In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, sociologist Max Weber states that when modern Capitalism took form in Protestant countries such as Switzerland and Germany about two hundred years ago, the ideal was to earn money and increase wealth – not to squander one’s income away on status, luxury and consumerism. The duty of the believer was to use …
Read More »Strong tendencies of social collapse in the United States: Poverty, lack of faith in government
The Western world is collapsing so rapidly that I am afraid that I am going to outlive it. Psychological and emotional collapse is not the only form of collapse underway in the US and Western world generally. There is also economic and social collapse, especially in the United States. Today America’s once great manufacturing and industrial cities, such as …
Read More »The Goal of Science is to understand God
The atheist narrative has in the past century engulfed the West with its denial of the metaphysical realm. History has been rewritten to fit this Marxist and socialist ideology. The idea that religion and scientific rationalism are opposing world views is one of the atheist distortions of reality that have been pushed on the public. One seeks to hide …
Read More »How politicized Science destroys Science
Governments are now faltering under the weight of mass unemployment, debt, bankruptcies and civil unrest. At the same time, the inequality gap is rocketing with one billion set to plunge into utter poverty. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has described a high-damage scenario, writing that 80 % of the Covid economic crisis will persist for more than a decade and stall …
Read More »Alexis de Tocqueville and the Totalitarian Abuse of Power in Democracies
Many famous authors have discussed the dangers of misuse of power in democracy, among them the nineteenth-century philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. In Democracy in America, he pointed out how easy it is for a democracy to turn totalitarian if it becomes the tyranny of the mob. It would be an ochlocracy, as the ancient Greeks called it, an extreme …
Read More »How the neo-Marxist New Left destabilized the West, tearing down the values that created stability
The West changed completely in the 1960s. The neo-Marxist student revolution implemented a full front attack on all traditional values and slowly broke down the very fabric of Western unity and stability. This may not have been the intent of the naïve youngsters who were thrilled at the prospect of free sex and drugs. They probably somehow believed in the …
Read More »The Marxist mistake of denying the spiritual realm renders the West in spiritual poverty
Friederich Nietzsche is one of the founding fathers of the atheist revolt against the knowledge of God, famously proclaiming that “God is dead”. The result of the atheist nihilists’ work has been that the broad part of Westerners have been cut off from the spiritual source of inner peace. Nietzche probably would not have worded it that way, but …
Read More »Marxist icon Herbert Marcuse and the Authoritarian Strategy to silence opposition
Repression of free speech, tolerance and respect for plurality has become the trademark of the New Left’ desire to silence the Majority. Thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, the father of the student revolution in the 1960’s, speaks openly in A critique of pure tolerance about the need to oppress the views of the conservatives and others who are critical of their ideology, …
Read More »Existential inner peace in the midst of turmoil
The 20th century introduced Marxist, atheist emptiness to the masses in the West. It may be argued that with it came the notion of life as a meaningless burden. With no heaven ahead and no hell to fear, the conscience was deemed an unnecessary relic from the past. Only the empirically observable was to be considered real, eternity regarded …
Read More »Western Secular Values are not Neutral but come from Christian Philosophy
The term “Western values” is often used when describing historical ideals and cultural traditions that are perceived to be vital in defining the European civilization. If you pay attention to the way the term is currently used, it is easy to assume that modern Western values were invented in the Enlightenment period – the 1600s – with its emphasis …
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