Spengler at Asia Times writes:
Enlightened secular culture
tells us that the brain is a machine, albeit a
very sophisticated one, that ultimately will be
decoded by the neuroscientists; that sin and
salvation were sad imaginings of our ignorant
ancestors; that the soul is an illusion of
flickering neural impulses; that human life has
nothing more to offer than fleshly satisfaction
combined with a random sense of idiosyncratic
spirituality; that our choices of lifestyle are
ultimately arbitrary, such that every culture,
quirk, and sexual subculture has equal rights to
social esteem; that there is nothing sacred to
human sexuality, such that we may enjoy our
partner's bodies the that the only truth is that
there is no truth; and that we are all one our own
to seek whatever meaning we might eke out of the
chaos.
That is a
prescription for despair, and to counteract the
effects of postmodern despair we consume vast
amounts antidepressants, tranquilizers and
narcotics. Eleven percent of Americans take
antidepressants, the most-prescribed drug in the
US.
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