“The Death of Virtue—A Telltale Sign of Civilizational Collapse”
“The Death of Virtue—A Telltale Sign of Civilizational Collapse” The path of the virtuous leads away from evil; whoever follows that path is safe. -Proverbs 16:17, NLT “When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.” -Saint Augustine We live in an era of unthinkable absurdity. Up is down. Black is white. Evil is good. Light is dark. Truth is a lie. Right is wrong. Virtue is vice. Gender is fluid. And we have thousands of “friends” (on social media). In all this, what you think you plainly see is not really what you are seeing—your eyes are deceiving you (so say the masters of gaslighting). What you have been taught and have cherished as sincerely held beliefs are really just hateful, bigoted talking points used to inflict pain, guilt and shame on others. In essence, your core values are nothing more than a harmful fraud. I saw this “theater of the absurd” surreptitiously develop over the three decades of my teaching career. Little by littl...