were and have only been held in check by Christian morality. As the atheist socialists, communists and post modernists chipped away at the fabric of Christianity, and the family, through their monopoly control of the media, education and culture. Which gave them the ability to put their anti Enlightenment, anti Christian and indeed anti human philosophy into effect. It was the Christian, do unto others ethos, that made the world turn away from slavery for the first time in human history. It is the Marxist post modernist ethos that has removed that check and so slavery is coming back. Slavery, while profitable for the owner, is corrosive to human heartedness. A society without human heartedness cannot discern good from evil. Give such people godlike powers…
No one can argue the advances we had made in science are the direct result of the scientific method. Without that advance of the Enlightenment we wouldn’t have the wireless let alone smart phones. Had Tesla been born in Mycenaean times, he could have been made a slave, and so would have had zero interest in improving the lot of his captors. One of the greatest minds to live, Archimedes, was killed by a Roman soldier for being lost in thought when called. His inventions have all disappeared from our knowledge but for what they were. Only under a system of thought that the market system inculcates, along with the ethos of a devout Christian, could we have reached the level of scientific advancement we have. So is it hard to understand that if we give them up… we are doomed?
Probably the whole human race will not die. We are a resourceful lot. A collapse that would come of our abandoning both the advances of the Enlightenment, and Christian morality, would be disaster for most of us though. Post Modernism posits that we can cut the branch holding us up and gravity will bend to our will. Just as socialist economics states, unequivocally, that a house and it’s foundation can be supported by it’s roof. (If the roof is strong enough). Belief in absurdity requires faith in liars. Liars who demand we accept appeal to authority, unlimited government by the administrative state and to believe the scientific method, math and history are all racist. What do you reckon… can our advanced industrial scientific civilization thrive after a return to Iron Age thinking, or not?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
