A Wednesday Wonder

How’d we get here? It’s indeed a matter of wonder that humankind gets to measure so-called “progress” in a world that it did not make! This age of discovery has roots in an era of the pride of prosperity the fruit of which is a mind that is indeed “without fear”—even the fear of God. 

Here freedom is falsified through self-talk that reinforces sine-fidence rather than con-fidence.  Sine-fidence* raises a banner proclaiming “I shall not be moved” or “I shall not meet adversity.” We are drawn to movements and leaders that promise safety and guarantee security, rather than opt to be moved by love and overcome adversity through  such higher love. Success is redefined in terms of finite possibility and limited liability. 

* Sine-fidence being for our purpose here, the opposite of confidence, i.e., without fide [faith] rather than, with fide.