- 19 Jul 2011 01:46
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What I mean by paganism is that hedonism and decadence aren't modern inventions, but the space where upon the sky religions and steppes-cultures derive their own identities and organization, which is the basis of Western civilization (Judeo-Christianity). Christianity itself appropriated massive amounts of paganism and the early Christian mystics and esotericists were thoroughly decadent in that respect. Sky religion and civilization gives birth to law and order, earth-religion and paganism gives birth to adaptive value systems that operate much more independently (virtues). In my own opinion, this constitutes a continuous, sustainable and productive relationship, an incredibly important dialectic, not a dichotomy. How can anyone truly fault the excesses of the 1960s/1970s when it, for example, has taught us to treat the blight of child abuse with important consideration? There is no boogeyman that is hedonism or decadence in my opinion, but simply the seemingly timeless relationship between the Judeo-Christian and the pagan, the high culture and the low culture, the steppes-culture and the marsh-culture, and so on. When either of these attempt to destroy the other, the adventure is bound to certain failure.
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