It’s really a mystery and a damnable shame otherwise sensible people miss such fundamental things that they opt to make govt their God.
My whole Patton thing was meant tongue-in-cheek, but it’s nutz a guy from that era still clings to the political skeleton of the Reich.
I had a colleague who absolutely firmly believed that a dollar bill in the hand of a bum was somehow worth far less than if I took that exact dollar bill and handed it to Warren Buffet. The notion that a dollar, is a dollar, is a dollar — he would NOT hear it. To capitulate would be to yield on graduated taxation, and that would be to desecrate the shrine of his politics.
This sort of thing has always struck me as a type of “those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth.”
But then you go read the end of the story and you see this “hole” open up in the sky, like some special effect from a Marvel film, and this fiery guy in blood-soaked robes comes charging down at the head of an innumerable host of cavalry...
All that mind-bending reality and what’s the response??
A crock of WEF militarists think they’re gonna take this guy down with missiles and fighter jets; maybe plink away at him with tanks and SPG’s. Like, “HELLO!?! McFly!! That guy just came right outta the sky like in a movie about aliens from a whole ‘nother dimension, and you propose to shoot him with...what?!?! And you expect to win??”
There’s just a level of stupid that humans are capable of that is incomprehensible.
“those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth.”
That is it in a nutshell.
Pilate asked “what is Truth?” He didn’t ask what is the truth in this particular case? With multiple gods, the notion of a singular truth lacks a firm foundation. It was a foreign Judeo-Christian concept that somehow resonated with Pilate.
Marxism is atheistic, so Marxists sometimes speak of bourgeois truth vs. proletarian truth, etc. The idea of multiple truths also undercuts belief in Truth.
The view from our elites is probably “the truth is whatever we say it is.”