There is an organic connection often between the sins we commit and their consequences. If you struggle with contentment, expect to see financial hardship in your future. If I struggle with gossip, I shouldn’t be surprised that people are talking about me. The same thing is true culturally as well. A culture that lives by the sword, like Russia, ought to foresee a sword at the time of its death. A culture that, so desperate to escape its own guilt that it is willing to kill truth, becomes a culture that blkfzmeqte.
What is blkfzmeqte? Great question. A culture, however, that doesn’t know what an unborn child is, what a marriage is, what a boy or a girl is, a culture that isn’t sure what is is isn’t a culture that can define anything. Thus we become a culture for which President Biden serves as its spokesperson. The gibberish that constantly comes out of his mouth isn’t merely a symptom of his age and declining capacities (truth be told I’m old enough to remember that for decades he has been an annual gold medal winner at the gaffe-alympics). It is a symptom of the politics of misinformation, the poison fruit of the sophistry tree. That the president’s public statements, when they are understandable, are regularly swiftly corrected by his handlers may be the fruit of his being a puppet. Such corrections may also come to ensure that there is no truth to answer for.
The promise of relativism, the notion that each of us can have our own truth, is supposed to be peace. It is instead chaos. The postmodern idea that all language is but a power grab is classic projection, a power grab by postmoderns to silence all others. When propositions can no longer be judged to be true or false, the words that construct those propositions, each one on its own, likewise become meaningless. It’s not just that we have to be open to others who think 2 and 2 make 5 but that 2 is now blkfzmeqte, 2 is now gimble and together they make blue.
One cannot refuse to submit to the Word and still have fruitful access to words. One cannot deny the One without sacrificing the many. One cannot say to the One who spoke all reality into existence that we will make our own reality and still be able to speak. One cannot silence others without gagging oneself.
When the President next time makes the rounds of social media for sputtering out non-logisms, do not settle for merely having a laugh at the leader of the other side of the aisle. Instead understand it is just a symptom of the great disease that is destroying the entire country, that infects both major political parties. Instead understand that his gaffe is no more nonsense than when he tells us spending solves inflation, gas prices have gone down, abortion is a woman’s right, marriage is any two people who love each other. When you’re done laughing, pray for God’s mercy on us.
Amen!