Source: Brownstone Institute
by Christiaan WJM Alting von Geusau
“In our highly developed and enormously prosperous Western liberal democratic societies, we have become convinced that we are now, due to the scientific and technological progress, prowess, and power we have built over the centuries as a ‘superior’ civilization, entirely self-made humans that are the masters over life, death, and creation, in fact taking the Marxist ideological cue from totalitarian regimes past and present such as the Soviet Union and China. This in combination with the rapid secularization of Western societies and the mainstreaming of cultural relativism over the past decades has also made many believe that God is dead and will remain so, as Friedrich Nietzsche infamously put it already in his time, and that the transcendent order the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian culture integrated into society as the conceptual framework in which human life as a whole was to be understood, is no longer relevant, even bigoted.” (10/21/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/friends-and-enemies-of-human-conscience/