Losing the Will to Live

Rebecca Costa gets to the root of the problem. 


Our philosophy really does influence how we live.  Though I am a Christian, this is not the blog where I spend a lot of time advocating for a Judeo-Christian worldview or offering messages and encouragement from a purely Christian perspective.  The reason I try to be less evangelical here is because I believe I have allies for the cause of liberty among non-Christians, nominal Christians, atheists and agnostics. 

However, even the most ardent atheist benefits from having been born into a culture with a positive, spiritual worldview.  The anti-Christian progressives who would love to suppress or at least subsume all religious allegiance to the supremacy of the State derive whatever moral values they possess from the very foundations they seek to undermine.  When the anti-tradition, antichrist cultivation and indoctrination -- especially via the educational system -- has gone as far as it has here in the West, it is not surprising that we should see some of the bad seeds sown begin to bear fruit.  One of those prolific and poisonous vines is nihilism.  

Our children are preached to from the secularist pulpits of government schools.  They are denounced if they believe in the Bible, if they pray over their school lunches (and we all know if any food needs sanctifying it would be a school lunch), if they profess to believe in a higher power than the all-mighty State.  They are told that they are simply animals -- animals whose very presence somehow destroys the "balance of nature" -- though nature alone produced these aberrations through evolution. 

A fairly large percentage of children, frankly, are dull enough to accept the contradictions and confusion of a government indoctrination without protest.  They pursue their simple animal pleasures, get fat, get pregnant, and get high.  Others get angry and express it through violence, especially in the context of gangs where meaninglessness is felt less poignantly in the framework of the new tribalism. 

But what about the loners and outsiders who never seem to quite find their place, who cannot quiet their consciences and the voiceless, wordless longings of the human soul?  They accept the vain and pointless philosophy because they seem to have no other choice; yet they have an intellectual capacity that exceeds that of the dumb cohort.  They see the implications of meaninglessness, of emptiness, of an existence for existence's sake.  They lose the will to live. 

Gang members, thugs, the criminal class in general -- they are a problem that we have always had.  But the nihilists are truly dangerous, and they are the express and highest creations of a decadent and dying culture.  Welcome to your brave new world.