By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
-Proverbs 16:25
The heart is deceitful above all things…
-Jeremiah 17:9
When small men cast big shadows, it means the sun is setting.
– Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher
Upon the recommendation of a blog commenter, I recently read “The Crisis of Modernity” by Italian professor and philosopher, Augusto Del Noce (1910 – 1989). The book was published in 2014 and is a brilliant compilation of twentieth-century essays and speeches by Del Noce. His philosophical insights are profound and his conclusions and societal predictions, especially regarding Scientism and the Technocracy, are eerily similar to those of English author and theologian C.S. Lewis – see my previous posts entitled “The Abolition of Man Amid the Consequences of Reality”, and “Gnostic Parasitism in the Post-Modern Simulacrum”, and “A Postmortem on Postmodernism”.
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