If you want to distill modern man, it reduces to an incesant desire to be placed in a position where you may convincingly bleat:<\/p>\n

It’s Not My Fault.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We saw it in Detroit.\u00a0 Everyone saw the problem a decade prior to the collapse.\u00a0 But government let it grow so that when it finally collapsed, turned over to a bankruptcy board, the government could bleat, “What were we supposed to do?\u00a0 It was such a big problem.”\u00a0 Your boss ever stab you in the back and blame you?\u00a0 Another example, it is a common though strange phenomenon that as a contractor if you don’t charge enough, you won’t win a contract.\u00a0 That is because management wants to be able to go to the Board if things go south and say, “It wasn’t our fault.\u00a0 We hired the best of the best.”.\u00a0 Another example?\u00a0 Russiagate.\u00a0 At this level, how do you fight it in your personal life?<\/p>\n

It’s my fault.\u00a0 Things are screwed up, it’s your fault.\u00a0 We have a modern way of saying this, “Own It.”<\/p>\n

We can abstract this 2 levels.\u00a0 The first level is this, Non Servium.\u00a0 The highest angel will be beneath Created Flesh in Jesus Christ?\u00a0 Beneath the Virgin Mary?\u00a0 He will not serve under these conditions,\u00a0 It’s not his fault.\u00a0 Our response?\u00a0 Servium.\u00a0 I WILL serve the Lord.<\/p>\n

And the ultimate level, God is Evil.\u00a0 The spiritual beings, pure spirit, are higher than man.\u00a0 Therefore God is disordered and evil by proclaiming the Incarnation (a kernel that shows up in my most detested heretics, the neo-Jansenists).\u00a0 Our response?\u00a0 Life is Great, the Truth is always Beautiful, and God is the Form of the Good.\u00a0 We live to love the Lord Who is Love itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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