re: #442 Justanotherhuman

I keep harping on this idea of worldview collapse.

In regards to this election (and the 2010 election), I believe we are seeing an emotional response to modernity.

By “modernity” I mean the full-monty of the post-industrial, post-Marx age: No God, No Baby Jesus, No Races (biologically, they’re just cultural conventions), Money is abstract (and certainly not gold), Humans are just apes who live in hierarchical tribes and not magical beings, Morality is not absolute … etc.

These are things which scare Americans.

These are things identified with the intellectual elite, of whom Barack Obama is one.

Maybe I’m a one track tape, and this is why I so often come back to creationism. But I really do believe our big-picture cultural issue is worldview collapse, and that those of us who are at least accepting (even if not over-joyed) with the new reality are finding it harder to communicate to those who are rejecting the new reality.

Go to a Joni Ernst rally and try to convince them that they are not special little angels of God but rather animals composed of a few trillions of cells, each one descended from ancient bacteria, and that life is a complex chemical process powered by the nuclear fusion of our local star, and not by some magical spirit imbued at the time of conception.

See how far you will get.