Inquisition

 

Post-Impressionism / Vincent van Gogh/ Landscape with House and Ploughman

Got rest from the late shift on Tuesday, feeling better overall.  I am no longer the young man who worked the graveyard shift at the SLC Detox and then put on my running shoes to run up to the U. for a shower and my classes.  Graveyard wipes me out and it takes a day to get back to being human. 

Been pondering a comment from yesterday’s post.   (Hat Tip to CheFXH)

The idea that the scientific establishment could possibly be as rotten as the Curia has shaken me. But then again, everything seems to be corrupt nowadays; I can't think of an institution in which I longer have any sort of faith.

To read this comment and to think about the processes that our society has been going through for the last couple of years, I think that one needs to sit down and look at the nature of any society.  Not the specific characteristics of ours, but the structure and purpose of the rather vague concept of “society” itself.

I am coming to the conclusion that the greatest myth of our current society is that the society is in place to support the dreams and the visions of the individuals whose aggregate make up the polis.  Not meaning to be blunt, but I have been searching around a lot lately and I can find no evidence that this was ever the case. 

I tend to believe in God(s), maybe this is irrational, but there you go.  I can’t say that I am of any particular faith, but I have a hunch that there is something out there, out of the realm of the observed.  I tend to agree with Terry Pratchett

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Additional Reading

THE GRAND INQUISITOR

By

Feodor Dostoevsky

(Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)