Listened to Rob Long on the GLOP podcast and he makes a pretty keen unified theory of why things are the way they are:
“There was a period in the 20th century where there was great advancement, knowledge... We split the atom, flew jet planes, went to the moon, created the computer, etc...Concurrent with the great rise of knowledge was also this giant decline in religious faith and observance. Once you’ve decided we’ve come from apes...
On September 11, 2001, we entered the 'age of blunder' where very smart people who know things make colossal, colossal mistakes. It’s the Great Humbling. What was most humbling for America, Iraq or Vietnam? I don’t think Vietnam, which was a mistake, but a policy mistake that everyone knew going in. It was the Iraq War. We had a war based on satellite imagery which tells you everything you need to know, right, so we had to go in!
Covid. Enormous blunder of science, investigation, and public health officials. Huge world-wide blunder. We locked people in their houses, we did all sorts of crazy stuff based on ‘science’ and ‘knowledge’.
Vladimir Putin. The night before he invaded Ukraine he was thought of as a really smart guy: ‘I don’t like him, but he managed to to swing the 2016 election, etc....’ - all these things he didn’t do! - and then by the next morning, after the invasion, we have to wonder if he’s dumb. He really thought when he asked how many tanks he had that he had that many... he really thought he had all the information he needed to go into Ukraine.
All are huge mistakes of pride, arrogance, the feeling that you have all the details covered. And it’s the world, or God, coming back and saying, ‘No, you don’t understand. You know nothing. You know nothing.’ I hope we get out of this age soon but we’re in an age of enormously smart people making huge errors based on their own or their culture’s arrogance of how much you can know.
Take political polls. The anger when the polls are wrong is so bizarrely neurotic: ‘I’m angry that I didn’t know the future. I’m angry that tomorrow is a question mark, and that really makes me mad because I want to know.’ I think that’s a new feeling and a new era we’ve entered.”
I think that's spot on in part because the need to be in control, and to know the future, appears critical when you don't believe that God has control and knows the future.
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