One of the great masterpieces of world literature. And yet a remarkably easy poem to understand, for those open to its message.The poem's theme is the consequences of secularism and the rejection of Judeo-Christian values. We, humanity, are the falcons who in a post-religious world have distanced and cut off ourselves from the falconer, God. With what result? A gradual then sudden descent into madness, irrationality, and cruelty under the guise of a new Age of Enlightenment. This is exactly what happened in the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet totalitarian state. And this is where the West is heading today. Dostoevksy issued similar warnings 50 years before Yeats. Bonus points: Cruelty and mayhem is the norm in human history. 2,000 years of biblical values was the aberration that more or less held such evil at bay. Now that we have jettisoned those values, life will return to its primitive natural dark ways.
@@pobblebonk3 I think, given the litany of apologies that the church issued around the millennium and pope John Paul II's "Prayer for forgiveness of the sins of the church" one could rationally argue that those christian values have in fact been the cause of much of the worlds suffering over two millennia...
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One of the great masterpieces of world literature. And yet a remarkably easy poem to understand, for those open to its message.The poem's theme is the consequences of secularism and the rejection of Judeo-Christian values. We, humanity, are the falcons who in a post-religious world have distanced and cut off ourselves from the falconer, God. With what result? A gradual then sudden descent into madness, irrationality, and cruelty under the guise of a new Age of Enlightenment. This is exactly what happened in the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet totalitarian state. And this is where the West is heading today. Dostoevksy issued similar warnings 50 years before Yeats. Bonus points: Cruelty and mayhem is the norm in human history. 2,000 years of biblical values was the aberration that more or less held such evil at bay. Now that we have jettisoned those values, life will return to its primitive natural dark ways.
Just a note that you may find that those same Christian values Yeats notes did not protect certain cultures from evil.
@@pobblebonk3 I think, given the litany of apologies that the church issued around the millennium and pope John Paul II's "Prayer for forgiveness of the sins of the church" one could rationally argue that those christian values have in fact been the cause of much of the worlds suffering over two millennia...
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