Seeking a New Unifying Concept
(Another great and thought-provoking read from Reckonin’. This time by Caryl Johnston – DD)
A unifying concept is like a life-jacket thrown to a drowning man. We are familiar with the image of the drowning man. It is perhaps the hidden underlying theme, a melody playing softly and almost inaudibly beneath the clamor of events…. until the conductor is obliged to put down his baton. No more … the music is done. Such is the dark or underside of history—the sinking ship, the shipwreck. So what happens next? The masterful Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset said it best: “I am only interested in the thoughts of shipwrecked men.” But why would you listen to the shipwrecked for a new song?
Perhaps it is only the true master of philosophy who understands that when the termites of reason have eaten away at man’s home – his history – it is time to seek a regenerative force. A new song. For what are we? We are parasites – or rather, we have allowed our reason to degenerate into parasitism. Do we know it? Did we see it happening? In the Creation story God dignified Unfallen Man with the gift of Dominion. But … then there was the Fall. But we kept the dominion idea even though it would have been more honest to acknowledge that the Fall had nullified or revoked it. How easily did we slide from stewardship into…
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