Motus Mentis

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1. Whitewall says

   “The Western world is in turmoil largely because of the widening gap between what the people see as true and the “truth” that their governing classes impose on them for the purported greater moral good. The result is a schizophrenia like that seen before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, in which no one believed that the reality they lived had anything to do with the reality delivered by the media and the state. Trumpism and popular movements in Europe are simply symptoms of another problem–that what the ruling elite said was true was often a lie.” Victor Davis Hanson

   Posted June 7, 2018 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
2. Whitewall says

   Blast it! Forgot the link to above:
   https://www.hoover.org/research/ten-paradoxes-our-age?

   Posted June 7, 2018 at 4:53 pm | Permalink
3. Jason says

   As it happens, I’m writing this in the large lobby of my city’s library headquarters. I swear, there must be at least twenty adolescents being tutored now in the late afternoon after school, predominately whites and Asians who will be headed off to college in a few years. They, or at least their guardians, are brutally aware of how “transactional” the world now is. If you don’t measure up, then you’ll be spit out all to easily if you’re not lucky enough to be part of a flourishing community where transcendence – and not merely utility – is valued.

   And I think there’s the rub. The greatness of America traditionally lay in the fact that she balanced the hurly-burly world of capitalism with religion, family, community. But that symbiosis doesn’t really appear to exist anymore, except in certain pockets of the American scene. Hence the acedia that you see so much today.

   Posted June 7, 2018 at 5:12 pm | Permalink