"When did this civilization damn itself? Please give me the clue."

 Friends,

That was a question posed to me in the Comments section of Steve Kirsch substack article. I answered the following:

Good question. A "short" answer:

It's a chain of causation that goes back to the Reformation. One element was René Descartes' idea that we are machines, and the human soul is but a "ghost in the machine." You can see the result of that in modern medicine: it treats us primarily like machines, rather than souls. "Dr House" was a good example in popular culture of a physician who proceeded on those grounds.

But a BIG link in that chain was Darwin and the whole theory of Darwinism beyond the bounds of Darwin himself. Once it became generally accepted that humans were just clever apes, with some human tribes smarter than others (whites smarter than browns, browns smarter than blacks) we were linked into the primate series (chimps smarter than gorillas, etc.). This in turn acted like a corrosive slowly but steadily making the argument that we're just animals that needed treated like animals. See the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male for how the big shots applied Darwinian thinking. Or the history of the Nazis.

Then look at Marx and economic determinism, the latter of which, in a capitalistic form, motivates Big Gov/Big Pharma/Big Med today. G.K. Chesterton said economic determinism was like saying, "Because I have feet, I only walk around on them to find shoes for them." That's a perfect description of what the Powers-That-Be think of us and the way they've tried to educate us to be for a century. John Dewey played a huge role in educating us into being that type of being. Look him up (1859-1952), lauded by the cultural destroyers and loathed by those of us who know his role in "uneducating" us entirely.

I hope some get to see this one, and think about it a bit.

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.