Question of the Day: What is Wrong with the World Today?
Polycarp has just posted his Friday Question and it’s a good one, so do hop over and put in your two-penneth if you get a mo:
You can give religious reasons or secular reasons, etc… but, what do you think, if anything, is wrong with people in the world today? The United States? You own country? Are people more miserable, anxious, and heartless, or is it just me? Are we losing a Western Humanist expression, in which we value humanity? What about individualism? Is anyone self-sufficient?
Tags: Christian Life
June 19th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Nihilism
June 19th, 2010 at 8:35 am
@Goy, Fr. Robert makes a salient point on Polycarp’s blog:
Western Humanist values come from the Judeo-Christian worldview, which has been lost in the last 40 years or so especially. Even Greco-Roman society had the Stoics and Neoplatonism. Today, we in the west have nihilism…nothing! Modernism, to postmodernism, with deconstruction. No wonder we have lost our humanist values. Even today’s many so-called a-theists lack humanist thought, rejecting the history of the Holocaust, etc. Yes, we have seen just the tip of what the scripture calls the “Apocalyptic”. It is first moral loss, or as the scripture says…”apostacy”! As Isaiah says: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness..” (Isa. 5:20)
June 19th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
@Webmaster,
Have watched this phenomenon since the nineteen eighties imagine the derision and confusion in arguing that Thatcher was not a conservative and the blank faces when explaining this phenomenon, labels were needed thus I used discordianism, neoliberalism and nihilism when in conversation or posting.
Only now is some attention being given to this phenomenon in the mainstream and to tell the truth I no longer feel so isolated in my thinking I only wish there had been some academic tools in my tool box to better voice the dangers of this phenomenon.
There is no clear start point for this phenomenon its roots could be in christianity or from the enlightenment the start point has yet to be determined.