The American Spectator

Alan Brooks| 1.9.09 @ 9:13PM

perhaps grave and reactionary (read: conservative) isn't so bad depending on what brand of liberal democracy one examines. If it is classical and '50s liberal democracy then being gravely "reactionary" isn't necessary. However a visit to the parallel universe of social pathology makes you want to say "what harm can it do?".
After 20 years as a radic-lib and 30 years as a futurist all genuine optimism has receded.
We'll just stumble through. Outside of God there exists no real 'we'.
The depravity is positively shocking, almost a caricature of entertainment (using the word 'entertainment' advisedly) nothing could be stranger than reality not even SF.
Scientific progress is almost a travesty itself, immortality for what? why? and the how is most unpleasant.
Space colonization? now, golly, when will people or posthumans live on Mars? 2500? God grant 'humanity' the patience.
Thatcher has been proven correct, there is no society save for in the spiritual sense.
And this bitterness doesn't derive from what is occurring today, it's been going up and down like a roller coaster for the 45 years I remember. Just like life itself, upm and down, around around, endlessly, purposelessly. Can you imagine what wrenching dislocation will occur after 2010?

And people are worried about God in the public square?
if only we could have God in the public square to worry about.