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I love this quote from Cardinal Robert Sarah......
Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing. Modern civilization does not know how to be quiet. It holds forth in an unending monologue. Postmodern society rejects the past and looks at the present as a cheap consumer object; it pictures the future in terms of an almost obsessive progress.
Its dream, which has become a sad reality, will have been to lock silence away in a damp, dark dungeon. Thus there is a dictatorship of speech, a dictatorship of verbal emphasis. In this theater of shadows, nothing is left but a purulent wound of mechanical words, without perspective, without truth, and without foundation. Quite often “truth” is nothing more than the pure and misleading creation of the media, corroborated by fabricated images and testimonies. When that happens, the word of God fades away, inaccessible and inaudible.
Postmodernity is an ongoing offense and aggression against the divine silence. From morning to evening, from evening to morning, silence no longer has any place at all; the noise tries to prevent God himself from speaking. In this hell of noise, man disintegrates and is lost; he is broken up into countless worries, fantasies, and fears. In order to get out of these depressing tunnels, he desperately awaits noise so that it will bring him a few consolations.
Noise is a deceptive, addictive, and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence. This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.
Even in the schools, silence has disappeared. And yet how can anyone study in the midst of noise? How can you read in noise? How can you train your intellect in noise? How can you structure your thought and the contours of your interior being in noise?
How can you be open to the mystery of God, to spiritual values, and to our human greatness in continual turmoil? Contemplative silence is a fragile little flame in the middle of a raging ocean.
The fire of silence is weak because it is bothersome to a busy world.”
—Cardinal Robert Sarah
i was a lifelong Democrat—voted Obama, Obama, Clinton, Biden. i spent most of my life on the left, fully convinced that the right was evil, that republicans were selfish and racist, and that leaving the party was basically selling your soul
so it’s funny when libs now tell me “you don’t understand the left.” like bro, i didn’t just understand it—i lived it. i defended it. i believed in it. i was all in
i held on for a long time bc i was so brainwashed into thinking the right was this monstrous force that wanted to burn the world down. but eventually, reality cracked through the narrative. and once i really saw it, i couldn’t unsee it
what really stands out to me now is how ashamed the left made me feel about being American—kind of in the same way they teach white people to feel guilty for things they had no part in. it’s a worldview built on guilt, on self-loathing, on the idea that success, pride, and strength are all somehow bad
but the irony is, i’ve never felt more patriotic in my life. never felt more connected to the actual values this country was built on—freedom, self-reliance, resilience
i didn’t leave the left because i “changed”—i left because they did
so when people tell me i don’t understand the left, i have to laugh—bc i probably understand it better than they do. i know exactly what i walked away from