Elon Musk Is Getting Close
If you’re not rigorous about truth and honesty, you’re going to live in a deluded world
By Jack Rigert
“The reason I believe in truth and honesty is because I’m trying to understand the universe. I’m trying to understand reality. I’m trying to understand what’s the meaning of life, what we are here for, what’s going on. If you’re not rigorous about truth and honesty, then you’re obviously going to live in a deluded world. You won’t understand the nature of reality.” —Elon Musk, Lancaster, Pennsylvania October 26, 2024.
Elon is getting close! Today we are faced with a culture and a nation in crisis and decline. Ultimately this is a crisis of individual human hearts, men and women, who have rejected objective truth and instead have embraced subjective constructs of individual thoughts and feelings. This follows closely on the heels of Europe and western civilization as a whole, that is for all practical purposes not only in decline, but is already dead.
Bishop Fulton Sheen with a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, saw the roots of this decline and today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, warning of a crisis in Christendom. “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” he said solemnly during a television show. “Now not Christianity, not the Church, but Christendom that is economic, political and social life as inspired by Christian principals. That is ending—we’ve seen it die. Look at the symptoms: the breakup of the family, divorce, immorality, general dishonesty.”
That was 1974. Today we know it is much worse. Almost every institution has been compromised by corruption including the Church. The murder of the innocents is a right, marriage and the family have been redefined to mean anything and so nothing. Gender ideologies are pushed on children and parents are forced to comply by a weaponized justice system. Bishop Sheen reminded us that of the twenty-two major civilizations that have decayed since the beginning of human history, nineteen rotted and perished from within, “We live in it day to day, and do not see the decline”.
Today many people have a sense that something is terribly wrong but because they live day to day like the frog in the proverbial pot, consciences dulled by moral relativism, they have become apathetic to the evils of this present age. Consciences close to death, they are easily manipulated by anyone who appeals to their emotions and feelings with words such as being nice, kind, compassionate and accepting of others regardless of what is objectively true, good or beautiful. They have forgotten that being kind is not the same as love. That to love someone is to will their good, what is good for them. Allowing children to be murdered in the womb, rendered sterile, and to have their sex organs cut off is not kind or loving.
This brief sketch presents us with a contrast between two opposing forces. One built upon all that is true, good and beautiful, especially the beauty of love, the culture of life, and one built upon the shifting sands of lies, evil and the profane, one especially opposed to authentic love, the culture of death.
In turn, for Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, a “nation” was more than a matter of ethnicity and territory, its reality defined by lines on a map. A “nation” was an expression of culture, of a people’s language and literature, its science, music, and fine arts—and, of course, its religious convictions. In a certain sense, nations had souls (or, as he would put it philosophically, “subjectivity”).
…to be continued
