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Entry: Darwin, Alone, Is Not Enough Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/darwin_alone_is_not_enough#25444 Post contents: This is a little too nice to everybody, and goes along with the general program of today, which is an unwillingness to make any real sacrifices, take any real stands, or make the prolonged effort (more than 20 years, and that on top of an excellent liberal education) it takes to spiritualize the intelligence and gain a comprehensive understanding of why things are the way they are. Darwinism – pace Barfield – might be true if it were read as the evolution of consciousness (and NOT the “evolution of phenomena”) but how many people have even heard of Barfield? (Saving the Appearances, 1965 – termed by John Lukacs “one of the most important books published in the 20th century) Whatever original scientific interest Darwin’s insights may have had, they have long been swallowed up in the program for human degeneration promoted by his followers. Consequent upon this degeneration are all the perks, prestige and entitlements of the self-described Intellectuals, along with the implicit commandment to complacency and stupefaction. After all, we are just animals, so what would be the purpose of insisting on Quality in life, art, politics, relationships, or culture? It’s all a joke and delusion. Why strive for excellence, truth, or wisdom? Why struggle to maintain laws and constraints against this same class of entitled know-it-alls? In fact, why even bother with civilization, since “evolution” has become the new determinist program, far eclipsing even astrology. Thus has Darwinism has become the new program for the enslavement of humanity, promoted implicitly and explicitly by the New World Order and its acolytes. The idea that reaffirms “human nature” is a bitter joke. From an alienated modernism (alienated against Nature, those who believe that human beings are infinitely malleable) the opposite extreme is to flee to Darwinism. But here the price demanded is alienation from spirit, understanding, Quality, excellence, etc. The fact ism this writer has done no serious thinking on the subject. Americans are so educationally and spiritually impoverished that the same issues come up like an endless wheel – eternal Return, eternal Darwinism, eternal mediocrity. Wake up and smell the coffee, folks! At least start reading people who really gave this issue some substantive thought (Owen Barfield, Robert Pirsig, etc.) instead of people who just repeat the same old things. Sent at: 2008 07 06