Infrastructures of nations cannot be sustained without workers, without a solid base of citizens who want to build a country, have national and personal goals which overlap.
As young people remain single in these countries, or are dinkies, (dual-income, no kids intended-an old nineties phrase in my part of the world), the cult of death spins the web of deceit, dulling the sense of what is necessary for a future people to exist.
Most no longer care, falling into carpe diem.
Horace's Ode is famous, but even his idea held some reckoning of the old idea of "enduring" hard times, which many are not facing through gaming, clubing, endless consumerism and so on.
Tu ne quaesieris—scire nefas—quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati!
seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrhenum. Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Ask not—we cannot know—what end the gods have set
for you, for me; nor attempt the Babylonian reckonings Leuconoë. How
much better
to endure whatever comes, whether Jupiter grants us additional winters
or
whether this is our last, which now wears out the Tuscan Sea upon the
barrier
of the cliffs! Be wise, strain the wine; and since life is brief,
prune back far-reaching hopes! Even while we speak, envious time has
passed:
pluck the day, putting as little trust as possible in tomorrow!
This, of course, is not the Christian philosophy of life, which is to love God and one's neighbor as one's self.
That last part of the Christian statement is the crux of the matter. People do not love themselves. They do not love their souls. They do not love God, which enables one to love one's self properly.
The cult of death pushes entire civilizations into despair and hatred. "What is there to fight for anyway", one young person said to me....
Those who care....are fewer and fewer; fact, the remnant.
The cult of death is a suicidal cult, destroying babies, ideas, holiness.
On which side of the line in the sand are your standing? Life or death?
From Deuteronomy 30:
11Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’ 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’ 14 No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.
15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[b] that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
11 Jan 2012
In
Japan, on this link, one sees one of the reasons for the plunging
birthrate. Young people are not "falling in love". Generations of
selfish pursuits and the cult of childhood created a narcissistic
culture where young people not ...
10 Jul 2012
Where
the Hoplites fought and died in great numbers, not knowing if their
sacrifice would bring victory, we as Catholics should have even more
reason to jump into the fight: we *know* victory is assured and that
sacrifice for the Kingdom will be efficacious. It's every general's
dream, really. (and what a great general we have to ... Bravery is dying
and the cult of the individual is destroying patriotism. 10 July 2012
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06 Sep 2012
Western
culture has been enamored with classlessness and with mediocrity for
several generations and I am bored to death of both. Part of the "cult"
of the gentleman in 19th century and the first half of the 20th
century ...
31 Mar 2012
This
cult of trying to look very young and very cute, like a child, and even
speaking like one, in imitation of anime heroes, both male and female. I
have written on Japanese narcissism in January here on this blog and
now, ...
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10 May 2012
We
will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain
about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult,
which is dead already, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer
be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently;
but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man's home, where
he will find life and hope beyond death.” - Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict
XVI), Faith and the Future. 10 May 2012 15:42.
10 Sep 2012
The
death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European
tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western
nation.” ... The Diversity Cult “The non-Europeanization of America is
heartening news of an almost transcendental quality,” Wattenberg
trilled.4 Yet, one wonders: What kind of man looks with transcendental
joy to a day when the people among whom he was raised have become a
minority in a nation where the majority ...
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01 Dec 2013
But,
many are not and many have been swept away and will be swept away by
the cult of the Messiah, whoever he or she may be. When the final ...
Compromise sets us backwards, even to death of the soul. In His Will is
our ...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The Cult of Death
Americans have moved from being an upbeat nation of those who looked to the future, to a nation which sinking into sentimentality and love of the past. Sad.
Part of the problem is that now singles form one-half of the adult population of America. Children make adults look towards the future, but with so many singles not interested in the future, but only the now, posterity is not even on the radar.
I have been pondering the preoccupation with the past among people I have met recently.
Coming to the conclusion that people are in love with death, rather than life.
Why?
Why does a culture look to the past? Why are most television shows merely repeats of 1980s shows?
Why are many movies remakes of older movies?
Why is there a preoccupation with old music, old memories, old cars, old brand names if even mediocre ones...?
These odd "celebrations of life", that even Catholics are falling into instead of saying the rosary for three days for the soul who, hopefully, is in Purgatory, deny temporal punishment for sin, and, also, the un-Biblical emphasis on universal salvation-that everyone goes to heaven.
These so-called celebrations look towards the past, and not the reality of eternal life.
The cult of death also causes the preoccupation with vampires, witchcraft, satanism, and the numerous forms of the occult.
There is a demon of Death, who is wanting people to think of negativity, despair, suicide, death.
Jesus is the Lord of Life. Look to Christ.
John 14:6
6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.
