1968: A rip on the fabric of the space-time continuum

This is an idea for a post that has been fermenting for a long time now.  Many months ago, or it may have been over a year ago, I noted how the GDP per person in terms of gold peaked in 1968, and has never exceeded that peak since.  This means something, but as usual, there will be people who will deny this and continue on as before.

This allows me to segue into a theme of this blog, and there are several themes, and so this one---that the truth is a slippery thing--- that I want to explore for a moment.  What does that mean, that the truth is slippery?  It means several things, particularly in this culture right now.  There is an entire movement, called post modernism, that seems to deny that there is any truth at all.  Well, if there's no truth at all, why look for it at all?  The truth implies exclusion of all others, and we just can't have that in this culture today.  Hence, there has to be many truths, even though there can be only one truth.  The truth is slippery because you are being indoctrinated in denial of truth as a matter of principle, which is an oxymoron.  How can there be a principle, when there is no truth?  The devil really can cast himself out, and the kingdom divided against itself can really stand.  Only in a world in which the truth is slippery can there be any truth at all.  For there is only one truth.  It is hard to find and hard to hold.

The truth is indeed slippery, so finding it requires a lot of dedication and effort.  Without the incentive to find it, you won't bother to look for it.  If that happens throughout an entire civilization, it may well be in danger of collapse, as its supporting structures must include truth, or otherwise it cannot stand.  Its science must be based upon truth, not frauds like global warming.  Its system of justice must be based upon truth, not lies, like Ferguson that leads to cop-killings.  Its religion must be based upon truth, or it leads to communism or Islam.

Racism could be charged for writing that, but who gains from race these days?  The oppressed have become the oppressors, but this isn't new.  The good book says there is nothing new under the sun, and neither is this.  It is all quite predictable and true, if respect for the truth is what guides you.

So, the West is under siege, but the siege isn't from vast armies at its gates.  It is a spiritual siege from a society that has been ripped from its moorings and is adrift upon a stormy sea.  As Ann Barnhardt pointed out, this coincides with the Novus Ordo in the Catholic Church.  It also coincides with the abandonment of prayer in schools in 1963.  It coincides with the annulus horribus of 1968, in which Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated.  It also coincides with the high water mark of Western Civilization that occurred in 1968, when man first circled the moon in a spacecraft.  And it coincides with the high water mark of human prosperity mentioned above in the first paragraph.  All of this is a coincidence?  Does the Novus Ordo sound like a coincidence or a plan?

Our culture, our heritage and our freedom are being ripped from our very hands, yet there is nobody there to stop it.  Why?  We have been trained to be passive in the face of this aggression.  Since we have been trained to be this way, we will have to unlearn all of this that we have learned.  Because that which we have learned is not based in truth, so our training cannot do anything to help us, but the reverse.

A lot of bad stuff happened in 1968.  Can we recover from that, or are we doomed?  I'd like to be optimistic, but things don't look good right now.