Motto
In our days, when the monstrous state of confusion that has engulfed humankind seems to have thrown individuals and societies in complete disarray, one feels almost embarrassed to bring into discussion lofty spiritual matters which may be regarded as inconsequential and naïvely idealistic compared to the grave human problems that our terrestrial existence raises every day. Two thousand years ago, the Bible foretold these circumstances for which René Guénon provided a more recent account: “... the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the divine, Earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the Universe laws drawn entirely from his relative and fallible reason (from “Individualism”, in “The Crisis of Modern World”).
Monday, September 8, 2008
Social Classes
A chiasmatic aphorism illustrates the past and present state of affairs: during bygone times, the noble man was wealthy (by God’s grace) and the wealthy man was necessarily noble; wealth devoid of nobility is a creation of modern era, starting approximately from the time of Renaissance (the infamous Medicis were one of the first notorious examples). As far as today’s “rich and famous”, the immense majority of them are pathetic and pitiful, if not plainly despicable.