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<p>When considering how to improve modern day society many people gravitate toward political solutions. Others suggest that we need a sort of revolution of consciousness in which people move to a more enlightened state of being. But there is another path that could lead to social progress that is more practical than either politics or […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2026/03/why-the-western-worldview-limits-human-potential/">Why The Western Worldview Limits Human Potential</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>Some people allege that the politicians, bureaucrats and corporate elite that make up the ruling class are conspiring to enrich themselves, gain more power, and transform society into a totalitarian dystopia. From assassinations to false flags, cognitive warfare to the rigging of elections, engineered pandemics to manufactured economic and social crises, there is little they […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2026/03/what-if-the-crazy-ones-are-right-conspiracy-theories/">What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? – Conspiracy Theories</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“[Modern man] is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by powers beyond his control. The gods and demons have not disappeared at all, they have merely got new names.” Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 18 For millennia, in cultures spanning the globe, men and women believed in […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2026/02/carl-jung-are-demons-real/">Carl Jung – Are Demons Real?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The self-handicapper reaches out for impediments, exaggerates handicaps, and embraces any factor reducing personal responsibility for mediocrity…” Steven Berglas and Edward Jones, Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy Rather than simply contending with external obstacles to success, many of us actively collaborate in our own defeat. We are our own worst enemies and our inability […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2026/01/why-we-sabotage-ourselves-the-psychology-of-self-handicapping/">Why We Sabotage Ourselves – The Psychology of Self-Handicapping</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind The internet has connected the world, but it has also unleashed a torrent of hostility. The primary source of this hostility is the online hater. Hidden behind a screen and protected by anonymity, these individuals mock and insult creators, podcasters, online personalities, […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2026/01/psychology-of-online-haters-nietzsches-poisonous-flies/">The Psychology of Online Haters – Nietzsche’s “Poisonous Flies”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The difficulties of our psychotherapeutic work teach us to take truth, goodness, and beauty where we find them. They are not always found where we look for them: often they are hidden in the dirt or are in the keeping of the dragon.” Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 16 We all possess what Carl Jung […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/12/why-we-fear-our-highest-potential/">Why we Fear our Highest Potential – The Jonah Complex</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>The modern West is in decline. Economic stagnation, rising tax burdens, moral disorientation, political corruption, bloated bureaucracies, and soaring levels of poverty, drug addiction and homelessness, all point to a faltering civilization. While many agree that the West is faltering, explanations as to why vary; some blame the collapse of religion and the loss of […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/12/why-weak-people-create-hard-times-the-biological-decline-of-the-west/">Why Weak People Create Hard Times – The Biological Decline of the West</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Many are born; few live. Men without personality are innumerable and vegetate molded by their environment, like melted wax.” José Ingenieros, The Mediocre Man In the early-20th century, the Argentinian philosopher, physician, and essayist José Ingenieros wrote a book titled The Mediocre Man. In it he explores what distinguishes the mediocre masses from those who […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/12/escape-mediocrity-how-to-stop-wasting-your-life/">Escape Mediocrity – How to Stop Wasting your Life</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“…the fairy tale is the great mother of the novel, and has even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time. And you know that what has been on everyone’s lips for millennia, though repeated endlessly, still comes nearest to the ultimate human truth.” Carl Jung, Red Book Many people think of fairy tales […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/11/what-fairy-tales-teach-about-life/">The Psychology of Fairy Tales</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God According to Carl Jung the second half of life cannot be lived in the same manner as the first. “Whoever carries over into the afternoon the […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/11/carl-jung-how-life-changes-after-40/">Carl Jung – How Life Changes After 40</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man… This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are coming up…” Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra According to Carl Jung, the primary forces which shape history are not […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/10/modern-man-possessed-terrible-mother-archetype/">Is Modern Man Possessed by the Terrible Mother Archetype?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become…more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality In the late 19th century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that Western civilization was in a state of decline; it […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/09/how-to-make-the-west-great-again/">How to Make the West Great Again</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apocalyptic catastrophe caused by invasions, plagues, war, or natural disasters. But today, the greater danger may be a dark age of […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/09/is-this-how-the-west-ends/">Is This How the West Ends?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“We have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without?” John-Mark Miravalle, Beauty: What it is and Why it Matters In 2009 the late English philosopher Roger Scruton warned that “Beauty is vanishing from our world”, and that […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/08/why-the-lack-of-beauty-is-destroying-society/">Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franz’s primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths, fairy tales contains timeless wisdom that teaches us about the human condition. Jung believed that so much wisdom was contained in […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/07/carl-jung-and-the-most-important-rule-of-life/">Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Will men be able to give up toying with the idea of another war? It is now a question of existence or nonexistence. . .For the danger that threatens us now is of such dimensions as to make this last European catastrophe [i.e., World War II] seem like a curtain-raiser.” Carl Jung, Epilogue to “Essays […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/07/the-psychology-of-war/">The Psychology of War – Are We Doomed to Destroy Ourselves?