A DARK FAITH

E M Oblomov writing about this thing called the 'intelligentsia', a Russian word, speaks about his childhood in Russia and therein makes an observation I found rather telling [emphasis mine]:

In my parents’ circle, these were mostly engineers and scientists, with a smattering of musicians and doctors. None had any sort of formal connection to academic social science or the humanities, since in the U.S.S.R. these fields were political minefields, difficult for decent people to negotiate.

Telling in that this has most definitely become the norm in Western Universities today.

I would define 'decent' folk as those who believe in traditional marriage and families made up of the traditional male, female roles with children, those who view mendacity and licentiousness as wrong, who do not believe that illegal drugs are a good thing, who wish to live in peace and leave others to do the same, who believe that the governments role is to curb the baser nature of humanity in order to maintain that peace, and not to indulge in wealth creation because bureaucracy's are demonstrably weak at such things, who also believe that crime should not pay and that criminals should be punished rather than re-educated, that schools should be places of learning particularly the 3R's rather than centres of ideological propaganda etc etc....in other words these 'decent' folk are what the 'progressive elites' call the 'deplorables'.

But what does this shift indicate in describing the modern Western experience?
Perhaps we have become so socialistic in our thinking that we have lost sight of what made us successful in the first place.
I believe that is indeed the case and unfortunately even though Trump has appeared on the horizon and is trying, in part to 'undo' much of the apparatus built up to further the aims of these socialistic ally inspired ideals, I fear it is too little, too late and may well hasten the slide into chaos.
These entrenched powers are not going to give up their power easily, witness the shrieking, the baseline fascistic behaviour taking place in the name of 'anti-fascism', and the outpourings of hate in the name of anti-hate.

Unfortunately someone like Trump will not suffer such fools gladly and his baser nature could erupt into the type of  authoritarian government that many fear.  Perhaps it has even reached the stage where the civil war the real demagogues like Soros are hoping for might begin to manifest, because it is men like him who always make a financial killing from humans killing each other and chaos. And of course all of this will be laid at the feet of the 'conservatives' just like terrorism is laid at the feet of the West who 'caused' these 'poor people' to kill, rape, and rampage through the streets of the Western nations.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a prophet of his time and in seeing so clearly the state of the intelligentsia in Russia he foreshadowed the same lamentable collapse of the Western elites:

The most devastating critique of the Russian intelligentsia was mounted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a 1974 essay called Educationdom (Obrazovanshchina). Solzhenitsyn traced the sources of the Bolshevik revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath to the vices of the old intelligentsia, which included “a sectarian, artificial distancing from the national life,” unsuitability for practical work, an obsession with egalitarian social justice that “paralyzes the love of and interest in truth,” and a “trance-like, inadequate sense of reality.” There were other, darker vices, too: “fanaticism, deaf to the voice of everyday life”; a hypnotic faith in its own ideology and intolerance for any other; and the adoption of “hatred as a passionate ethical impulse.” Worse still for Solzhenitsyn was the intelligentsia’s fervent rejection of Christianity, replaced by faith in scientific progress and a mankind-worshiping idolatry. This atheism was all-embracing and uncritical in its belief that science is competent to dispose of all religious questions, finally and comprehensively. In Solzhenitsyn’s view, the intelligentsia had yielded to the temptation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor—may the truth rot, if people are the happier for it.

I do not believe there could be a clearer denunciation of the dark 'faith' espoused by the 'intellectual/political/media elite in the West than this.

Once more I end with a prayer that wise heads will prevail in dealing with these uprisings and that we might be afforded a few more years to live in relative peace and to spread the gospel of Christ.