The Mad World
The world is absurd. Ugly absurd.
To repair ugly absurdity, you can’t just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity.
We call it, “holy madness”. — Tzvi Freeman
If… you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane–if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground–ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility.
From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.
… C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Problem of Pain, Macmillan company, 1944, p.52
