Punching the D3V1L in the Nose
Read a very good commentary on the situation we find ourselves in today generally, from a Catholic Archbishop's point of view in specific.
Here are some excerpts (I tried to keep it not TLDR):
"The 2016 election is one of those rare moments when the repellent nature of both presidential candidates allows the rest of us to see our nation’s pastoral terrain as it really is. And the view is unpleasant. America’s cultural and political elites talk a lot about equality, opportunity and justice. But they behave like a privileged class, with an authority based on their connections and skills. And supported by sympathetic media, they’re remaking the country into something very different from anything most of us remember or the Founders imagined."
".....Or we could use 1962 as another reasonable start date. That’s when President Kennedy told a group of policy advisers, “The fact of the matter is that most of the problems, or at least many of them that we now face, are technical problems ... administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments which do not lend themselves to the great sort of ‘passionate movements’ which have stirred this country so often in the past. Now, they deal with questions which are beyond the comprehension of most men.” [emphasis added]
"Let me put our situation this way: The two unavoidable facts of life are mortality and inequality. We’re going to die. And — here I’m committing a primal American heresy — we’re not created “equal” in the secular meaning of that word. We’re obviously not equal in dozens of ways: health, intellect, athletic ability, opportunity, education, income, social status, economic resources, wisdom, social skills, character, holiness, beauty or anything else. And we never will be. Wise social policy can ease our material inequalities and improve the lives of the poor. But as Tocqueville warned, the more we try to enforce a radical, unnatural, egalitarian equality, the more “totalitarian” democracy becomes."
"For all of its greatness, democratic culture proceeds from the idea that we’re born as autonomous, self-creating individuals who need to be protected from, and made equal with, each other. It’s simply not true. And it leads to the peculiar progressive impulse to master and realign reality to conform to human desire, whereas the Christian masters and realigns his desires to conform to and improve reality."
The bishop is from Philadelphia, Archbishop Chaput. A very good man, pastor and author.
Anyhow, I found this commentary to be very good and thought it was worth posting.
Here are some excerpts (I tried to keep it not TLDR):
"The 2016 election is one of those rare moments when the repellent nature of both presidential candidates allows the rest of us to see our nation’s pastoral terrain as it really is. And the view is unpleasant. America’s cultural and political elites talk a lot about equality, opportunity and justice. But they behave like a privileged class, with an authority based on their connections and skills. And supported by sympathetic media, they’re remaking the country into something very different from anything most of us remember or the Founders imagined."
".....Or we could use 1962 as another reasonable start date. That’s when President Kennedy told a group of policy advisers, “The fact of the matter is that most of the problems, or at least many of them that we now face, are technical problems ... administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments which do not lend themselves to the great sort of ‘passionate movements’ which have stirred this country so often in the past. Now, they deal with questions which are beyond the comprehension of most men.” [emphasis added]
"Let me put our situation this way: The two unavoidable facts of life are mortality and inequality. We’re going to die. And — here I’m committing a primal American heresy — we’re not created “equal” in the secular meaning of that word. We’re obviously not equal in dozens of ways: health, intellect, athletic ability, opportunity, education, income, social status, economic resources, wisdom, social skills, character, holiness, beauty or anything else. And we never will be. Wise social policy can ease our material inequalities and improve the lives of the poor. But as Tocqueville warned, the more we try to enforce a radical, unnatural, egalitarian equality, the more “totalitarian” democracy becomes."
"For all of its greatness, democratic culture proceeds from the idea that we’re born as autonomous, self-creating individuals who need to be protected from, and made equal with, each other. It’s simply not true. And it leads to the peculiar progressive impulse to master and realign reality to conform to human desire, whereas the Christian masters and realigns his desires to conform to and improve reality."
The bishop is from Philadelphia, Archbishop Chaput. A very good man, pastor and author.
Anyhow, I found this commentary to be very good and thought it was worth posting.
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