Mexit Is Trending

I’m over at Stand Firm today. Enjoy!

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Meghan and Harry are trying to extricate themselves from their senior royal position. Twitter is reporting that it’s “complicated.” The palace is saying that the Sussexes made their announcement a touch too soon. I’ve seen here and there, embedded in various articles, that the British public is nursing no deep love for Meghan, which, of course, is doubtless contributing to her own desire to go do something else. Gavin Ashenden used the word, “self-interest” which caught my eye, since I’d had something to say about that yesterday.

I do think that we are in the middle of a massive cultural shift where the differing expectations about goodness and happiness make the conversation well-nigh incomprehensible, as everyone is talking about two different things.

I mean, I’m not saying anything everybody doesn’t already know. The highest good for the American Elite, which is finally filtering down into every corner of society, even across the pond, is Self-Expression. You must discover who you are and then share that discovery with the world in some obvious way, like wearing certain kinds of clothes, or building a certain kind of house, or messing, in so far as you can, with your own biology. You have a duty to do this, because only by expressing the fullness of yourself can you first of all be happy, and second of all bring peace to the world. Just as God reveals himself to humanity in the Man Jesus Christ, so also you must reveal yourself to the world in some identifiable way. When you do this, your bravery and courage will bring harmony and healing to a broken world.

This view of goodness and holiness is in direct opposition not only with the scripture, but with the foundations upon which western culture has managed to survive for a while now. Being ever so tepidly philosophically Christian at its bedrock, Americans and British people enjoyed an unquestioned assumption that even if you yourself found it difficult to set aside your own desires for the good of others, and for society as a whole, at least you should try….read the rest here!