Amy Winehouse’s public decent into the primitive abyss of promiscuous sex, profanity and drugs is a reflection of a society that, as her last album title betray’s, has gone “Back to Black”.
This is due largely to the one-sidedness of the Enlightenment and a certain hedonism that has given rise to autonomy and anti-authoritarianism. Today’s world view takes a very dogmatic posture that excludes interventions of God in the world.
People feel a need for spirituality but are unwilling to sacrifice anything for it. As a result religion has become for the masses something that exists in the subjective sphere where objective dogmatic contents do not bind us. Spirituality is little more than the individual affirming himself.
But living according to one’s own claims and criterions is a false recipe for life. The refusal of suffering and creatureliness, and a lack of being held to a standard are ultimately the refusal of love itself, and that ruins man. It is precisely in allowing himself to be pruned that man is enabled to mature and bear good fruit.
In this new “dark age”, the intimate link between freedom and truth has been obscured in the minds and hearts of some, and eclipsed in those of others. We all need to set out on the mountainous path to the good where we will discover more and more the beauty that lies in the efforts demanded by truth.
Mr. Koloski, you will get the sainthood you so obviously crave but only after you have departed this earthly life I’m afraid.
What a conundrum of words – nonsensical.
My heart goes out to Amy’s family, I pray for her soul and her family.
Who are you to be so judgemental of others? We are not the judge nor should we judge, I am sure that Amy has answered to our maker!!! Let ye without sin cast the first stone – and you call yourself a Christian. Do they pay you to write this foolishness???
Some useful information (possibly to DNO, as well): I Googled Paul Kokoski, as this was the second strange article by him I have seen so far recently on DNO. Information is sparse, but what I found suggests that the person or persons going by the name of Paul Kokoski submits these articles to a huge number of news presses around the world. His articles appear to primarily be focused on pushing a highly conservative agenda, sometimes insulting those who disagree. It is not clear who he/she is or if this person is a single person at all. My theory is that this person is doing these articles as a joke to get people angry, and I’m one of the people who took the bait and wrote a long response, thinking he was someone who might actually visit the site and read it.
Whatever the case, I just thought people should be aware of this, if they did not know before.
marijuana is the caused of her death.it has killed many Dominicans already.PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG.
stop spreading rumors…. the autopsy has been done and yet no results have been released…..
All of the people who have responded to this article ahead of me have been rather harsh with the writer particularly with regards to the degree of complexity with which he wrote. I also share this sentiment. However for those people who can understand it, I do understand where the man is coming from.
wait….anyone got a webster’s dictionary?
Simply put…the man is being an arrogant, idiotic, judgmental, hypocrite. Where is the the empathy? A 27yr old woman who lived a much publicized but very sad life. Yes she was rich, had fame and all the worldly goods she needed; but how can you act as a champion for Christianity and not feel any sadness at the death of a fellow human? Please Mr. Whoever you are. Sit for a moment and reflect for a moment about what it means to be human. You may have your own views (that is allowed) but take a moment to remember that a family is in mourning and a young and talented life is lost. God is a God of love and forgiveness and peace. R.I.P Ms Amy Winehouse. We will forever treasure your music.
What is so difficult to understand in this piece? She lived hard so she died young. she did not see a need for any spirituality, for any awareness that life is bigger than her. Life is more fulfilling when you understand your role. This girl didn’t even know who she was.
Were you writing for yourself or for an audience?
i know it might make sense in your head. but honestly i don’t get the point of what you were trying to say. IF you had a point anyway. thought u said is was a commentary of her death.Did u even bother to mention it or just used the first few line as an excuse to say what u feel u needed. to. If you have something to day. SAY IT. DON’T PRETEND….
Who cares. She had too much money. If her disease was emotional or psychological or both she was rich enough to get any kind of help she needed..
I am hungry right now.
Wow, Mr. Kokoski–more ingenious brilliance from you.
But seriously, why do you write these things for DNO? Firstly, do you actually expect the majority of your audience to have any familiarity with the Enlightenment, anti-authoritarianism, and the like? Or–more likely–do you simply hope your audience will see a succession of seemingly obscure terms and, assuming that anyone who uses such terms is a genius, write comments praising your amazing Einsteinian brilliance? If the latter, I suggest both a philosophy textbook and perhaps something in the medical line.
Beyond that, I wonder whether or not you yourself even know what you’ve written. By stringing together these terms with no attempt at explaining what any means or when a period in history occurred, this essay is a jumbled, pretentious mess, much like your previous one about gay marriage. Does it occur to you, first of all, that Amy Winehouse is not the globe? That, in other words, because she had problems, it doesn’t mean everyone else in the globe had the same ones?
Did it further occur to you that drinking and drug abuse have been problems for people more or less since our species evolved? At what point in history are there NOT people abusing substances? The mass media makes it easy to show celebrities caught in the act, sure; but drunks and druggies have been with us in various forms for ages. Winehouse is no exception and was not even nearly as bad as some other examples out there. While I do not mean this as a defense of her actions, mind you, I do mean it as an attack on your premise, which, through the muddle, appears to be that Winehouse represents today’s return to the dark ages–though you then claim the Enlightenment is the problem, whereas the Dark Ages occurred centuries before the Enlightenment. You see part of the problem?
Furthermore, what makes you think that your obscure definitions of religion and “truth” are, in fact, true? What makes you right? What makes you think that anyone who is not religious is a bad person? And there is the problem: you believe that everybody not bound by the “objective dogmatic contents” (another wonderfully clear phrase) of an ancient book is a drunk and a drug abuser like Amy Winehouse. If THAT was the case, the world would be full of such people–or, rather, empty, since a good deal of the population would be dead, like Winehouse!
You don’t know what a real argument is, unfortunately, and are too close-minded to understand. To you, everyone who disagrees with you is a psychopath drunk. This is absurd in the highest degree, and you attempt to mask this poor reasoning under terms you hope your audience won’t understand. Well, you failed. Just because someone is not religious does NOT mean they are bad people, much less an alcoholic drug-abuser. Come on, man. Seriously.
And this is the final issue: you make huge connections between time periods and ideas without stopping to realize that all of life and history is not a nice straight line like you see to believe. Structures like you enjoy making are not simple, orderly things. Life is often messy and complex, as is history, and to attempt to make such absolute connections over centuries leading to Amy Winehouse is poor arguing and would get you an F on any research paper. (Sources? Where are your sources? Where is your proof?)
Better luck next time, Mr. Kokoski.
The article is confusing. The writer seem to be have gotten lost along the way.
But righteous living will bring a righteous ending as sure as a life of unrighteousness and sin brings a shameful and disgraceful end, no matter what generation or age we are in. It has always been and will always be so.
God’s word is true and is established whether you like it or believe it
or not.
“Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to anypeople.”
The writing could have been simpler. I’m here trying to figure out the concepts and just don’t have the time to.
What is this man really trying to say. I read this article twice and I still can’t get the message in the article.
that makes two of us,lol.