Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Gravitas, genuine wit, magnanimity, intelligence, reverence for the rule of law, Christian faith that is confident without being performative. The king is like a voice from a lost world.
@KyleKulinski Haha how so?? Thatโs it? Anything deeper to say here? Looks like you didnโt learn much from your Catholic educational background at Iona, did you Kyleโฆ ? Your podcast says โsecularโ talk, but do folks know you went to Catholic School? I do.
Exactly right. Social progressivism on the left and market ideology on the right start with some reasonable points but "don't know where to stop" and became universal acids that have eaten away social bonds.
Guardiniโs The End of the Modern World saw the crisis early: technical power rising, interior depth thinning. It anticipates the whole of our current situation.
The real question is not whether modernity survives, but what kind of human being will. The fundamental question today is anthropological.
@DavidAFrench Are you equating postliberalism with Tradlife? Iโm sure @johnmilbank3 and @AdrianPabst1 would disagree with this nonsense. Post liberal is not about โgoing backโ, itโs about moving forward. Certainly a return to metaphysics is part of this, but not in the way you frame it.
A great insight from @jayvanbavel: "this technological transformation has created an entirely new moral ecosystem--driven by the attention economy--that is often mismatched with our evolved adaptations for social living."
It's quite sad to read old Marxist like Gramsci or Lukacs and ponder their delusional idea that at some point the proletariat would reach "class consciousness" becoming the "subject of history." What a naive expectation, what a misunderstanding of basic human realities.
Salvation is seeking to know our origin and to return to it; damnation is pretending to be self-originated and to escape to an evermore postponed and receding future.
'Weโve become a civilization that can code, but canโt write a sentence worth remembering.'
Great way of expressing the downfall of our literary culture.