Author Hilary Layne recently published an incisive video essay dissecting why most modern heroes feel hollow despite having a veneer of moral complexity.
Lane's channel only recently popped up on my YT feed. Having listened to a few of them, she seems remarkably sensible in her approach to writing for publication; more businesslike than driven by any particular ideology or belief system, good or bad (I'm too old to know for sure what "based" means, but this would seem to fit that description).
I think it comes from a deeper place of immaturity in modern writers. There is a level of morality that comes naturally to children prior to about age 8, where the only morality that makes sense to them is to ask, "How would you feel if that happened to you?" It is the empathic morality of early childhood, and these writers never advanced beyond that into a Divine Law of morality which is beyond their innate human nature. Because they reject Divinity they also reject Divine Law. Secular atheism leaves people unable to advance beyond empathic morality because it tells them that's the only morality there can possibly be. Any 10-year-old who learns the Ten Commandments is already ahead of them.
Yep, the once-heard "moral of the story" has been removed.
It's up to us to put it back. It's the right thing to do.
Lane's channel only recently popped up on my YT feed. Having listened to a few of them, she seems remarkably sensible in her approach to writing for publication; more businesslike than driven by any particular ideology or belief system, good or bad (I'm too old to know for sure what "based" means, but this would seem to fit that description).
I think it comes from a deeper place of immaturity in modern writers. There is a level of morality that comes naturally to children prior to about age 8, where the only morality that makes sense to them is to ask, "How would you feel if that happened to you?" It is the empathic morality of early childhood, and these writers never advanced beyond that into a Divine Law of morality which is beyond their innate human nature. Because they reject Divinity they also reject Divine Law. Secular atheism leaves people unable to advance beyond empathic morality because it tells them that's the only morality there can possibly be. Any 10-year-old who learns the Ten Commandments is already ahead of them.
Hey, finally an article that completes its thoughts!