Yesterday, I mentioned an article by Chloe Mastour at Chronicles. I'm re-reading it this morning because I think it's so important. It exposes a serious problem in our society -- humanity's submission to shallow consensus thinking. We saw it during COVID. How many people actually did the research on what was essentially an experimental therapy that we see now damaged the immune system and crossed the brain/blood barrier to wreak havoc on the population. [That statement will no doubt get me censored by the Blogger blathering fact checkers. So I'm posting at Substack where people can provide evidence without the facts being labeled misleading and a violation of B's woke guidelines.]
Conservatism Amid the Signal Flood
But back to the article written by a history student at the University of Pennsylvania. Chloe gives me hope for the future. She's young and smart and willing to tell the hard truth. I expect to see more of her in the future, or at least whatever brief future is left to me. I'll be praying for her now and later when I stand before the judgment seat of God.
Mamdani's election in New York as well as the COVID debacle illustrate this point in the article:
Confident in our democratic pretensions, we presume our neighbors to be as reasoned and self-directed as we fancy ourselves. Yet the vast majority will accept what they are told without question, content to be guided by external forces, partly because they lack the cognitive infrastructure to do anything else, and partly because they simply prefer not to exert the effort.
My dad used to say not to judge the rest of humanity by myself. He was a realist when it came to judging the thoughts and actions of the masses. Does that sound elitist? Or is it just reality? The fact is that the most damage can be done by smart people partly because they know how to manipulate the masses and often do. Think of Anthony Fauci.
William Buckley used to joke that he'd rather be ruled by the first 400 names in the phone book than by Ivy League graduates. The question is whether your smarts are combined with love of God and His laws. And smarts should not be equated with education. I suspect many holy men and women working as waitresses, health aides, janitors, etc. knew better than to vote for the gaggle of giggling Democrats who swept the elections on Tuesday. I would take any three of them, randomly chosen, to replace our newly elected Virginia governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, the disastrous trio chosen by the electorate either through ignorance or because they embrace their evil policies.
Chloe Mastour offers some advice beginning with the reminder:
...that life is oriented toward transcendent meaning, that virtue demands cultivation beyond the mere exercise of free will, and that human collectives are always shaped and restrained by moral frameworks that bind generation.
Read the article. It's worth the time and worth saving. The pen is mightier than the sword, but only when critical thinkers separate the wheat of wisdom from the chaff of slogans, memes, and groupthink.
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.
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