{"id":32878,"date":"2020-10-31T02:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32878"},"modified":"2020-10-31T02:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T07:51:48","slug":"briefly-enlightenment-makes-me-an-enemy-of-todays-sick-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32878","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Enlightenment makes me an enemy of today\u2019s sick culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Back-to-Enlightenment-ideas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32879\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Back-to-Enlightenment-ideas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Back-to-Enlightenment-ideas.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Back-to-Enlightenment-ideas-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more I understand about myself, about human nature and about the nature of reality, the more I realize I\u2019m a radical by the standards of both Modernism and Postmodernism. Seeing the things which I\u2019m stumbling toward makes me an enemy of many of the core ideas upon which contemporary culture is built. It exposes the culture as a monstrous lie \u2014 like a dangerous infection that\u2019s slowly destroying what human were created to be. My \u201cinner observer\u201d has always known that truth was found in the ideas of the Enlightenment, but I\u2019m slowly finding words to explain what has merely been instinct until now. The Enlightenment was humanity\u2019s great leap forward, but shallow and arrogant thinkers for the next two centuries threw away the fruits of that achievement. We can\u2019t go forward as a species until we go back to correct this intellectual and spiritual error \u2014 and part of that is acknowledging that our collective attempts to do away with our Creator will always fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I understand about myself, about human nature and about the nature of reality, the more I realize I\u2019m a radical by the standards of both Modernism and Postmodernism. Seeing the things which I\u2019m stumbling toward makes me an enemy of many of the core ideas upon which contemporary culture is built. 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