Deafness to contemporary Prophetic Voices

[ExTiff]

Can it be that we have so much ossified the word of God and contained it in a single Book, that we no longer can hear the voice of The Holy Spirit from any other quarter. 'Listening' was key to understanding the parables of Jesus and His ultimate warning and encouragement message to the Jewish 'Church'. Have we also become dull of hearing and slow to understand? When confronted with this famous poem do we 'listen', read, mark learn and inwardly digest, or do we simply dismiss as irrelevant what we do not make the effort to understand?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Are we actually 'sleep walking' through this prophesy buffeted by Trump, Brexit and Alt Right/Far left 'passionate intensity' etc? Is the 'falcon' of Alt Right and Ult Left politics now 'deaf' to reason and simply enjoying their release by dog whistling, manipulative, show seeking, ambitious, narcissistic politicians, and now running amuck, sabotaging democracy and promoting 'mere anarchy' to attain their own nefarious ends?
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[The Barbarian]

Yeats wrote this in 1919, as he foresaw the rise of malignant nationalism that would lead to a greater disaster than the "Great War."

And it's eerily appropriate to the times we're in.

I think this time, the beast will fail.

 

[ExTiff]

Yeats wrote this in 1919, as he foresaw the rise of malignant nationalism that would lead to a greater disaster than the "Great War."

And it's eerily appropriate to the times we're in.

I think this time, the beast will fail.

I sincerely hope so.