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“We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other words a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
You might be interested to know that the video of a lecture given by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, whom I rank among the most distinguished Muslim thinkers of the past century, at BYU’s Museum of Art in early September 2012, is available for viewing online. It’s entitled “Islam: Truth and Beauty”:
His coming was at least partly my idea, and yet, even though I played a modest role in arranging for his visit to campus, I missed his lecture because I had to be in Istanbul at the time.
I know, I know. Rough life. And it’s true: It wasn’t a bad alternative, but still . . . I would like to have been able to attend his lecture. So it’s great to have it available online.
Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England
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