The President of Israel is on the verge of losing his job for inappropriate relations with a minor.
Dakota Fanning performs a rape scene and all of Hollywood supports it.
What can this mean?
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Oligarchic and Democratic Persons
The oligarch gives in to the passion of money-making in an unrestrained way. He also ends up living a fairly comfortable life. Now, the children of the oligarch, not at first out of malice and perhaps not fully conscious of what they are doing, look at their father and they say, “you have followed the passion for money-making in an unrestrained way. Why can we follow our other passions in an unrestrained way?” And so, the seed of democracy is planted in the souls of the children of the oligarch. These children start to explore and experience the pleasures of alcohol, the desire for procreation, to the point of becoming lotus eaters. They see that the best society would be a society that provides for equality, or that gives equal access to all the passions. The best society is one that is multi-colored. In this kind of society, or in a democracy, all the passions are given free reign. No one passion is regarded as different or better than any other passion.
Some of the children of the oligarch, though democrats when they are young, themselves become oligarchs when they are older. They want to buy honor and respect. Thus begins the war or competition between democracy and oligarchy. But this war over time favors the democrats. They have a much larger natural constituency, whereas the oligarchs greatest appeal is to the money makers. So, over time, the democratic passion takes hold of a society.
Now, among the passions, there is also the lust for cruelty and violence. And in a democratic society, that passion has equal access to the society along with all the other passions. Thus enters the demagogue. The demagogue or sophist knows how to appeal to the passions of men so as to gain power for himself. And so, in becoming elected, he can promise all sorts of things to the democrats which will appeal to their passions. In fact, one of the ways he gets elected is by promising the democrats that he will put an end to the oligarchs.
The ultimate demagogue is also a father killer. He will convince the democratic and oligarchic children that they have to kill their honor-loving father in order to be free from the rules or limits that he lives and that if they applied to their lives would make them suffer because it would require them to restrain their passions, whichever passion it is to which they currently let rule in their soul.
Once the demagogue comes to power, he starts killing off the group or groups that brought him to power. Do not forget, it is the desire for power that dominates in his soul. Eventually, he kills off the democrats, and the tyrant rules in a society. The poets, philosophers, musicians and other flatterers start to flatter the tyrant, because they depend on him now for their existence. One might say that democracy can also be tyrannical in this sense, poets and academics often end up flattering those who provide for their existence and subsistence.
Some of the children of the oligarch, though democrats when they are young, themselves become oligarchs when they are older. They want to buy honor and respect. Thus begins the war or competition between democracy and oligarchy. But this war over time favors the democrats. They have a much larger natural constituency, whereas the oligarchs greatest appeal is to the money makers. So, over time, the democratic passion takes hold of a society.
Now, among the passions, there is also the lust for cruelty and violence. And in a democratic society, that passion has equal access to the society along with all the other passions. Thus enters the demagogue. The demagogue or sophist knows how to appeal to the passions of men so as to gain power for himself. And so, in becoming elected, he can promise all sorts of things to the democrats which will appeal to their passions. In fact, one of the ways he gets elected is by promising the democrats that he will put an end to the oligarchs.
The ultimate demagogue is also a father killer. He will convince the democratic and oligarchic children that they have to kill their honor-loving father in order to be free from the rules or limits that he lives and that if they applied to their lives would make them suffer because it would require them to restrain their passions, whichever passion it is to which they currently let rule in their soul.
Once the demagogue comes to power, he starts killing off the group or groups that brought him to power. Do not forget, it is the desire for power that dominates in his soul. Eventually, he kills off the democrats, and the tyrant rules in a society. The poets, philosophers, musicians and other flatterers start to flatter the tyrant, because they depend on him now for their existence. One might say that democracy can also be tyrannical in this sense, poets and academics often end up flattering those who provide for their existence and subsistence.
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Passions and Democracy
Democrats beware: the passions always present themselves as liberators, but when they rule in the soul, they rule with despotic tyranny.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Bombs, Birth Control, or Peace?
