A withering of the soul
I think there is a certain delusion in the west, which seems bound to an idea of democracy. We seem to think we (each individual) have a say in what goes on in the world. The most bizarre and megalomaniac version of this seems to be climate-veganism – to think that we can change the climate of the earth through the portal of our mouths.
This phenomenon is abound and is also the root of conspiracy theories – a belief that somewhere someone is capable of controlling it all.
What ever will be, will be.
We seem to believe that we can decide to change things and things will change.
Systems get complex as they grow older. No one is controlling the war, no one knows where it’ll go.
So in the spirit of Lent or just in the spirit of what would at any other point in time be considered sanity, we should let the world go. It does what it does, energy is finite, don’t waste it on all the things you cannot control (which is almost everything).
Even writing a blog or commenting on a blog is in vane if your goal is change – if thou believe in God, certainly wasting the precious energy granted to you is a sin. The way of Benedictus (not something I’m very familiar with) seems the correct way (at least as far as I’ve understood it) – leave society alone, go live in accordance with your god, don’t crusade, let those come who may and let the rest go.
The delusion of grandeur that democracy has instilled in all westerners is withering away what soul we may have left.