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Rousseauvian idealism recast the explanation of evil. Evil was removed from the human heart against which we contend with the help of religion and was attributed to the institutions of existing society, to civilization itself. In recent years we see many manifestations of this. For example, the New York Times’ 1619 Project which says America was created on the basis of the institution of black slavery. The institution of marriage, which limited marriage to vows between a man and a woman, discriminates against same sex marriage. Pedophiles are deprived of sexual love between adults and arbitrarily defined children. Normalizing perversity is seen as liberation from discriminatory institutions. Civilization’s emphasis on moral character as a constraint on evil was replaced with the emphasis that evil resided in the institutions of civilization. Wokeness is now a pursued goal of profit-driven corporations such as Disney and Budweiser.
Paul Craig Roberts
"Can you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead?
They’re gonna wash this planet clean like the Bible said
Now you can hold on steady, try to be ready
But everybody’s gonna get wet
Don’t think it won’t happen just because it hasn’t happened yet."
Jackson Browne, The Road and the Sky, 1974
Are we seeing all of them? No. And we may never see the worst of them.
Are we seeing anything that shows us the workings of a corrupt oligarchy?
Yes. Thousands of pages worth. Corrupt agencies, corrupt individuals and corrupt government cartels.
That is the mystery. Why are such incriminating documents being revealed to the lowly and despised voter class? Partly because Rep. Massie forced the issue with a law passed by Congress. Partly because Pam Bondi may be in fear of going to prison if she doesn't comply. And partly because the sins of elite criminals have found them out. They were sure they had impunity, and this pride has set them up for a fall. They were not above the law, after all.
Psalm 73:18-19
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo.
– The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
