THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
This book caught my attention after James Morrow, this week’s Outsiders anchor, talked about reading Douglas Murray’s book, illustrated above, on the aircraft flight he recently took back from New York.
Douglas Kear Murray is a British conservative political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was Associate Director from 2011-18. He is also an associate editor of the British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.
In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray sets out to explain why human societies are now so characterised by conflict. “In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes.”
Murray focuses on the lack of forgiveness as a major cause of the malevolence of the modern world.
Given that most of the civil rights campaigns have been won, one would expect people to be more tolerant, but, ironically, this is not the case.
Recently a young girl’s life was effectively “cancelled” in America because she wore the ‘wrong’ Prom Dress. It had a Chinese theme (which did not upset the Chinese) but angered her social media friends.
The new “metaphysics” – as Murray entitles this madness – “seems to have a Marxist flavour. It is a religion which has no Salvation or Forgiveness.”
Funny that! , This monkey was reading The Lord’s Prayer only this morning. The words “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them, who trespass against us” dominate this Prayer. The Way of Forgiveness is the only hope for Humanity.
The Lord knows what is right for everyone, including Chimps. I reckon I’m staying put until you all get over this insane, irrational, unforgiving “woke” way of thinking and behaving.
In the meantime I shall buy Murray’s book so that I can understand a little more of this insanity.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Not-Woke, but Thinking Chimp
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When you wrote that a couple of the characteristics of the dangerous Marxist religion are “no Salvation or Forgiveness”, I was reminded of the list of behaviours/ attitudes the New Testament identifies as being signs of the End Times…the end of this Age of Grace. I deliberately say the Age of Grace, as that incorporates the spirit of love and forgiveness offered by Christ’s Cross to all of us across the twenty centuries. But the prevailing spirit now, in western culture anyway, is increasingly aggressive and intolerant…the very antithesis of Christ’s way. Here is the list of ungodly behaviors and attitudes expected in these Last Days:
2 Timothy 3 starts…” You can be certain that in the last days there will be some very hard times. People will love only themselves and money. They will be proud, stuck-up, rude, and disobedient to their parents. They will also be ungrateful, godless, heartless, and hateful. Their words will be cruel, and they will have no self-control or pity. These people will hate everything that is good. They will be sneaky, reckless, and puffed up with pride. Instead of loving God, they will love pleasure. Even though they will make a show of being religious, their religion won’t be real.”
I agree Paul, this monkey thinks it is so obvious, that I am amazed the Churches are not shouting it from the rooftops. It takes a lapsed “christian” journalist to pinpoint this problem. Really, Paul, I am better off staying in here, our keepers care about us and do not go overboard trying to change out genders….Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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