The cultural crisis is the complete infiltration of these disvalues into the larger human fabric that constitutes Western human society, acting as an ἐνέργεια πλάνης:
"καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πέμπει αὐτοῖς ὁ θεὸς ἐνέργειαν πλάνης εἰς τὸ πιστεῦσαι αὐτοὺς τῷ ψεύδει" ("And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" - Second Letter to the Thessalonians 2:11).
The signs that the majority of Western society perceives in the surrounding world are like icons devoid of any underlying value. They are empty icons without a truth to reveal.
The icon is the message.
Beyond it, there is nothing. It perfectly combines the triad of the cultural crisis of the West:
nihilism-Gnosticism-ἐνέργεια πλάνης.
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