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“And the word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.” Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly In the privacy of our minds many of us disagree with the ideologies, political agendas, and government mandates of our day, yet in public we comply. We […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/06/why-are-people-so-obedient-compliance-and-tyranny/">Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Conformity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging.” Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News Most people think that consuming the news makes one an informed citizen who is equipped to form intelligent opinions on social and political issues. In this video, drawing from the Swiss author […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/06/why-the-news-promotes-ignorance-and-mental-illness/">Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength, the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration and to recognize it as such.” Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics Carl Jung held a pessimistic view of the future of Western […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/05/carl-jungs-apocalyptic-vision/">Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p> “We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.” W.B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions Intuition is one of the most powerful faculties for gaining knowledge about the world. Along with reason, science, and imagination, it is one of the primary means by which we discover […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/05/how-to-cultivate-your-sixth-sense-the-power-of-intuition/">How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Hanlon’s Razor What is responsible for the sickness of modern society? Is it the evil machinations of the power hungry? Is it due to a conspiracy of the ruling class? In this video, relying on the Italian historian Carlo Cipolla’s essay The Basic […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/04/why-stupid-people-are-destroying-society-the-laws-of-human-stupidity/">Why Stupid People are Destroying Society – The Laws of Human Stupidity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique’s filing cabinet.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society In the mid-1950s the French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote a book titled The Technological Society. In sit he proposed that technology, or more broadly what […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/04/why-technology-is-enslaving-and-dehumanizing-us/">Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the mind/psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince society that people’s mental and behavioral problems are caused by their bodily chemicals.” Daniel R. Berger, The Chemical Imbalance Delusion An epidemic of mental […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/04/big-pharma-and-the-big-lie-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/">Big Pharma and the Big Lie – The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.” Leonardo Da Vinci Today many subscribe to hustle culture and believe that to be successful in business, a career, or a creative endeavor, it is necessary to work long hours, burn the midnight oil, and sacrifice leisure, rest, and sleep. But many who follow this […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/03/work-less-achieve-more-why-working-too-much-cripples-productivity/">Work Less, Achieve More – Why Working Too Much Cripples Productivity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” Marie-Louise von Franz To be a philosophical pessimist is to be acutely aware of the tragic side of life and to believe that suffering overshadows joy, […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/03/pessimism-of-strength-nietzsches-formula-for-greatness/">Pessimism of Strength – Nietzsche’s Formula for Greatness</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated: “The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won’t be men or monkeys. They’ll be machines—the remote descendants of today’s computers. Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons. But this will not be true in another generation. They will start to […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/02/darkside-of-ai-transhumanism-and-the-war-against-humanity/">The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p> “The Great Rewiring of Childhood, in which the phone-based childhood replaced the play-based childhood, is the major cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness.” Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation The release of the iPhone in 2007 profoundly transformed how we interact and experience the world and so marked the dawn of a […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/01/great-rewiring-of-childhood-smartphones-and-social-media/">The Great Rewiring of Childhood: A Smartphone-Social Media Dystopia</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims At the age of 21, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was browsing a bookstore […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2025/01/wisdom-of-a-pessimist-arthur-schopenhauer/">The Wisdom of a Pessimist – Arthur Schopenhauer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of history’s greatest novelists, but he is also one of history’s greatest psychologists. His stories contain depictions of characters who span the spectrum of human personality, from those of abject evil, to those saintly in nature. Friedrich Nietzsche was so impressed with the works of Dostoevsky that in a letter […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/12/fyodor-dostoevsky-the-wisdom-of-a-genius/">Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Wisdom of a Genius</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/12/should-we-obey-the-government/">Should We Obey The Government?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>One of the surest ways to ruin our life is to be in a close relationship with a narcissist. Whether it be a narcissist as a parent, husband, wife, colleague, or friend, if we are forced to deal with a narcissist on a daily basis we suffer. But even worse than having a narcissist in […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/11/the-psychology-of-narcissism-a-modern-epidemic/">The Psychology of Narcissism – A Modern Epidemic</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p> Many believe that the most important social divide in the West today is between the political left and right. Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle, and many believe that its outcome will have existential ramifications for the future of the West. But is this political conflict acting […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/10/why-is-modern-man-so-weak-and-powerless-carl-jung/">Why is Modern Man so Weak and Powerless? – Carl Jung</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“. . .when a living organism is cut off from its roots, it loses a connection with the foundation of its existence and must necessarily perish.” Carl Jung, Aion Carl Jung dedicated his life to a single goal, which as he notes in his autobiography, was to “penetrate into the secret of the personality.” […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/09/carl-jung-and-the-archetypes-making-the-unconscious-conscious/">Carl Jung and the Archetypes – Making the Unconscious Conscious</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all…Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say “yea” to it all.” Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/08/what-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-stronger/">What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>…totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it… bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Many people have amnesia regarding that fact that a mere few […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/07/social-distancing-why-they-want-you-isolated-and-alone/">Social Distancing – Why They want You Isolated and Alone</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“…in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” Silence Dogood, pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin, The New-England Courant, Number 49, 2-9 July 1722 Freedom of […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/07/censorship-and-the-death-of-freedom/">Free Speech, Censorship, and the Threat of Totalitarianism</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel’s Journal Depression is the darkest of human experiences. It saps our energy, weakens our will to work, destroys our desire to socialize, decreases our motivation to exercise, and sometimes even jeopardizes our […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/06/how-depression-facilitates-self-transformation/">How Depression Facilitates Self-Transformation</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>In the 1st century AD, the Greek orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote: “Luxury makes pains seem even harder, and dulls and weakens one’s pleasures. For the person who is always luxuriating and never touches pain will end up unable to endure any pain at all, and also not able to feel any pleasure, not […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/05/pursue-pain-not-pleasure-why-comfort-is-crippling-you/">Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“It seems to me that we face very grave crises indeed and that, if we are to survive, we need not just a few new measures, but a complete change of heart and mind.” Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World There seems to be […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/04/are-we-enslaved-to-one-side-of-the-brain-the-sickness-of-modern-man/">Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? – The Sickness of Modern Man</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . .It is in vain to Say that Democracy is … less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history. Those Passions are the same in all […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/03/why-democracy-leads-to-tyranny/">Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both…” Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols According to a 2010 study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, the health risks of chronic loneliness are equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. To mitigate […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/03/why-solitude-promotes-greatness-the-benefits-of-being-alone/">Why Solitude Promotes Greatness – The Benefits of Being Alone</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell, 1984 George Orwell’s writings have experienced a spike in popularity over the past several decades and for a good reason – modern societies are becoming ever more like the dystopia Orwell depicted in his […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/02/1984-vs-brave-new-world-how-freedom-dies/">1984 vs Brave New World – How Freedom Dies</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” Hippocrates Modern medicine has achieved remarkable results. Its ability to save people from ailments which a mere generation ago would have led to an untimely death, borders on the miraculous. But when it comes to chronic illness modern medicine has its limits. Sometimes the […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/02/spontaneous-recovery-the-bodys-power-to-heal-from-cancer-and-chronic-disease/">Spontaneous Recovery – The Body’s Power to Heal from Cancer and Chronic Disease</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/01/why-an-unhealthy-mind-creates-an-unhealthy-body/">Why an Unhealthy Mind creates an Unhealthy Body</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“. . .you must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine. When you know yourself, you will not puff yourself up like the frog who wanted to be the equal of the ox. . .” Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/01/why-lying-to-yourself-is-ruining-your-life/">Why Lying to Yourself is Ruining Your Life</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Since ultimately people heal themselves with or without the tool of psychotherapy, why is it that so few do and so many do not? Since the path of spiritual growth, albeit difficult, is open to all, why do so few choose to travel it? It was to this question that Christ was addressing himself when […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/12/how-to-escape-mediocrity-and-mental-illness-the-road-less-traveled/">How to Escape Mediocrity and Mental Illness – The Road Less Traveled</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“…more people look for salvation through relationship than in houses of worship. One may even suggest that romantic love has replaced institutional religion as the greatest motive power and influence in our lives…the search for love has replaced the search for God.” James Hollis, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other Half of […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/11/why-do-most-relationships-fail-the-myth-of-the-magical-other/">Why do Most Relationships Fail? – The Myth of the Magical Other</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia [in the 20th century]: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1983 Templeton Address Is secularization a sign […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/11/do-we-need-god-the-loss-of-god-and-the-decay-of-society/">Do we Need God? – The Loss of God and the Decay of Society</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.