The importance of values

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Apology of man

It strikes me how often this topic appears in the German and American press. This is logical, because it is values that give man the necessary motivation to live in a certain situation of equilibrium, knowing where he is going and what the ultimate meaning is of the spectacle of life itself, through which we see the world and place ourselves in it. If life were no more than an animal life, without a higher horizon, all humans would have sufficient reason to shoot themselves in the head, because in every life the arduous and suffered portion is usually greater than the moments of pleasure, of happiness.

In spite of so many negative elements, which tend to highlight and exaggerate the mainstream media, the reality is that the silent majority of humanity keeps in the depths of its soul that intimate wisdom that moves it to struggle, to bring up its family and children, to realize itself thanks to a force that cannot come at all from the surrounding environment, but has its veneration in the arcane heights of religious wisdom and in values deeply rooted in the soul. Let us think of a poor family in India, in the Arab countries, in so many simple people on the American continent.

The ascending order of values

First of all, man must have the elementary goods that, as a condition, allow him to live and develop: food, shelter, health, etc. Then come the values of one’s own formation and instruction in school, if not up to university, and then there are the values that come from one’s own learned virtues and integrated into one’s life, which allow one to exercise one’s freedom in work: the values of truthfulness, justice, prudence, temperance, etc. At a higher level we find the aesthetic enjoyment that produces beauty, where the spark of love already appears, which as such should only have as its object one person, which can be parents, friends, one’s own spouse, one’s own country. It is clear that, since these loves are different, they in turn refer to an even higher and ultimate love, which is the love of God, at least for one who believes in God.

Therefore, when one loves something (a car, an animal, a hobby, or even a vice)  more than a person or God, the consequence is the splitting of the personality, which brings with it a growing uneasiness if one does not succeed in cutting it off.

A crisis of values?

Ever since there have been men on our planet there has been a crisis of values. In reality, the most impressive struggles are those that each man wages in his own heart, to achieve the freedom that allows the correct staggering of values in one’s own soul.

In recent years we have seen a decline in the values front. It is said that our world today in 2020 can be compared to the decline of the Roman Empire, until its total ruin in the year 476. This kind of process occurred in almost all other civilizations, so we have to ask ourselves now if we have the same problem today or if the situation is different. In Germany, for example, the government openly raised this problem and could not find any practical measures to remedy it, which is logical because ethical values have always been supported by religious convictions and by ancient traditions and modes of behaviour that have always had a profoundly ethical and moral dimension, as is especially the case in Jewish-Christian culture, which has its roots in a four-thousand-year history and thanks to which the West achieved its greatness.

When these rules are not respected, man and his social coexistence suffer profoundly. The symptoms of this decadence are manifested in a moral fatigue that leads one to think that nothing is worth sacrificing for anymore. It is an interior atmosphere of pessimism that ends in frivolity and carpe diem: that is, in the ‘let’s eat and drink that tomorrow we will die’. This type of person in the end only seeks to have fun, to have a good time, to have moments of intense experience in his senses.

Decline of minorities

While we regret the decline, which gives the appearance that everything is rotten, we must bear in mind that good is not news, but is taken for granted and serves as a contrasting background that highlights evil.  Which mainstream media ever thought of giving the news that on a Monday in Germany, many thousands of parents have struggled to get their children to school, to make breakfast and to get to work on time? Or who would have valued in a press release the hard work of the health workers, or of the people who maintain the transport, or of the people who provide us with electricity, water, etc. Although these services are paid for, the enjoyment and service they give us is greater, because otherwise we would not pay. And what about those who die on a battlefield, or the musicians and artists etc.?

However, we see a decadence that has been going on for at least 400 years: when man began, on a philosophical level, to be exalted above all else, as the absolute center of reference, thus replacing God and his Law. Therefore, today some people lack points of reference to identify man’s identity and destiny, which has led, in the end, to the fall into the clutches of materialism, from which communism and nazism originated, which in total have produced 150 million deaths in the twentieth century. What is impressive is that the Western world has not learned by heart, as the great feast of unexpected economic growth has an enormous seductive force, because it allows all kinds of ‘luxuries’ that half a century ago were could afford only millionaires.

Indicators of decadence: in Europe and the USA at least sixty million unborn children aborted, sexual debauchery, divorces and the destruction of the family, drugs, alcohol etc. The void of authentic values is lately filled by false principles, such as ecology, when it is absolutized, ignoring that science does not justify in any way the panic or environmental hysteria. Scientists are legion who oppose ecological deception, but they are not as echoed as certain politicians, who have discovered in ecology, as well as in genderism, etc., ideal elements of subversion and confrontation in society, making them the referees of the game to give victory to those who are most interested. In the end it is a game of Marxist dialectics of divide and rule. In 1917 the poor clashed with the rich and the nobility. And since the problem of poverty is no longer an issue, we must look for others. And in the future perhaps they will seek to manipulate public opinion to pit old pensioners (as exploiters of the working class) against the young, or women against men, which is in fact already happening.

When the individual is unprincipled, he is easy prey to all kinds of political or commercial manipulation, leading him to vote for bad candidates or to spend his money badly. He is passionately opposed to the demands of morality because he does not want to leave the pedestal of his self-sufficiency. However, no one knows what percentage of people have thrown away their values, since the surveys that are made, are based on sampling and questions set in such a way, so that the results that are sought are achieved. It is not possible to take the pulse of tens and hundreds of millions of people, and if we look closely, people continue to struggle to live with dignity, like so many mothers and fathers who keep their families working, becoming the silent majority who within themselves continue to strive to be faithful to faith and ethical principles. It is a majority that does not manifest the great noise of unruliness produced by a small percentage of the world’s population, which has the money to make itself heard and to give the appearance that everyone is like them