Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VI
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[The elixir of postmodern alchemy dissolves crystalline modernity.
Uncertainty replaces certainty.]
05/9/19
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in
Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
05/8/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VH
[Consider the thoughts that this piece of legislation has engendered.
Corporate media spew Progressive thinkpro-object while regulations remove freedom and responsibility from both providers and recipients.
Another name for a system without choice is a single payer system.]
05/7/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VG
[What is the meaning of each word?
Affordability is not determined by the consumer, but by a federal bureaucracy.
Care is not defined by the consumer, but by a faceless bureaucracy.
No one else is to be held responsible. No one else is to exercise freedom.
Our federal bureaucracy, who art in Washington, hallowed be thy name.]
05/6/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VF
[The term “words” points to a new plane of awareness.
Post-religious (enlightenment) religions alchemically fuse words to sin and thoughts to law.
Consider the misleading title of a purely Progressive law: The Affordable Care Act.
Each word misleads.]
04/30/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VC
[But, aren’t obligations identical to responsibilities?
Yes and no.
Yes, responsibilities are obligations.
No, obligations are also identical to empty promises.]
04/26/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VA
[Following to Carl Jung, late moderns have shown themselves ready to abandon actuality, in favor the alchemy of postmodern fashions.
These fashions dissolve the facticity supporting the mythos and the logos of science itself. ]
04/25/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UZ
[For example, moderns could not believe in or comprehend the medieval practices of alchemy, a pre-modern inquiry that confounded all three categories of existence.
Perhaps, the first modern to realize that ‘alchemy was not ridiculous’ was Carl Jung. However, he could not quite figure out the categories of existence indicated by these fusions of mystical hints, recipes and images.]
04/24/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UY
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[The nested form allows us to see relations within a text. It is sort of like alchemy.
In contrast, moderns are blind to relations. Moderns programmatically reconfigure normal context and possibility into actuality. The all-embracing assumption of Modernism is: Actuality is all there is.]
04/19/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UV
[Big government (il)liberals reduce American citizens with their words.
Progressives desire to put all Americans (outside the state itself) into bondage.]
04/18/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UT
[The sinner declares: “I am righteous. I am an advocate of social justice.”
Then, the sinner promotes Progressive sovereign legislation, building the central state into an all-encompassing temple of multitudes of organizational objectives.
Organization objectives support bureaucracies that treat human beings as subjects to organize according to the desired objectives.
How inhumane.]