An even bigger problem, perhaps, is when the self-defined "governing classes" are at once deluded, Archived Message
Posted by Thomas Newfield on March 14, 2019, 10:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Ignore it? The problem is they are pushing it for the disaster capitalism opportunity."
in cognitive dissonance, and suprememly confident as always. This may take many patterns, reactionary crimson and chic dissident... paisley, are two faves - but its the confident hubris that's consistent, and really destructive. The crimson side is quite predictable, for example: proud conservatism alongside committment to open markets that end in sweeping away all that's old and precious (and young too), ever ignoring the ubiquitous smashing of human and social potential. The boho side is more interesting and often more intelligent. The time to think alongside comfort and self-love can make for some real insight. Tolstoy springs to mind here. But still the dissonance and hubris with which one may argue with apparent passion against, say, the planned dismantling, fomenting of hatred in Ukraine, alongside no little bloodshed, risking ignition of a big war - - on the one hand, and support for the war-agent EU, "for all its faults", on the other!! For me these currents are united in a deep, sorrowful cynicism about human nature, all nature, and betray a lostness which, annoyingly (for them) unites the born-to-rules with the hoi polloi in all the tawdry modern cliches: hedonism, worship of man-as-god, material greed, faith in man-made chop logic, and all the rest of it. In this decay competence and so any right to govern is lost. Incidentally the Christian view of man "as a species" is that were are venal, fallen, possessed by Satan, largely. I think. But then there's always the possibility of repentence, should we fancy a crack at the Good Life and chipping away at our created fallen natures, and can find some faith in Mercy.
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