Loss of Language and Meaning

Most of the philosophy of the day is insipid and mediocre. It is shallow and unable to resolve conflict compared to the systems of thought that existed anciently. Past paradigms cannot be understood directly except one learns something of the language and context of their creation. Any serious attempt to study the ancient and classical languages of the past will result in an expansion of consciousness beyond the usual educated experience of the day.

Modern society has generated massive amount of information. It has failed utterly to resolve information into any meaningful system of understanding or practical application. It has little ability to do so. Why is that so? The present use of language has degenerated to the point that no amount of information will overcome loss of coherent and intrinsic consistency and ability for our language to convey and share the real meaning of things.

The influence of scientific speculation upon philosophical interpretation, unwed to metaphysical understanding, has resulted in extreme philosophical debasement. The upside is that the study of quantum physics and sub particles leave men no choice now but to acknowledge an empirical world of metaphysics. A more direct access to the metaphysical world was back then, as it is now, the basis of an enlightened and expanded philosophy.

The endless arguments will continue endlessly unresolved. People no longer communicate clearly their meaning but in an ever more limited manner amongst smaller and smaller circles. The ideological communities are drifting further apart. Specialized languages are being created to convey very limited meaning understood by fewer and fewer. The fractured structure of shared thought continues to crumble.

The historically recent outbreak of technology has deluded society into as state self absorption that allows the entirely fallacious belief that our society has somehow evolved to a higher state of civilization. Science, which can only measure reality superficially, is then interpreted through the modern system of meaning and interpretation which in itself has become relatively superficial. Logic and concepts are limited by the symbols and language upon which it proceeds. In other words, advancement has mistakenly come to be measured in terms of materialistic proliferation rather than spiritual attainment.

It is presumed that former cultures were insufficiently advanced to achieve what modern industrialization and technology has accomplished. This is ass backwards. Ancient cultures were in harmony with the forces of nature and spirit. They were stable and consistent sufficiently that men would not easily transcend the boundaries that kept them from the perversion that modern society has created. It was after generations of corruption of thought and meaning that the mind of society could bring itself to the mindless decisions that have resulted in the profound loss of cultural refinement and violation of the harmonious power of "heaven and earth". True culture and civilization can only be measured in terms of the potential of the language and cultural forms that bring spiritual awakening and expansion of consciousness.

What has modern society accomplished?

• Scientific method measures reality relatively superficially

• The arts are a very limited and superficial portal to the world of abstraction compared to ancient arts and disciplines

• Industrialization has resulted in the largest theft scheme ever concocted in the history of the world.

• Technology has produced tools of destruction, a form of media that dulls the senses, and a materialistic preoccupation that has produced mediocrity unrivaled in any former society.

• Education fills the mind by rote with information, no real understanding or superior thought capability. Higher learning consists of specialized and privatized thought that allows ignorance to hide behind sophistication.

• Architecture that accommodates the sensual needs of the body but leaves the soul to wander restlessly the haunts of prison-like infrastructures.

• A government that dictates morality, which presumes itself to be God, while projecting its ultimate presumption on the less totalitarian abuses of past societies.

• A society of hypnotized economic slaves who have through emasculation lost the ability for true self government, individually and communally.

• The beat goes on

As modern society continues to collapse, and that it will, the rebuilding of society will consist in a return to the ancient meanings that modern society has largely lost its awareness of. There is nothing new under the sun and that which is ancient is also far less perishable.