The pedantry of Western man and its consequences

The excess of useless or, at least, fickle knowledge has thrown Western postmodern man into an involutive and self-destructive spiral of pathetic contours. By moving away from the elementary principles of truth, represented by the Creative Wisdom of the Eternal, the Word, so to speak, the Logos , and absorbing as sociocultural dogmas daydreams woven in pagan and proto-progressive surroundings, formatted by the heirs of the ancient satanic Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek traditions, sold to this West as the fundamental gnosis , the alchemy of good or the foundation of knowledge, from which we should draw our ethical and moral guidelines, Western man dug his own existential grave, shot his identity as a divine creature with a deadly shot and opened the way for global disorder – which we agreed to call at some point the New World Order – to take over his senses and impose itself in such a way that, as predicted in the Judeo-Christian Holy Scriptures, the entire world would reach the state of “lying in the power of the evil one” ( I John 5:19 ).

Everything was an enchantment. Logic and metaphysics. Sophistry and politics. And the Apostle Paul, through the Spirit, warned: “Professing to be wise, they became fools!” ( Romans 1:22 ).

In the context in which Paul says this, writing in a Greco-Roman context, he immediately warns about the moral degeneration that inevitably accompanies the turning away from God and His Word. And he describes in detail the abominations and filth that we can see today in the media, in marketing, in business, in the arts, being imposed as the norm of a world that simply does not know how to deal with the situation and wastes its time asking empty and insipid questions like: “Are they crazy?” or “What do they think they will gain from this?” And the reason they do not know how to answer these questions? It is simple: they, the “wise men,” do not have the “intellectual tools” necessary to interpret these signs, because for them, these “tools” either do not exist, or are no longer valid, or are the fruit of superstitious or fundamentalist minds. They do not know that what they insist does not exist or is not part of the equation, is increasingly taking hold of their lives.

Western pedantry has several fathers. Descartes is one of its main ones. He is the face of the postmodern Western thinker, endowed with a convenient and superficial pragmatism, who loses himself in the face of the transcendental/supernatural that governs the world through what we have learned to call – erroneously – “ideologies”. No one describes him better than the – indeed – brilliant Pascal: “I cannot forgive Descartes; he would have liked, in all his philosophy, to do without God, but he could not avoid making him give a flick of the wrist to set the world in motion; after which he no longer needs God”  (Pensamentos, Article II, 77). The Western opinion maker is too “intelligent” to “admit” God beyond what is protocol. He – man – acts as if he were saying to the Eternal: “I know you exist, but stay there, quietly on your throne, because my knowledge is enough to manage my life and the world around me! ” Well, we are seeing how man is great at managing the world around him, which is exactly this world, this reality, which day after day slips through his fingers and is transmuted into a progressive nightmare of hideous colors, about which he, the pragmatic know-it-all, can do absolutely nothing, because he does not even admit a basic concept that has been respected since man learned to speak: the invisible governs the visible. His faith, or what he understands to be one, is submissive to everything that is lesser than it: philosophies, schools of thought and preconceived ideas of the world based on the environment in which they live, subverting the inevitable human immanence and throwing it at the feet of Freudian, Marxist and Rousseauian delusions, among others, which rolled out the carpet of human disorder to the West and were received with celebration by the status quo of the centuries that followed.

That is why Western man, Western conservatives, have no way of stopping the ethical and moral degradation that is engulfing the world. Although strong in words, convinced in ideals and full of human knowledge, they lack the fundamental: the spiritual nobility of a warrior of God. And this is only possible when man understands his intellectual limitations and stops trying to explain what is generated spiritually using material language. Or does anyone think that the fact that all the great progressive/socialist thinkers chose the Judeo-Christian faith as their great adversary was by chance? The truly ridiculous part: all conservatives know this, but what do they do about it? They fall into the dialectical trap of Marx, Freud, Gramsci and others and, proud of their knowledge of aesthetics and Neoplatonism, they hit the tip of the boot of reality, which is having to accept down their throats a world that only exists in hysterical dystopias, with that melancholic air of someone who spends hours looking at the books on the shelf and doesn't know the best way to burn them.

The system laughs at all this. It has finally found the target it always wanted: the man without God. A semi-worldly, ritualistic, superstitious Descartes, devoid of dogmas and in open rejection of the spiritual world. Who thinks, thinks and thinks, but cannot do more than that, because he is tied to the “regimental” bonds of an illusory pragmatism that will gradually suffocate him. A mockery of a man, devoid of power from on high, of ancestral identity, of spiritual depth. The type who even talks about ethics and morals, as long as they do not impose themselves on the human systems that he has been trained to obey. It is this man, pedantic, and whose spiritual alienation is a structural factor, who is largely responsible for the disaster that looms on the prophetic horizon of humanity.

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Article published in the Knowledge & Citizenship Magazine  Vol. I No. 11 May 2022 edition – ISSN 2764-3867