https://forum.paganpathway.org/topic/73/mmmm-materialism-modernity-metaphysics-and-more-warning-rantWealhwine Feb 22, 2018, 11:07 PM
So I've been told this is a fairly Indo-European rant I made on a Discord server so I'm preserving it here. Critique my autism if you'd like.
The principle issue of modernity is the over-emphasis, almost entire emphasis in fact, on pure materialism and earthly existence, and "perfecting" such an existence in order to eliminate struggle and conflict - such a view is both Utopian and hedonistic in nature. The non-physical world, both spiritual and metaphysical, has been completely disregarded and abandoned for "freedom" or for the sake of "rationality" which has gotten us nowhere, save for giving us more and more frivolous questions and more and more degenerate and hedonistic behaviour. "Science" and "reason" have gone so far as to label "spiritual" individuals or those individuals who are able to see the metaphysical around them as "crazy" or "insane" (likely because of intense Christian church interference and attacks against science and reason, but that's another topic for another day). The original goals of science and reason - to examine, explain, and find a solution to problems have been forfeited in favour of unlimited atheism, with individuals foolishly believing they can rationally figure out everything, unable to comprehend the fact that we live in an irrational reality. It is entirely rational to say that there are irrational things out there that cannot be rationally or scientifically explained, and the metaphysical and spiritual are certainly such things - exposure to and exploration of such things is quintessential for a healthy teutā [tribe/whole]*, and to do such actions effectively requires use of a natural hierarchy and aristocracy, as has been established for time immemorial (until recent centuries, that is). Labeling spiritually or metaphysical enlightened people as "crazy" or "insane" is usually the first sign that one is a materialistic, modernistic plebeian, incapable of comprehending or conceptualising such intricate philosophies and concepts, and thus why historically such tasks were regulated to the upper classes of the hierarchy.
*http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/roots.aspx?type=Indo-European&root=teutā-
