And there was no remedy.

January 8th, 2024.

Introduction.

We are often reminded in the words of the preacher

that there's nothing new under the sun,

Ecclesiasties 1-9.

By this observation, he certainly does not mean that there cannot be any new inventions or any new devices.

The Prophet Daniel tells us that men will run to and fro and knowledge will increase, Daniel 12.

We have figured out lots of new things

that have certainly appeared transformative

and on their own level we need to grant that they have been

transformative.

I'm speaking of the screw pump or the long bow or the steam engine or the microchip

the hot new thing that all the folks are talking about now is AI. But at the end of the

day after all the excitement over whatever has died down, the perennial issues still remain.

People are still people. And this is what the preacher was talking about. The human condition is the

human condition and what we are calling our postmodern Anui or Anxed or

decadence as though it were some new thing is not a new thing at all. What we are

going through is just what cultures always go through when they get to this stage.

Imagine being an 85-year-old man who

had come to believe that his situation or condition was absolutely unique in the history of the world. He was the only

one. He couldn't read up on what was going to happen to him next because he thought he was the only person this had ever happened to.

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