The Enlightenment

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Ranger One wrote:

Wizard’s Pupil wrote:

. Only after the collapse can we begin laying the foundations for the new Enlightenment.

Short-term and temporary gains at best. If there is a new Enlightenment, another collapse will follow that.
I think the Technomages in Babylon 5 had the right idea for when darkness shows up. Run.

Yeah its a matter of cycles. As the late great Maggi T used to say “You can’t buck the market” (For a woman she was smart). The individual can’t control the stage of the cycle he is born into. He must just do his best with the conditions he is living in. Wise men see past the contemporary background to the truth of things. To use the platonic analogy -they see the forms when other men see the shadows.

Gentlemen, we have been dealt a bad hand. The light of reason is going down the crapper and we are the ones who stand on the edge of a dark age. The educational institutions have never been stronger, yet their product has never been so poor, so watered down and so contaminated. The market for education it at its peak. Education is not really worth anything any more but everyone is selling it and everyone is buying it frantically. It offers a man very few benefits and comes with considerable costs and risk. Wisdom and truth are all that count now. We are indeed back to an age where truth and wisdom are passed between wizards and their apprentices. The institutions are broken, rotten and ready for collapse. They cannot be trusted not because there is some great scheme or conspiracy afoot but simply because they are rotten and decadent. Individuals and their friends are what matter now.

It has given me great joy to talk to you gentlemen on line. Many of you get what is happening. There are some wizards here.

A woman is like fire -fun to play with, can warm you through and cook your food, needs constant feeding, can burn you and consume all you own

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