tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875703880331088131.post3798718362745235216..comments2023-08-16T08:44:38.912-04:00Comments on Blog of the Dormition: The Way of LifeJohn R.P. Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02755313230578655992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875703880331088131.post-50136361580547447802007-10-20T23:59:00.000-04:002007-10-20T23:59:00.000-04:00It's interesting to me that the information age se...It's interesting to me that the information age seems to produce attacks on virtue primarily through the manipulation of language. Physical violence and other social deterrents have always been and are still employed today. But massive reconstruction of language is, as far as I know, a newer and particularly effective measure "to strip meaning and significance from all human actions". While violence and coercion can control action, language controls thought. To me, that’s particularly insidious. We struggle to understand our significance and power, our place in the world, our reason for being and the meaning of life now. How much more difficult will it be when “the right way” means “any way”?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875703880331088131.post-30598772015179503612007-10-20T23:58:00.000-04:002007-10-20T23:58:00.000-04:00Bravo. This must be said over and over.I wonder i...Bravo. This must be said over and over.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if loss of the Thomistic vision of the hierarchy of good has contributed to the dictatorship of relativism. <BR/><BR/>If all things are good only in proportion to God, it follows that any thing may be perfect and yet penultimate.<BR/><BR/>All things which have, if they have, goodness, they have it in that they direct us to God, who alone is good for all occasions, things, times, and places.<BR/><BR/>Did Western man get whipsawed, when the Reformation abandoned the incarnational idea of a hierarchy of goods, and then when the Enlightenment dethroned God as the best good?<BR/><BR/>Did this reduce all penultimate goods to the dilemma -- meaninglessness or pretention to divinity?<BR/><BR/>Odd how the culture of death's "lifestyles" seem to embody this choice. They demand the obeiscance which belongs to God, while trivializing themselves into meaningless "for you / for me" truth-styles.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy your blog. Keep blogging. Not blogging can be a habit, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com