Of Innovators and Men

The forces of innovation, guided by the power elite, are directed against traditional societies and the objective moral order . . .

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Thinking of innovation you have to separate out what things are appropriately subjective and objective. Economic value is subjective. Therefore, the innovators in the market economy developing new and better products and services is a good thing. There is no right or wrong really unless the products interact with the sphere of universal moral values, natural law, and purpose. As much as the author hates skinny jeans, they don’t represent a moral bad or a loss of human meaning.

But innovating in the spiritual, moral, natural law sense is destructive. The culture war we are in fueled by various Leftists ideologies is orchestrated by the Conditioners but the ground troops are the Innovators. It is a religious war. Because to say there is natural law is to say that there is design and order and intention by an super-intelligence over creation. It is wrong to innovate because God has made humans so.

What that means is that the culture war is Conditioners vs Christianity. The standard of natural law is the written Word and the Word made flesh. If you aren’t firmly on His side you will find yourself on the other.

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March 23, 2023 RMB Reply

“It is wrong to innovate because God has made humans so”. One can also say that, because God has made the Law that “as you sow, so must you reap”(which curiously fits the Law of Karma also), innovation is required to meet the CHANGING circumstances of what has been sown and therefore what MUST be reaped. So, eras of Advance and Decline, of Enlightenment, and Dark Age, along with Ages of Medieval Stasis, (Creation, Preservation, Destruction; the Hindu Trinity) seems likely to be necessary, and probably over and over again, as each new generation has to relearn lessons that previous generations paid dearly to learn (our institutions of learning are imperfect, as is everything else; which, if it was perfect, it would be one with God, and thus no need for a separate Creation to exist in the first place).

March 25, 2023 Larry Bowen Reply

If natural law is “engraved in the heart” of people everywhere as the Apostle Paul wrote, John Locke expounded and the Declaration of Independence enshrined, it is enormously difficult to verify empirically, with perhaps one exception. If an unsupervised infant has crawled out into the street (which I witnessed recently), it is assumed even a mass murderer or homeless indigent would be compelled to rescue the baby. But if that child is not a member of his tribe (or religion) the response of a bystander may be indifference or outright desire to murder as seen recently in Nashville; just as the members of the Political Class may incite violence by calling for the death of Donald Trump or his “deplorable” followers without a moral qualm. Ergo, moral imperatives do not naturally or necessarily apply to enemy tribes or political parties, but nonetheless government must strive for an “objectified” moral order. But what happens when it is revealed that government has been organized crime for the last 2,000 years?

Conversely, both tribes and parties will give minimal lip service that slavery is evil and that stealing to feed a starving family should not be a crime. But it has taken many years of re-socialization to get people to deplore slavery and not to hang people for real, not staged, crimes of necessity.

If neither absolutism or relativism are firm a basis for government, and depend on historical time and place, the question then becomes on what foundation do we base government? This is especially crucial because neither Christianity or Judaism prohibited slavery, Jesus said nothing about it, Paul advocated only kindness toward slaves, and Judaism only sought to regulate (legalize) it. Neither were the classicists involved in this evolution. Aristotle, the progenitor of natural law, believed there was a class of “natural slaves”. Greeks asserted there was a natural domination of men, civilized Hellenes and citizens over women, Trojan barbarians and slaves. Thomas Aquinas grafted natural law into Catholic Christianity. But with the creation of labor and property markets what evolved was what French sociologist Daniele Hervieu-Leger termed the “ecumenism of human rights” tied to Western cultural imperialism and globalization. Concomitantly, and perhaps more importantly, oligarchs saw their fortunes tied to the creation of such markets. oligarchs no longer see open markets as a way to enhance their fortunes and control over the masses. But, oligarchs no longer see open markets as a way to enhance their fortunes and control over the masses. Moreover, human rights has morphed into a twisted transhumanism.

If there is an empirical Natural Law it is found in the Law of Unintended Consequences and in the biological grounding of the sexes. Wars and social movements typically end up with an opposite outcome of the ideology that was sold to the public to legitimize them. Many of us are waking up that we may have lived a moral life, but it might have been that of a moral fool who was tricked into fighting unnecessary and genocidal wars on behalf of the rich and legitimizing organized crime (Erasmus – In Praise of Folly). And the Trans movement is a movement to “free” women of the burden of childbirth by establishing a technocratic medical industry and international law that takes over the natural role of motherhood. However, this is only resulting in brainwashing, drugging and mutilation of mainly weakly socialized women. Necessary and foolhardy illusions may keep the world tolerable and preserve a false happiness; and folly may make religious and government rulers blind enough in their vicious irresponsibility. We may have to end up refusing to love country, parents, children and friends insofar as they reject the goodness of God and promoting a child’s unnatural interest in death and unwitting slavery. The Apostle Paul put it this way: we have to be a fool for Christ.

April 3, 2023 Wayne Lusvardi Reply

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