Yeah, I think this is the right way to go about it. There's only a small subset of people looking for a solution, and you can be specific enough to serve them, instead of the whole world. General solutions mostly don't exist because people in general aren't *really* looking for true solutions.
Love when I find a writer that I look at and go "We're not so different, you and I." Keep the cool posts coming.
The harshest critic of modernity I've seen is René Guénon, and he dates the beginning of the degeneration to Descartes, which is the moment the West lost its spiritual core. He will gladly tell you that everything that happened beginning with him is literally a mistake, and that our world is nothing but an error (though it carries the seeds of the next world within it).
You sound like a committed materialist, well, there are actually good reasons to not be a materialist, and not all spirituality consists of slave morality. Think of the Bhagavad Gita, which says that in the name of the Good, sometimes you need to kill a lot of people and wreak havoc (though you are only a good guy if you try hard to avoid that outcome). Or hell, think of Muhammad.
And finally, materialism itself is a degenerate position, such that escaping from modernity and post-modernity to something better involves ditching materialism.
Gay take. The collapse of the west and the rise of materialist degeneracy started with Luther and the Protestant Reformation. This deleted the immune system of Christianity. Which of the subsequent cascading infections ultimately marked its death is a red herring. The solution is to undo the Reformation.
What does undoing the Reformation mean at this point? It's unlikely the Catholic Church can regain the authority they used to have. Guénon said something pretty insightful about the state of the church: they're a man with a treasure chest, but they don't have the key to the chest. Meaning they don't truly understand their own tradition, and are therefore incapable of producing a legitimate adaptation of the doctrine for the present context.
Yeah, I think this is the right way to go about it. There's only a small subset of people looking for a solution, and you can be specific enough to serve them, instead of the whole world. General solutions mostly don't exist because people in general aren't *really* looking for true solutions.
Love when I find a writer that I look at and go "We're not so different, you and I." Keep the cool posts coming.
The harshest critic of modernity I've seen is René Guénon, and he dates the beginning of the degeneration to Descartes, which is the moment the West lost its spiritual core. He will gladly tell you that everything that happened beginning with him is literally a mistake, and that our world is nothing but an error (though it carries the seeds of the next world within it).
You sound like a committed materialist, well, there are actually good reasons to not be a materialist, and not all spirituality consists of slave morality. Think of the Bhagavad Gita, which says that in the name of the Good, sometimes you need to kill a lot of people and wreak havoc (though you are only a good guy if you try hard to avoid that outcome). Or hell, think of Muhammad.
And finally, materialism itself is a degenerate position, such that escaping from modernity and post-modernity to something better involves ditching materialism.
Gay take. The collapse of the west and the rise of materialist degeneracy started with Luther and the Protestant Reformation. This deleted the immune system of Christianity. Which of the subsequent cascading infections ultimately marked its death is a red herring. The solution is to undo the Reformation.
What does undoing the Reformation mean at this point? It's unlikely the Catholic Church can regain the authority they used to have. Guénon said something pretty insightful about the state of the church: they're a man with a treasure chest, but they don't have the key to the chest. Meaning they don't truly understand their own tradition, and are therefore incapable of producing a legitimate adaptation of the doctrine for the present context.