I grow more and more ashamed of my alma mater, Boston University, the more that the too-well-known airhead (otherwise known as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC) lets loose with her Socialist mantras that bedevils her “degree” in economics and international relationship.
Add to that the racist BU professor Ibram X. Kendi, whose best philosophical line (“If you’re not an anti-racist, you’re a racist” – either you’re with me or you’re subhuman as there can be no disagreement with my pontifications, peons).
However, Boston University also had Angelo Codevilla – a conservative Professor with great gravitas, who wrote “The Ruling Class,” which has had a lasting impact on the Right as it purposely encapsulated a view that it was Left vs Right but a Ruling Class (the Elites) vs the Country Class (the Middle Class). But here, an observation from his “The Character of Nations (How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility” (emphasis mine):
Western regimes have gone out of their way to deny their peoples’ and polities’ kinship with Christianity—the drafters of the European Union’s constitution rejected references to it vehemently and repeatedly. In America, arguing that America is a Christian country endangers careers. Spiritual emptiness, the proposition that human life is qualitatively indistinguishable from animal life and hence meaningless, holds monopoly status in the schools. More important, acceptance of it is de rigueur for interacting with those who count. Moreover, Western regimes have tried to engender ersatz sentiments of reverence for “the planet,” and for their own status as priests of the culture of liberating meaninglessness. Though this culture is entrenched in regimes, and though it has diminished or suppressed the West’s Christianity, it has not engendered enthusiasm, even among its priests.
“Spiritual emptiness” – doesn’t it really explain the problem with the West and especially with America? John Adams importantly said:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
At the time, America was seen as a Christian nation and while religious pluralism existed (including the non-religious) and with it, Christian morals and values. However, look at what is important today. It isn’t a sense of piety, a reverence for God, the idea that there was a Superior Being to which we would eventually answer to, a sense of right and wrong, and a moral code that the majority understood (may not have abided by it but knew it was there).
Codevilla correctly says, in different words, that when a Society stops believing in God, it will find something else to believe in instead. We see that in full bloom, now, where everything in the public realm is now, effectively, a malleable form of Paganism with a Gaia-centering where sin has devolved to one item: CO2 emissions. All of our lives MUST be devalued so that Gaia (a mud ball) would rise. In effect, many of its devotees believe that humanity is NOT part of Nature but a scourge instead.
But there is no form of a moral code between people – just the Earth and we being “her serfs” with a theology that is defined by whims and paid for with indulgences and misery. Christianity was all about lifting up – environmentalism is always about physical debasement without the feeding of an integral part of being human – our souls.
And without that, can there be ANY wonder why life seems to be getting worse by the day?
(H/T: Powerline)
