“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” -St Augustine
Augustine could have uttered the statement above yesterday instead of 1800 years ago and it would be true. It is, in fact, more true of our day than it was of his. Technology and money have put the travel he celebrates in the quote within reach of more people on any given day than lived on the entire planet back then. Rising rates of confusion, depression, drug abuse, family disintegration and suicide prove that our generation has regressed since Augustine’s time. We don’t wonder about ourselves. We, instead, work ourselves into a frenzy defending the indefensible when it comes to our humanity.
This passionate intensity on the part of “progressives” is met with the shrinking majority’s silence in the West. It appears inevit ...
