photog’s Republic – Part 2 – Orion's Cold Fire

So here I am playing Plato in drawing up my Republic. I have no philosopher kings. All I have is the experience of where our country went wrong.

The first order of business is analyzing this calamity.

The current theories about why everything fell apart can be broken up into a few schools of thought. The most extreme diagnosis is that the Enlightenment is the source of our problem. The idea is that changing the focus of human thought from God to the individual is the root of all the problems we are experiencing. Now I don’t want to go through all of this theory but basically, it’s saying that eliminating God from the human world eventually leads to pathological selfishness that destroys human society.