Courtesy MaryHolloway Love via Hannelore Morton - (This is more than notable for this time in our history) Regrettably, as our low-and-no information voters, subject to the extremophiles who dominate the culture, make alarmingly clear, democracy is no panacea. As James Lewis wryly puts it apropos the Progressivist power complex and its deluded victims, Great power goes together with great stupidity. Later historians, if there are any, will probably describe the years we are living through now as the Age of the Dummy -- indeed, an age that has spawned those aptly named books for Dummies, an era facile, ludicrous, puerile and moronic. I confess that I dont see how our current dilemma can be resolved without a sea change in the gradients and vectors of the culture at large or, as I greatly fear, a high-magnitude catastrophe that may possibly educate us with respect to our self-betrayal and compel us to rebuild. Barring the miracle of an epistemological recovery across the culture, which seems unlikely, we may have to depend on the most infallible of preceptors, historical agency, that from time to time may bring what the Romans called a felix culpa, variously translated as a happy fault or fortunate fall. Even this is moot, for a fortunate fall is no guarantee of social revival and cultural reintegration. The consequence of collective stupidity that causes political, social and economic collapse may be not reconstruction but archeology. Aristotle goes on to assert in Book 5 that the best way to preserve a democracy is education. For even the most beneficial and widely approved laws bring us no benefit if they are not inculcated through education and the habits of citizens. He could not have been more right. But for the time being, between the uneducated and the miseducated falls the shadow of our malaise.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:59:23 +0000
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