There is no eternal system, only eternal faith. Aquinas is indeed great. In the 13th century, he predicted that today’s United States would slip from democracy to tyranny
In my book “the course of western civilization(essence version)”“buy the book”, I often publicize the view: that if human society loses faith and becomes a purely secular society, human nature is free of any restriction and can be freely vented nakedly, the whole society will be a jungle society of crazy madness, and competition, by all means; people try every trick in the book, by hook or by crook. Everyone in society, the high level, the middle class, or the lowest level, such as cleaners, will break their neck to expand their power and abuse it for their interests. Anyone at any level tends to monopolize power and dictatorship. No matter how refined and perfect the system of checks and balances is, it will be of no effect. No system can restrain the greed and degeneration of human nature, and the whole society will eventually lead to the worst results, such as dictatorship, oligarchy, majority tyranny, suppression of press freedom, A minority race being superior to other races, and so on. The whole society is like the patients in the late stage of AIDS. Due to the complete destruction of the immune system, they may catch any malignant disease at any time, even malignant disease that has never appeared before. Anyway, any malignant disease can be perfectly displayed. The actual result of society is that whoever is more vicious will gain power, and whoever is viler will gain profits. The whole society is a kind of Adverse Selection. The more evil people are, the more likely they live at the top of society and hold power. The final result is that society collapses and perishes.
Welcome to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQF77K3D to buy the Kindle ebook“the course of western civilization(essence version)” This is the fundamental reason why I often question the direction of the so-called democratic society in the United States after losing faith. Because I know the United States too well, I know the past and present life and the past to the present in the United States, so I know what the result will be after losing faith. When the United States’ founding fathers drafted the constitution, based on the experience of the whole world at that time, they were mainly worried about the king’s dictatorship and military tyranny. Therefore, they tried their best to limit the power of the president and the military through such measures as restricting the president’s term of office. However, there were few restrictions on the members of Congress and the justices of the Supreme Court. Therefore, when American society loses its faith, its lousy result is not the presidential dictatorship or military tyranny but the usurpation and even hegemony of power by lawmakers and justices. These lawmakers and judges take advantage of their unlimited term of office to form professional politicians like Pelosi, who have been engaged in politics for a long time and control the American political arena. Or, like Obama, the former president manipulates the US government behind the scenes by controlling the FBI and wielding his influence. Not to mention these politicians, other people are the same. In the previous American society with faith, journalists were called the king without a crown and the fourth right to supervise social justice. In order to encourage freedom of the press, society gave the press great power, especially the social platform, allowing them to delete posts and not assume the responsibility of speech. However, after losing their faith, these news media and social platforms, such as CNN, CBS, fox, Twitter, Facebook, etc., instead exert their rights to suppress dissent and restrict the speech of most people. They arbitrarily delete the speech that does not conform to their views and do not allow such speech to appear on their platforms, forming new censorship and control. Do you think that the founding father of the United States would think of this?
Before that, the American society with faith sympathized with the unfortunate experience of black people becoming slaves and gave them many privileges and preferences. However, after losing faith, black people abused these privileges and preferences to override other races and maximize their own interests. Meanwhile, the labor class and trade unions also abused society’s goodwill and blindly pursued the workers’ high welfare and wages. As a result, American companies lost their competitiveness; they had to move abroad in large numbers to set up branches, which made the American industry hollow and ultimately hurt the United States itself. Even when ordinary people have power, they tend to be autocratic. We can see this tendency from the security guards’ attitude toward the strangers at the community entrance. Therefore, I think that to improve American society truly; we should not perfect the so-called system but revitalize the American faith, Christian faith, or other good beliefs. Otherwise, no matter how perfect the system is, no matter how many people are supervised: such as the president, the speaker, the Supreme Court, the military, the police, major news organizations, a certain race, a specific profession, a particular class, and so on, it is still null and void to supervise all imaginable things. Because the loss of faith in human society is equivalent to the loss of immunity of the human body, society will be a total outbreak of viciousness. Many vicious phenomena that have not appeared before will occur and cannot be prevented. Most ordinary people who supervise these supervision objects are also greedy and degenerate and may abuse power, that is, most tyranny. Eventually, society will inevitably collapse and cease. This is inevitable.
Welcome to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQF77K3D to buy the Kindle ebook“the course of western civilization(essence version)” From here, we can also see the greatness of Aquinas, whom I highly admire. Aquinas realized in the 13th century that Aristotle’s six regimes of human beings, namely, monarchy and dictatorship, aristocracy and oligarchy, democracy and majority tyranny, are actually three regimes and their opposites, that is, monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, and their opposite, dictatorship, oligarchy, majority tyranny. He also added that after losing faith, human beings degenerate inevitably, any system is bound to its opposite, so there is no eternal system, only eternal faith. In the postscript to my 1.2 million word book” “the course of Western civilization”, I summarized my experience in studying human society, history, and systems over the past few decades. I deeply felt Aquinas’s incomparable greatness and realized that humans could never get a perfect system in the secular life, that is, in the secular society and the secular government. The highly respected systems, such as the British monarchy and the democratic system in the United States and northern Europe, have such defects. Neither is perfect nor can it reach the ideal state, that is, a society where everyone is equal, there is no exploitation and no oppression. More importantly, with the loss of faith, the systems of these societies are slowly moving towards their opposite, dictatorship and majority tyranny, as Aquinas said. It is true that mankind does not have an eternal system, only an eternal faith, and an eternal church. Only in the church, through faith and through God’s inner work, in order to be able to go to heaven after death and always have the two greatest goals of happiness filled with the Holy Spirit in real life, can we downplay the concepts of honor, wealth, fame, and talent from the heart. The pursuit of the highest honor, the richest wealth in the world, the loftiest fame for generations to come, the talent above all people. People strive to become superior and superior over all people; that is, the complete greed and degeneration of human nature are the origin of all inequality, exploitation, and oppression in human society. Only when everyone sincerely overcomes the influence of these concepts, especially the influence of honor and vanity, can we realize a society where everyone is equal, and there is no exploitation, a society without oppression. It can be easily found that this can not be achieved in a secular society; It can only be realized in the church. Only through faith can human beings realize their dreams. And faith is also the fundamental purpose of human existence. I don’t know the meaning of human existence if we lose faith. Therefore, it is not the social system that is the foundation of humans but faith. Pursuing faith is also the process of perfecting the human social system and trying to move towards an ideal society. At this time, faith and social system, the state, and the church are integrated here. Only when the two coexist, promote each other, and promote each other can a perfect society be achieved.
Here, I would like to emphasize that the secular life can only be as perfect as possible, and it is impossible to be absolutely perfect. Absolute perfection cannot exist in this world, and humans can’t establish the ideal system and the perfect life. There is no such thing as a completely carefree ideal society in which you can get anything you want.No matter how we live, each of us has such and such pain and trouble, and we have to face the tremendous pain of death. No human system can let people escape death. In a society where you can have whatever you want, maybe you are more in pain than now. Because you have no other problems to worry about, you have to face the ultimate problem of death every day and suffer from the fear of death each day. Absolute perfection can only exist in heaven. Of course, I still hope you can read my book“the course of western civilization(essence version)”“buy the book”, which contains the most systematic and detailed discussion on these issues.
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