For a couple decades now, I've been saying -- sometimes whispering, sometimes shouting -- that a "Pride" parade of any sort is a one-way ticket to the abyss. It's not just the narcissism and raw hubris that seals your fate. It's a matter of externalized self-regard, the focused satellite view of Self which renders everything else more dim and distant than the farthest star. Pride doesn't just go before a fall. Pride doesn't know when it's falling, because there isn’t anything else to compare itself to.
Very well said. this is a compelling theological piece. if you're not familiar with John Cassian's "Conferences," Evagrius of Ponticus' "Prakticum", and Buber's "I and Thou" I think you might find them useful. there's a conversation to be had between this piece and these other theologians. One thing I find that you hint at is that pride does love to walk with vainglory...
Pride is indeed a tough nut to crack. I considered myself a Nietzschean for decades which is a different form of pride to be sure, but pride nonetheless.
For a couple decades now, I've been saying -- sometimes whispering, sometimes shouting -- that a "Pride" parade of any sort is a one-way ticket to the abyss. It's not just the narcissism and raw hubris that seals your fate. It's a matter of externalized self-regard, the focused satellite view of Self which renders everything else more dim and distant than the farthest star. Pride doesn't just go before a fall. Pride doesn't know when it's falling, because there isn’t anything else to compare itself to.
Very well said. this is a compelling theological piece. if you're not familiar with John Cassian's "Conferences," Evagrius of Ponticus' "Prakticum", and Buber's "I and Thou" I think you might find them useful. there's a conversation to be had between this piece and these other theologians. One thing I find that you hint at is that pride does love to walk with vainglory...
Well said
I did notice that the very fact that promotion of degeneracy is promoted as "Pride" is indicative of the dark origins of this behavior
Pride is indeed a tough nut to crack. I considered myself a Nietzschean for decades which is a different form of pride to be sure, but pride nonetheless.