Living in the Material World


	Living in the Material World

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2-1-2008 6:41 PM

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In the context of a culture built on the premise that the ground
of reality is "matter," the arts can only be cosmetic,
a coating of pink icing to sweeten harsh reality: classes in "creative
writing" and everyone "doing their own thing,"
indulging in harmless pastimes while the scientists and technicians
decide the "real" issues. This widespread and popular
concession to "human values" and "the arts"
has been described by C. S. Lewis as "making mud-pies."
Yet until relatively recently every human civilization since the
dawn of time had been based on the recognition that the ground
of reality is spirit. The world's great heritage of knowledge
and wisdom, of philosophy and the arts, is grounded in this premise.
Ours is an imaginatively and spiritually illiterate culture that
no longer takes values and meanings seriously, nor gives Plato's
inner realities of the good, the true, and the beautiful one fraction
of the attention given to technological inventions.
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