Rocked by debt and greed, the Western world as we
know it is slowly but surely disintegrating. There is a rising sense, a vibrant
pulse if you will that fraud and betrayal are leaving us without direction and
hope. Austerity plans are put in place, interest rates are cut, and more money
is printed, though little really changes. But where to turn in the midst of the
tailspin remains a significant question. Facing large scale and personal,
moral, and economic meltdowns, the viable options seem slim, yet we try this
and do a bit of that to no avail, or embrace various forms of fundamentalism,
which collapse under the weight of fanaticism. Both relativism and absolutism,
for example, strip us of reality. To be real-ly hopeful, I’d wager, is at least
to move away from self-centeredness and to admit of having a need for a
credible other worldly perspective that can be integrated with our own, yet not
consumed by it.
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