It’s the end of the year — a remarkable year — and all the experts and philosophizers are trying to understand what is going on. Their takes range from the religious to the ideological to the sociological to the scientific.
The question: is the new era that is dawning upon us a new religious awakening, as reported by Peter Savodnik at the Free Press, or a return to the sensible ideologies of Tocqueville and Burke, as suggested by Mark Lewis? Or is the future Forever Woke as proposed by Werner A. Zagrebbi on Curtis Yarvin’s Substack?
Or, there’s the belief of academic Jeff Bloodworth that every leftward lurch by our liberal friends merely provokes a pushback by the center, whether it’s from Richard Nixon and his Silent Majority or Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.
Then there is Curtis Yarvin, whose latest piece is analyzing the immigration issue and the H1B fracas. Says he:
The nation is the people. The state is the owner of the nation — the land, structures, and people — which are its sovereign property.
And therefore the state, like any corporation, should be concentrating on appreciating the value of its human assets, and not on H1Bs which are assets “captured” from other states.
Here’s another take: wondering about the meaning of climate change fanatics like Die Grünen in Germany. Is their vision of a simpler life practical or just fantasy? Craig DeLancey thinks it’s fantasy, rehearsing the faith of the Romantics in the simple life. Says he:
It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists. They can pursue the Arcadian vision, and seek to live a less energy-intensive, less acquisitive life… But the business of life is life.
But what is life?
warned us against.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Hey, Fauci! How yer doin’ pal?
Then there is the need for an honest review of What Worked. In between the stupid wars and stupid government programs and ruling-class crazes from free health care to climate change, there have been ideas and science and technology that have delivered astonishing human welfare. And our new knowledge has profoundly deepened our understanding of what we know and what we can only guess at.
It seems to me — and to all the ponderers I have mentioned above — that the time is right for all of us to conjure up a new understanding of God and the Divine — Life, the Universe, Everything.
We humans know a heck of a lot.
And yet we Know Nothing.
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill blogs at The Commoner Manifesto and runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.
Image: Caspar David Friedrich
Jesus Christ is King
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