An Imbalance In Modern Thought

I submitted the following comment on the American Thinker site, in response to another comment stating that the United States suffers now from an "ideological imbalance" -- specifically, towards the far Left, or Democrat end. It may, and should be, of interest here (and, by the way, I will take no political comments on this science blog):

The ideological imbalance came from cutting man off from the ancient wisdom, the traditions that the Enlightenment itself sprang from, and which is the unchanging foundation of all human wisdom. It was present from the beginning, but few in each generation were able to pass it on more or less whole, until democracy wrested power from the "divine Kingship", culminating in a country founded upon the inalienable rights of the individual ahead of the state.

Of course those wisdom traditions, so powerful in their effects, were bound up with religion, and the roots of religion have been hidden, despite all of the Creation myths, including the Genesis summary.

We are suffering today the consequences of false dogmas, both ancient and modern. The ancient ones -- the false ones, remember, is what I'm talking about -- all revolve around the idea of coercion of the individual in the name of one or another god or goddess, later in the name of an omnipotent, omniscient God behind all things. The modern ones all stem from the "humanist" backlash to all the old religious abuses, to throw God out with the bathwater of science as it were. Only the scientists, and their secular-humanist followers, got it wrong from the very beginning of their revolution (in Darwin's theory of evolution): It turns out there IS meaning to the world, not just human experience, without conscious learning to improve one's self and one's lot.

The Left is just the canary (tired, old, and stubborn to the end, but still just a canary, a bellweather) in the coal mine of human experience.

God is meaning, meaningfulness itself, and it is not accidental, conditional, or transient. It is eternal, and we are only here to learn that THAT is the only proper foundation for a life well-lived. From THAT flows the idea that All Men are Created Equal, etc., etc., etc..

And from that comes the knowledge that nothing on this Earth is accidental or the mere product of uncounted natural accidents, altogether added up and judged, falsely, as "evolution". It was all designed...only not all at once, direct from God.

No use trying to get into details, not all of which anyone knows anyway. Suffice it to say, undirected "evolution" is not the way of the world...Learning is the way of the world.

Which requires avoiding becoming attached to dogma, which inevitably descends into false, and from that coercive, dogma.

No, we are all here to LEARN the design of things, and know them as designs, within a greater design.

This is just a learning world. We actually come from and go back to, a greater and truer existence than the merely physical.

That's what we all, and especially the Insane Left, need to learn.