HISTORY & REASON

As one who has been passionate about education for many years, and in that passion have been frustrated, blocked and blessed in equal proportion, I am paradoxically depressed and elated all at once.

Depressed when I read and observe how effectively neo-Marxist thinking has impacted Western society and knowing history as I do, I realise what is in store for the majority.

Elated when I reflect on the fact that there appears to be something of an awakening taking place in the West:

So, there is hope that we can end the Millennial/Generation Z’s tryst with far left politics, with more job opportunities and educations programs from VOC that shows the catastrophe that occurs when these government run out of money, which always happens. If they thought debt and no job was bad, how about no electricity, no food, no medicine, no emergency services—a complete societal collapse from this dalliance with the left wing. I wonder if there’s a country where all of this is happening right now after promising people free stuff. Oh wait; that would be Venezuela, where things are so bad due to their experiment with 21st Century Socialism that a scraped knee could mean death thanks for shortages of about pretty much everything.

However, and herein lies the rub, I am not sure if this realisation of consequences is too little too late nor whether or not the spiritual component is strong enough (interestingly the Christian world is very 'advanced' in its ignorance of history, politics and reality in general...perhaps because many of the self-appointed 'leaders' are often ignorant, sclerotic, real-world agoraphobes  or are so compromised in their doctrinal beliefs that they may well be referred to as wolves amongst the sheep).

And fundamentally I believe that unless the core of this belated 'revival' is spiritual, it is doomed to fail. Why? Simply because history teaches us that people need more to life than mere prosperity..... they need a reason to live.