[Peace-discuss] America is engulfed in a crisis of meaning—and it's killing us | Opinion

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I am not much of a fan of Mr. Shapiro but I did see
a bit of wit attributed to him, a snappy
comeback to some weird deranged chick about the Boy Scouts.

Ben Shapiro may understand the so-called Judaeo-Christian tradition as 
he wants to imagine it
but the first thing that comes to mind to those seeking meaning in life is

/Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes ; vanitas vanitatum, et omnia 
vanitas./

It's kind of secret but it is a solution within itself.

Interesting choice of words there "suicide jumped..."
I am not sure what the similar catchy phrase would be for ODing
and maybe Ben didnt either.
Oh.  I got it.
"...lives wasted in drug overdoses rushed upwards by ..."

Drug overdosing is really pretty dull,
it's sort of like being sick, I'd think.
It aint much fun when ya think about it.

I was mystified by this business of atomization of individuals.
My grandmother had these perfume bottles on her dresser
that I never saw her use but I supposed that she atomized herself
some times in the past before I was a boy.

I had read something about atoms and was always a little
afraid of those atomizers, and my grandma indeed bade me
to touch them not.

...atomizing... classical liberals...
I dont much feature a Thomas Paine or John Locke spraying himself with 
eau de
/anything/ (although maybe Oscar Wilde or even Newton [Isaac, not John] 
might,
but I am not sure if they were really classical liberals...)
so I really dont know what Ben is going after.  I found some reference 
to it under
Bill Moyers but he used so many other words that I didnt understand
that I was like a grade school student looking up some enigmatic 
polysyllabic
sesquipedalianism and finding another inscrutable word as the definition.

I would guess that there is somewhat a loss of values in yer post-Modern 
America
(ok, ok, I used a c not the standard k)
but those values aren't exactly the express domain of the so-called 
JudaeoChristian
domain.  Those are pretty much standard values and it is a good thing
when the JudaeoChristians actually do embrace them.

Any one can figure those values out on their own if they
sit and think about it.  Does anyone have to tell you
what is good?  The Creator is revealed in his Creation.

The call for enlightenment is a very interesting one but I am suspicious
of Mr. Shapiro that what he is offering up is not exactly enlightenment,
or freedom, either.

It is hard to ignore that the USA is regressing and has been a has been 
in the
making for quite a little while.

One possible future is muddling despair.
In some ways this is happening already.

Another is physical violence and physical fragmentation
not just mild disagreement and rock throwing and funny hats.
Actually that future is rather likely.

Yet another is spiritual revival.
That is not impossible.

Finem loquendi pariter omnes audiamus.
Deum time, et mandata ejus observa : hoc est enim omnis homo,
et cuncta quæ fiunt adducet Deus in judicium pro omni errato,
sive bonum, sive malum illud sit.

ewj

Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss wrote:
> *From: *"Szoke, Ron" <r-szoke at illinois.edu <mailto:r-szoke at illinois.edu>>
> *Subject: **Ben Shapiro: America is engulfed in a crisis of 
> meaning—and it's killing us | Opinion*
> *Date: *December 4, 2018
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