The rotten fruits of a nominalistic view of the universe have ripened in our modern culture. No longer is there a fundamental or universal meaning to an object or creature. Rather, all things have been stripped of all higher meaning and reduced to a series of names or terms. The ultimate expression of nominalistic subjectivism. Concepts or terms which have traditionally been associated with concrete things, such as “family” “gender” or “marriage” have been hollowed out and twisted into mere dressing for whatever the subjective mind can imagine.

No longer are things concretely defined as terms, they’ve become as interchangeable as one’s wardrobe. Fundamental truths like justice or love are reduced to the opinion of the individual, left to decide their own ideas of love or justice. And with that shift we have seen a collapse of morality; giving way to a lawless, chaotic concept of the universe. The “flux” proposed by Heraclitus has become the main viewpoint in the ontological view of the average modern man. All things are perpetually changing, shifting from one extreme to another. This breed of relativism has given way to a sort of self-indulgent nihilism where only the perspective of the individual matters and truth is nonexistent.

It’s like ontology has taken on the insanity of transgenderism, where a clear and defined truth of being no longer means what it appears to. Rather, people are free to choose their own truths regardless of whether it contradicts reality. Relativism is the whole of the law, do what thou wilt. And this insane worldview has stemmed directly from the work of the nominalists and their complete and utter separation of the natural from the supernatural. The immanence of God has been removed from nature, placing Him above and beyond all nature like the One in the metaphysics of Plotinus. This distant, cold, unreachable deity which set the thing in motion and no longer sustains it.

Stripping away the omnipotence of God and replacing it with indifference, where the universe initially had defined principles and laws but has since shifted into flux. The prevailing view of a distant deity among many theists has given way to widespread agnosticism and religious indifferentism. Like a bunch of orphaned children left to make their own way in the world.

The modern world is suffering from its own dysphoria due to the lack of an ontological foundation. Men and women today are spiritually dead and wandering in the darkness chasing after whatever reflections of light they can. Yet these glimmers fade and disappear, only to be discarded for the next faint shimmer of meaning off in the darkness. To return to any sort of sanity in the world, we must return to a foundation of being. A return to the understanding that things in this world have purpose, that there is a ground of truth at the core of being. And only through a reconciliation with God and obedience to the order which He set within creation can remedy the ills of a world lost on its own.