While forgetfulness is a universally experienced bane of humanity, what is now being considered—and even demanded—by many in today’s culture has not so much been forgotten as it has never been learned.

To be forgetful is one thing entirely and is a forgivable problem.  Those with family members who have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease understand the personal anguish associated with those who have lapsed into the terribly increasing nothingness of those diseases.  These families would never blame their loved ones for forgetting; they only possess a deep longing for its cure.

Yet to not know, to be controlled by a veritable arrogance of this agnostic lack of situational awareness, often produces derision in the observers of those who refuse to know.  The realization of those who witness this pandemic of ignorance is this: even if they had the opportunity to show those caught up in their blissful celebration, those affected would never desire to see the presentation of reality nor do they possess the mindset to appreciate what they would deem as an antagonistic view.

Their reaction would demonstrate the wisdom of not casting one’s pearls before swine; they would eat as food which should be digested as wisdom.

Ideas have consequences.  Words have meaning.  Meaning demands that absolute truth must exist.  Truth ignored will bring consequences.

I do not believe in an esoteric version of truth; I believe truth is embodied in a Person.  There exists One who is Truth.  This Truth is absolute.  This Truth exists.  Someone may choose to not believe in Him, yet He cannot be dismissed or ignored; true, one may attempt to do so, but the consequences are profound.

If something in the wisdom presented by humanity—whether philosophically, scientifically, or practically—if such wisdom is true, the One who embodies Truth is the originator and the owner of such Truth.

Too many of the ideas being spread like nightsoil on a field are being seriously considered as viable options to consider.  Are people forgetful?  Yes, but that’s part of being human.  Are people ignorant?  Absolutely!  Yet ignorance is an addressable weakness; yet to do so one must acknowledge their lack of knowledge and seek to overcome that lack with knowledge.

Today, because of the prevalence and overwhelming acceptance of postmodernity, everyone can determine their own truth.  If someone speaks an idea into existence, then we are forced to accept it, unless the speaker is deemed to be unenlightened by those who “know the truth”—who know their truth—and then it is derided and rejected.

To get well when one is sick, it isn’t the fact a doctor exists somewhere and because there is a doctor “out there somewhere” the sickness will be cured.  No, the one who is sick must admit they are sick.  Then they must seek out a doctor who possess the “true” treatment regimen which will then make the one who is sick better or well.

Education, filling people with “knowledge,” will not cure the diseases which now wrack our society and culture; in many ways, unfettered knowledge possessed by those who lack wisdom, contributes to the turmoil we are currently experiencing. 

The English, Franciscan friar, William of Ockham, invented what has been attributed to him as “Ockham’s Razor.”  When a problem has more than two answers which address all the facts of the problem, the simplest answer will be the one most often correct.

The answer to the complex problems facing our world, our society and our culture, should not be addressed by complex and obviously recycled answers.  It is time to set aside arrogance, to reject labels of unsophistication and patriarchy, and consider the One who is Truth, Life and the only Way out of our predicament.  Jesus Christ is the only viable answer to the chaos we are witnessing and experiencing.

Unfortunately, many will reject this answer.  Instead they will opt to once again keep doing what has always been done.

And they will keep receiving what has always been received.