[The modern opposition between ‘obligation’ and ‘exercises of the heart’ erodes.
Modern “freedom” is defined as the lack of responsibility.
This definition denies the pre-modern view that ‘’freedom’ was ‘the capacity to create and maintain responsibilities’.]
[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. ]
[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.]
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.]
[Big government (il)liberals reduce American citizens with their words.
Progressives desire to put all Americans (outside the state itself) into bondage.]
[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.]
[The use of the law in the name of ‘social justice’ serves as an example.
The use manifests the sin of pride through overt displays of scruples.
This is called virtue signaling.]
[St. Paul’s admission that ‘the law induces sin’ cuts many ways. Prohibition may awaken the desire for sin. Sin may awaken the desire for prohibition.]
