Blind on Blind

We are in the thrall of ideologues who see culture as a by-product of economic realities and are thus consciously or unconsciously managing to subvert our way of life through the distribution of income and the imposition of a 'nanny state'. The attack on our civilisations cultural norms has stepped up a few gears. Watch the TV or read the news media and make note of the unabashed attack on the Judeo-Christian foundations of our culture.

IT WAS MARX WHO ARGUED that the foundation of social order and the motor of social change resides in economic structures, and that culture is merely the by-product--the assemblage of institutions and ideologies--that rises from the economic foundations and keeps them in place. Hence it was to Marx that we owed that first and disastrous attempt to organize society on economic principles alone, and to assume that culture will look after itself. In fact it is culture that creates economics, and not the other way round, and if any proof of this is needed we need only look at the result of the Marxist experiment. Better still, we might look at the successful economies in the modern world--the American for instance--and note the extent to which they have depended on a respect for law, on honest accounting, and on individual responsibility, the ethic of family life, and the forms of social interaction. (Scruton, American Spectator Sept 2011)

The great tradgedy about it all is that after the fact and amidst the forthcoming rubble, those few surviving ideologues will stand aghast at the destruction their ideologies have wrought, and just like the current American Secretary of State, will no doubt echo her pathetic words:  "Today, many Americans are asking – indeed, I asked myself – how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction"?
Oh what blindness, what a pitiful misunderstanding of the forces at work in the word today.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. (Ephesians 4:18)