The View from Nowhere

Thomas Nagel, a philosopher, wrote a book: The View from Nowhere, which included observations on death.

His defining observation was:

I am concerned with the adequate recognition of my eventual annihilation itself. There will be a last day, a last hour, a last minute of consciousness, and that will be it. Off the edge.

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Then I go to David Horowitz' book Radical Son. He writes of his thoughts of his parents: "...not even now that they had been returned to their primordial dust...It seemed to me a metaphor for life itself, which sets us free only to bring us relentlessly back to earth.

In his earlier years, Horowitz had been a major player in the 1960 USA student commitment to a communist revolution in the USA...on the basis of what he now terms a powerful "crypto-religion" that transformed into "..cultural Marxism, which denied the very idea of the individual and revived Marx's class as a war against racial and gender oppression."

This sought (seeks) to obliterate the individual, the only locus of suffering and the only source of personhood and its values.

Yet, if one considers that we are but dust and will return to dust, nothing about the individual as having inherent value remains.

It only exists, because we are made like God, and by God: Genesis 2:7.