A thought that came to me in relation to the post, Liberalism, Thought and Temptation, regarding one’s diligence regarding thoughts, whatever the source. Thoughts can lead to all kinds of unwise activities and inner states, even onto suicide. And so it’s pretty important to be able protects oneself, one’s core, and have boundaries, borders as it were, so that everything doesn’t have free rein to pour through to our psyche. And how under modern liberalism, thoughts that should be easily recognised as toxic temptations are given full freedom over the psyche, their mere appearance justifying them as legitimate and to be fostered. So the intellectual immune system is intentionally done away with, and every emanation or invasive force is welcomed in! There is no illegitimate or transgressive presence - except, that is, to say there is an illegitimate presence! That’s the one thought that’s not allowed to hang around.
Equate this to the attitude to national borders, especially with regard to the present. Under socialist/progressive thinking, there are no borders, and the very idea of protecting one’s borders is the ‘sin’ against the ideology! It’s an exact parallel, as in the inner world, so in the outer.
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