There are rumors out there that Tucker Carlson’s speech at the Heritage Foundation stirred Rupert Murdoch from his slumber. After waking from a long night of cheese/wine and fraternization with one of FOX’s treasured hires, Caitlyn Jenner, Murdoch demurred the Episcopal pundit as a religious zealot.
Tucker’s evening opinations led him to the apex of cable news providing him a powerful platform to speak poetically and prophetically on all sorts of institutional heresies of the day. We should probably pause and laugh that God would use an Episcopalian to speak truth to a generation of LGBT sympathizers. HAHAHA! We should hope that Tucker’s priest acts rightly and excommunicates this purveyor of conservative dogma from its ranks.
But there is something else that FOX’s actions prove, and that ladies and gentlemen, is that #Tuckergate is merely proof that a society of generic institutionalization has lost its traditional values because values are no longer a shared family business.
I have often said of Chesterton that even when he is wrong, he is interestingly wrong. The same could be said of Carlson and many others whose outline of reality directly challenges the leftist corridors of D.C.
At one time, institutions provided a common good, and their message appealed broadly because there was consensus that a man with a penis should not shower with women even though he argued he was no longer playing the role of a man on TV. But now, such institutions are no longer interested in drawing people to a common good; let’s call it, for the sake of healthy dialogue, God’s truth. Instead, they are eager to fragment society with their message and slogans. I mean, if I told you five years ago that Wheaties’ declaration on their cereal box that Caitlyn Jenner was the woman of the year would be the most conservative thing to come out of big media for the next five years, would you believe it? They don’t make breakfast for champs as they used to anymore.
We are in the negative world where Christians are the bad guys, and most institutions will function with that presupposition in their message and means. They will operate determinedly in an anti-Christian fashion, from their cereal to their evening agenda on cable television.
Thus, institutionalization is dead, much like expertism. They function like George MacDonald’s character, Dr. Kelman, slowly poisoning the king’s wine. But Tucker–like Curdy–will discover the plot and actively work against it.
While institutions are inevitable, institutionalization, with its shared dogma, no longer exists for the good. Christians are experiencing a massive break from such paradigms and forming new institutions decidedly Christian.
The values of these institutions will not appeal broadly to the masses but to a growing segment that sees Christian religious ideals rooted in fundamental ecclesiastical creeds as something to be pursued.
This explains why smaller bodies (churches, schools, co-ops) are surging in popularity. Institutions will need ways to train, educate, and ingrain a new cultural ethos. They need to be prepared for a 20-40 year strategy. She can longer function pragmatically but theologically. Institutionalization is dead, and Tucker Carlson added another blow to its attempt at revivification.
