[mojito]

The always interesting Spengler.

[ModelBreaker]

What an elegant writer the author is.

[livius]

Third, pederasty has become a plague in parts of the West, and widespread abuse of children has occasioned a crisis in the Catholic Church. It is hard to avoid the impression that sexual misbehavior is associated with a retreat from faith in a personal God, namely the Jesus who lived on earth and was crucified and was resurrected, in favor of a mushy and unspecific spirituality - something like Sufism, in fact. Perhaps the same link between spiritual and sexual narcissism is at work in the West.

This is a particularly complex and interesting article by Spengler. It's well worth reading.

[Mercat]

Interesting. We used to call that narcisism meditating on your navel or your “ennymeeny.”

[tnlibertarian]

I thought this was going to be an article about the Democrat Convention.

[khnyny]

From the article: As the psychiatrists explain, pederasty is an expression of narcissism, the love of an idealized youthful self-image.

There you have it! Lol.

[decimon]

Boy-oh-boy, does he go on about this.

[DeweyCA]

FTA: Sufism enjoys a faddish ripple of interest in America, where self-admiration is the national pastime. As opposed to the Biblical God, the cosmos is an unthreatening thing to worship. The universe, after all, is no one in particular, and those who seek to merge their consciousness with no one in particular at the end are left alone with themselves. Worship the cosmos, and you worship yours truly; worship yourself, and it is not unusual to adore your own idealized image.

This reminds me of many hard-core environmentalists. They don't worship the biblical God, and so they don't have the ambition or purpose of serving Him. To try to make their lives seem meaningful, they instead try to save the earth and create a heaven on earth. They, in essence, get to play God. Fits in well with much New-Age thought.

[JmyBryan]

Dissolution of the ego is not exactly a playground for narcissists.

[caveat emptor]

No thanks.

[redgolum]

for later.

[Dajjal]

Spengler bump

[Ciexyz]

Omar Sharif plays a French Muslim in the recent French film Monsieur Ibrahim, where they show a scene of Sufi men dancing in ecstasy in a mosque.

[LomanBill]

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