![]() It stems from being obsessively aware of our feelings and sensations, even being sensual, but being ultimately senseless where truth, goodness, and beauty are concerned. But the kind of Recession we are in, easily enough transformed into a full-blown Depression, is chiefly spiritual. This is what it means that we are in a Recession. Thus our food does not feed, our cures do not cure, and our blessings refuse to bless. ![]() ![]() Many - particularly Christians in America - have grown pessimistic, weary in doing good, dogmatically insistent on going with the flow because they are tired of the good. Wells - and 'The Outline of History.'Īnd indeed, his was a prescient description of where we are now. At a minimum, though, it is his response to a principle antagonist of his - H.G. Chesterton in one among many poignant observations in 'The Everlasting Man.' Some say this is his magnum opus. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.” ![]() Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. “Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. ![]()
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