That's the nut: "the source of order is implicit traditionalism and orientation toward transcendent realities."
We could make a prediction. As implicit traditionalism and orientation toward transcendence evaporates from a society, the greater the disorder within that society, and that disorder can and does assume many forms.
Or, we could say conversely (as Plato did), as the number increases of spiritually disordered individuals that populate a political body, the more disordered that body will become (at some point, presumably, if the increase continues unabated, a critical mass will be reached and the political society will disintegrate).
And a final question: Does it require a spiritually disordered population to sustain a leadership that represents or actually promotes an abandonment of implicit traditionalism and orientation towards transcendent realities? I'm thinking, when I formulate that question, of the EU.
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That's the nut: "the source of order is implicit traditionalism and orientation toward transcendent realities."
We could make a prediction. As implicit traditionalism and orientation toward transcendence evaporates from a society, the greater the disorder within that society, and that disorder can and does assume many forms.
Or, we could say conversely (as Plato did), as the number increases of spiritually disordered individuals that populate a political body, the more disordered that body will become (at some point, presumably, if the increase continues unabated, a critical mass will be reached and the political society will disintegrate).
And a final question: Does it require a spiritually disordered population to sustain a leadership that represents or actually promotes an abandonment of implicit traditionalism and orientation towards transcendent realities? I'm thinking, when I formulate that question, of the EU.