Modern man laughs at the sheep-like, order-following Medieval man.  He ridicules that man and his superstitious life.  But we ought to look around.  Other than the fact the State has overtaken the Church as the wielder of “Truth,” little has changed.

Actually, it’s worse.  When the church issued the edicts, there was always an outside source of truth that could be appealed to – the Bible – that the church acknowledged as authoritative.  Today, all truth is considered subsumed by the State.  Even though it is seated on a pedestal by modern man, science’s authoritative voice is the practitioner with the highest standing in the State’s bureaucracy.  Justice, too, no longer has a meaning beyond what the State says.  Reality, and therefore truth, is simply the narrative the State weaves.

For the person who sees the nakedness of the Emperor, there is no anchorage remaining for dissent.  Pity modern man!

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