If you read biblical books like Proverbs or Sirach, wisdom is often basically down-to-earth: how does one live in common with other people? But, in Israel, wisdom was refracted through an additional lens: living successfully with others involved, first and foremost, living in right relationship with God.
Normal political dissent does not take the form of people bellowing like gored oxen on TikTok before an anonymous world as they shave their heads.
Since the election we've seen countless examples of unhinged, callow, hysterical emoting in which people disappointed in Kamala Harris’ loss have displayed on parts of social media behaviors that, in a more normal society, would bring out the folks with straitjackets.
I’ve argued that this behavior comes from a deeper, darker place: the sacralization of politics, turning it into an ersatz religion that fills the values void people who have lost their religion feel but refuse to acknowledge for what it is.
And the job description has changed, when we consider the ascendance of what Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman (in What Are Children For?) call “acceptance parenting.” “Acceptance parenting” is rearing a child according to the norms of the dictatorship of relativism; that is, treating nothing as normative but allowing him to “explore” whatever he might think is his stellar “talent,” at least of the moment.
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/whats-behind-the-post-election-liberal-meltdown
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