just hearing so many baby boomer songs on the radio... small repetitious play list in a sense...
hearing FLASHDANCE again and "I can have it all" made me think of Frances Schaeffer and his book HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE... with them emphasis on its subtitle:
The Decline of Western Thought and Culture...
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which also makes me think of CS Lewis...
I'll insert and interesting aside:
Lewis was initially schooled by private tutors before being sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1908, just after his mother's death from cancer. Lewis's brother had already enrolled there three years previously. The school was closed not long afterwards due to a lack of pupils — the headmaster Robert "Oldie" Capron was soon after committed to an insane asylum. Tellingly, in Surprised By Joy, Lewis would later nickname the school "Belsen". There is some speculation by biographer Alan Jacobs that the atmosphere at Wynyard greatly traumatized Lewis and was responsible for the development of "mildly sadomasochistic fantasies".
In September 1913, Lewis enrolled at Malvern College, where he would remain until the following June. It was during this time that 15-year-old Lewis abandoned his childhood Christian faith and became an atheist, becoming interested in mythology and the occult. (Interestingly enough, none other than the famed British "diabolist" Aleister Crowley ["the Great Beast 666"] had attended—and despised—the same institution some 22 years earlier.) Later he would describe "Wyvern" (as he styled the school in his autobiography) as so singularly focused on increasing one's social status that he came to see the homosexual relationships between older and younger pupils as "the one oasis (though green only with weeds and moist only with fetid water) in the burning desert of competitive ambition. […] A perversion was the only thing left through which something spontaneous and uncalculated could creep."
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My point is how man tries to express a Utopian vision... and I think both Schaeffer and Lewis don't know how to deal the fact concerning GOD, namely, "He is not there, and He is silent".
They can't seem to come to Utopian grips that both the universe and values are the result of ORDER OUT OF CHAOS...
Makes me think the most basic and unknown principle of the universe, life and thought is the ENTROPY LAW...
Not understanding what the creation of order entails, it is much simpler to postulate a DEVIL and concepts of EVIL and SIN...
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Religion isn't just simpler, it is a human need. Life requires three things: something to do, something(one) to love and something to hope for.
Religion and religious ideas of utopia are a result of the human need for hope.
Schaeffer and Lewis hope for perfection outside rather than inside man. Kind of pessimistic on mankind in a way.
Guess they are also pessimistic on progress and evolution. Altho wouldn't you rather be living today. Isn't the "Golden Age" another myth?
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