The silent witness in the wilderness -By Robert Fullarton Copyright 2017

The silent witness in the wilderness
-By Robert Fullarton

There are those who seek to condemn every little nuance of intolerance on one side of the spectrum while turn a blind eye to the obvious cruelties and abominations that are rising, like a revival of primitivism, a return to savage rite and in this a huge hypocrisy stands in the midst of those who take the high moral ground. One law for one bunch of people and another law for the others, this is the a la carte mentality, a la carte democracy, of a McCarthyesque system of control, of witch hunting and demonising that has ironically been spewed from the hate filled mobs that claim to "love rights", "love freedom" and hate fascism!! Is it not true that a tree is known for its fruit, and one's deeds stand as a testimony for all times, like a log book for our life, our deeds are recorded in history, we cannot justify the crimes of violence, hatred, destruction of property and death threats that have come about from the mob rule and mob mentality that is growing, from a confused body of ideologues, where the rule books and laws of common sense have been burned, having been flung out of the college campus windows. Likewise men give hate a reason, mere words are used as the ammunition to take pot-shots at the societal sensitivities that have been inflated beyond belief. But it is obvious and true to state that when you transplant the churches and the traditions of the past, the heart shaped box (as the philosopher Pascal coined in a phrase) must be filled, the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of man are embedded with state ideologue, state rhetoric and idealism, a man cannot apparently reach heaven, so he must make heaven here on earth and do so at all costs!

We see the contemporaneous rise of primitivism, barbarism, where such is clothed in a fancy rhetoric, promoted deliberately, given immunity, amnesty, where it seduces western minds with something- which is "other" than Christianity and the old traditions- and yet the facts need to be read and studied for themselves by reliable sources. I do believe that the leisure and pleasure society -a society built on entertainment, a sort of modern day Graeco-Roman world- is poised through its own encouraged and promoted negligence, through its naive stance, ignorance of facts, disbelief in the moral absolutes of the nation and of course the complacency of the common citizen, such is on the knife edge, or at the final stage of what was once a mighty empire, and empires collapse from internal divide. All empires have their phases, their rise, apex and nadir, but all such empires can be examined and the cultural dismemberment begins in internal dissent, where the strength of the nation, the integral morality within of a civil society fails and perishes, through generations of constant doubt, skepticism, of waging war within, such a society is once again on the knife's edge and ready to collapse!

We have apparently doubted the facts to death, man wants everything, and wants to go to those territories that were previously of limits. Man scoffs at his authority, and states "there will be no limits" to the future, as man can apparently cross the entire "smorgasboard" of experiences and beliefs, can keep them all, can uphold them all, can place all on equal terms and upon equal footing. The naysayer, the dissenter to this nonsense is of course an "old fashioned" "buffoon" of some sort who is not in touch with the "fashion of ideas" which each generation has been spoon fed on through the peer pressure and mass movements of societal thought! Apparently truth changes?

These destructive demolition charges were placed at the core of harmonious and healthy thought, were set alight by the words of men like Schopenhauer, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Sartre. The very moral compass on which the western world looked to has apparently been smashed and trod upon. We see youth today from a certain age seeking answers and finding substitutes, with suicide rates higher than they have ever been. The semantics of life have been demoted, the spiritual core and nature of man denied for the mounds and temples man has made to a knowledge "without reason", as if X amount of knowledge grants one all answers. The hedonistic phase will not last forever, as the hearts of men- with the cigarette buts of the wasted days- but as all empires die they are replaced by another, one is more aggressive, who uses, not only word, but sword and doctrine (positing belief) and who appeal to those seeking inner power for the the growing messianic politics of this tragic world around us.

Truth is eternal, it cannot be changed by well-wishing, by the tirades and rounds of vitriolic bile that are spewed against it, it remains whether conceived to be a positive thing or a negative thing. Truth comes out from the tumult and the storm, still strong, shinning and for those who hold to the truth who may receive a battering, but they are the holders of the torch, the runners, the knights of faith and the little lights glowing in hours of pitch dark, through our darkened megalopolis' these lights are holding on despite being the naysayers and conscience of a compromising and questioning society. These lights are still on, these hearts are holding on, by the grace of God!