{"id":1080,"date":"2023-12-20T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/rod-dreher-on-bergoglios-latest-termitic-outrage\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:05:07","slug":"rod-dreher-on-bergoglios-latest-termitic-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/rod-dreher-on-bergoglios-latest-termitic-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher on Bergoglio’s Latest Termitic Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decline and fall is the way of the world. It's our turn now as institution after institution is captured by wokeassery and termitry. Sodomy in the Senate and among prelates. The presidency of a 'wokified' but unqualified plagiarist at Harvard. The huge numbers of destructive leftists and their usefully idiotic fellow travellers who support a demented traitor in plain dereliction of duty for POTUS.  And that just for a start. Is consolation to be had? Well, the religionist can look beyond the passing scene, and the philosopher can take comfort in the thought that the owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is Hegel in the penultimate paragraph of the preface to  The Philosophy of Right<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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When philosophy paints its grey on grey, then has a shape of life grown old.  By philosophy's grey on grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood.  The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only at the falling of the dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Daughter of Jupiter, Minerva in the mythology of the Greeks is the goddess of wisdom.  And the nocturnal owl is one of its ancient symbols.  The meaning of the Hegelian trope is that understanding, insight, and wisdom arise when the object to be understood has played itself out, when it has actualized and thus exhausted its potentialities, and now faces only decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a shape of life has grown old, philosophy paints its grey on grey.  The allusion is to Goethe's Faust<\/em> wherein Mephisto says<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, <\/em><\/span>
Und gr\u00fcn des Lebens goldner Baum.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Grey, dear friend, is all theory<\/span>
And green the golden tree of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dreher's piece<\/a> is long but good. I've been called a writing machine but I can't hold a candle to Dreher in terms of sheer output. There is one thing I can't stomach about him, though: his mindless anti-Trumpery. But we all have our follies, fatuities, failings, and blind spots. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decline and fall is the way of the world. It's our turn now as institution after institution is captured by wokeassery and termitry. Sodomy in the Senate and among prelates. The presidency of a 'wokified' but unqualified plagiarist at Harvard. The huge numbers of destructive leftists and their usefully idiotic fellow travellers who support a … Continue reading “Rod Dreher on Bergoglio’s Latest Termitic Outrage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}