Today’s Reading: Everything is Broken
An interesting column, but which, alas, identifies the problem in terms of surface features. Nonetheless, identifying the surface features of the problem is crucial.
The more people who recognize the degree of corruption and catastrophic failure our self-anointed elites have inflicted, the greater will be the Great Awakening when the nation returns to sanity, by which I mean, of course, return to Christ.
But the column is worth reading, for everything is broken. In the unseen, cosmic war between heaven and hell, Earth is behind enemy lines.
The opening anecdote tells of a painful failure of the medical industry, the absurdity of expert opinion and the dangerous indifference to human suffering one mother encountered when her newborn was misdiagnosed. The narrative thread then moves to the corruption and moral inversion of the News Industry, whose main office is suppressing, not reporting, news.
The author has a dark epiphany:
If the medical industry was comprehensively broken, and the media was irrevocably broken, as we knew it was … Was everything in America broken? Was education broken? Housing? Farming? Cities? Was religion broken?
Everything is broken…
In her conclusion the author observes:
The vast majority of Americans are not ideologues. They are people who wish to live in a free country and get along with their neighbors while engaging in profitable work, getting married, raising families, being entertained, and fulfilling their American right to adventure and self-invention.
They are also the consumer base for movies, TV, books, and other cultural products. Every time Americans are given the option to ratify progressive dictates through their consumer choices, they vote in the opposite direction.
When HBO removed Gone with the Wind from its on-demand library last year, it became the #1 bestselling movie on Amazon. Meanwhile, endless numbers of Hollywood right-think movies and supposed literary masterworks about oppression are dismal failures for studios and publishing houses that would rather sink into debt than face a social-justice firing squad on Twitter.
This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.
She speaks only of America, but the corruption fills all Christendom, and is worldwide.
Her advice as to how to win victory and cure the global hellscape of postmodern postliberty strikes me as somewhat shallow and giddy, since one does not overcome a long-entrenched and ruthless establishment backed by the all the power of Antichrist and every major legal and cultural institution by grassroots happytalk, when a crusade, a last crusade, is needed, and on every front of the sevenfold worldwide war.
But I recommend the column nonetheless, as it adroitly admits the scope of the problem: everything is broken.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