A dramatic question for our time: will we become a country that is known for exporting markets, dropping bombs, guzzling oil, handing out birth control and condoms, spreading pornography or will we be known as a country that spreads friendship, peace, and true freedom around the world?
Who is the model of an American in the Middle East? Is it a soldier, an oil baron, a CIA agent, a porn star or a businessman? Could it ever be a new St. Francis, someone who goes to the Middle East to befriend them, perhaps learm from them, and maybe each will gain from the other a deeper insight into knowing and living the truth? St. Francis went to befriend the Sultan, with the hope of winning the Sultan over to his side. This, I propose, should be the model of engaging the people of the Middle East.
Who is the model of an American in the Middle East? Is it a soldier, an oil baron, a CIA agent, a porn star or a businessman? Could it ever be a new St. Francis, someone who goes to the Middle East to befriend them, perhaps learm from them, and maybe each will gain from the other a deeper insight into knowing and living the truth? St. Francis went to befriend the Sultan, with the hope of winning the Sultan over to his side. This, I propose, should be the model of engaging the people of the Middle East.
Monday, January 8, 2007
Saturday, January 6, 2007
A Polish Archbishop
Let's review the current dilemma that Poland faces, in order to compare it to our own. If one were to read the article from the New York Times today, it seems that a young philosophy student in 1967 was recruited by the secret police to spy on Polish Catholics at a Catholic University.
Here is the link:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/world/europe/06poland.html?em&ex=1168232400&en=f62f8fd3ced788da&ei=5087%0A
Sunday, January 7th, this Archbishop resigned. He had compromised with an anti-catholic regime, and that made him unfit to become a ruler of the Church. There were clear guide-lines during the Soviet Era to protect from this kind of compromise. For example, no person was supposed to go alone into a room with someone from the communist secret service. If someone were alone in a room with the secret service, he should have written to his Ecclesiastical superiors about it immediately.
A principal characteristic of a failed counter revolutionary is the counter revolutionary that attempts to compromise with the revolution in the hopes of saving some of what the revolution is setting out to destroy.
Let's keep that in mind as we deal with our own revolutionary culture in the USA. We have the war-party revolutionaries trying to spread democratic revolution throughout the Middle East. We have the Family Revolutionaries who are using Gay Marriage as one step in the direction of eliminating the family as an institution. We have the Revolutionaries of sexual liberation who are hoping to return our culture to a pre-Greek barbarian culture. Beware those who seek compromise with these revolutions. As we lament the loss of this Archbishop, let's be ware of the ways in which we can compromise with ideologies, harming ourselves and the Church.
Here is the link:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/world/europe/06poland.html?em&ex=1168232400&en=f62f8fd3ced788da&ei=5087%0A
Sunday, January 7th, this Archbishop resigned. He had compromised with an anti-catholic regime, and that made him unfit to become a ruler of the Church. There were clear guide-lines during the Soviet Era to protect from this kind of compromise. For example, no person was supposed to go alone into a room with someone from the communist secret service. If someone were alone in a room with the secret service, he should have written to his Ecclesiastical superiors about it immediately.
A principal characteristic of a failed counter revolutionary is the counter revolutionary that attempts to compromise with the revolution in the hopes of saving some of what the revolution is setting out to destroy.
Let's keep that in mind as we deal with our own revolutionary culture in the USA. We have the war-party revolutionaries trying to spread democratic revolution throughout the Middle East. We have the Family Revolutionaries who are using Gay Marriage as one step in the direction of eliminating the family as an institution. We have the Revolutionaries of sexual liberation who are hoping to return our culture to a pre-Greek barbarian culture. Beware those who seek compromise with these revolutions. As we lament the loss of this Archbishop, let's be ware of the ways in which we can compromise with ideologies, harming ourselves and the Church.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Lust and Authority
Most revolutionaries will adopt two methods for inciting revolution, lust and a rebellion against authority. Lust comes in at least three forms, lust for power, lust for money, and lust for sexual pleasure. When a person follows some lust, they then see any authority, whether it is conscience, their family, or anything that represents the moral order, as an obstacle to gaining their illicit desire.
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