It is striking to read thoughtful cultural commentators from the 1950s-70s, who are confident that The System – based on materialism and motivated by Leftism – will certainly collapse due to its incoherence and contradictions.
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Of course, The System did not collapse – but instead expanded in power and scope; and has now taken-over the world. Yet The System is indeed incoherent and self-contradictory – so how was this survival possible? . . .
The short answer is that The System captured the procedures and dissemination of evaluation: it captured the ‘knowledge-making’ processes. Therefore, The System now conceals from itself its own incoherence – and its own colossal failures.
-thus Bruce Charlton
The scriptures tell us a few things about knowing that a collapse is about to happen.
There will be signs of the times.
People will continue marrying and giving in marriage (in other words, life will go on, routines will keep happening, normalcy bias)
If it were possible, even the very elect could be deceived.
I believe that the median response from decent people when the collapse happens will be surprise but also a feeling that they should have seen it coming.
