"Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen’s eye.
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us."
Thomas Nashe, A Litany In Time of Plague
"He prompts you what to say, and then listens to you, and praises you, and encourages you. He bids you mount aloft. He shows you how to become as gods. Then he laughs and jokes with you, and gets intimate with you; he takes your hand, and gets his fingers between yours, and grasps them, and then you are his."
J.H.Newman, The Times of Antichrist
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
They can't see the problem, or they will not allow themselves see the problem, or admit that they have seen it.
They love their pride and their paychecks, more than the truth, and His commandments to love and to serve.
Nothing becomes too vile, too dreadful, or too awful for them, in the end.
And that is the credibility trap.
Do not join them, no matter how attractive or rewarding or fashionable it may seem.
It is to embrace the unspeakable; it is more obscene than you can imagine— it is a dalliance with the abyss.
Thank you for remembering me in your prayers.
Have a pleasant evening.
