Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 3, 2024 16:44:10 GMT -8
Can this be distilled to an inferiority/superiority complex?
It is a complex of some type. In 9 out of 10 cases I would say it is a spiritual complex. It is a lack of God.
To put this in context, consider for a moment allowing pop culture, social media, woke politics, and the various degraded forms of entertainment to form your outlook. You may gain momentary advantage (and/or distraction) by submitting yourself to this mill. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand the computer truism of "garbage-in/garbage-out."
Materialism (atheism) is the reigning paradigm. And it's not so much that this is some kind of brave facing of one's mortality, as is the general conceit of that type. It's that we self-diminish ourselves by not understanding the full context or spectrum of our existence.
Rather than expanding our minds, hearts, and spirits with serious contemplation of God, we become the Amazing Shrinking Man. We neither come to grips with our place in the universe nor is the materialist gruel that we substitute very nourishing.
Instead of becoming noble creatures with a sense of context and purpose, we become small, angry, and, well, rather dumb. I've never met an atheist who ever struck me as being either wise or well grounded.
And every facet of Progressivism is atheistic. Even its feints to "spirituality" are merely counterfeit forms, at best a type of paganism. Even those not overtly on the Left can't help but be caught up in our materialist consumer culture where the watchword is, "I consume, therefore I am." Churches, for instance, are highly infected with this virus and are not what I mean by finding "God."
We don't have to explain why people go bonkers consuming the foul gruel of popular culture. This is generally where we will end up unless we make an effort to be more than just an animal and plug in to the source, however one conceives that or can achieve that.
