Defection's Consequences
Each of us begins his life as a wrongthinker and wrongdoer, alienated from God and inclined towards negligence of our developmental task and violations of natural principles, distressed, heading for disaster, and with no tendency to change course.
Wrong thinking takes many forms. See Idolatries.
Wrong doing leads to all kinds of evils, the natural consequences of ignoring our maker's instructions.
It leads to human development that is stunted, fragmentary and distorted.
It leads to a sense of futility and distress. Many wrongdoers hide their distress under a cloak of optimism, but it is always there.
It leads to loss of harmony with nature and therefore to disease and natural disasters.
It leads to neglect or denial of all natural principles.
It has brought death as we know it into the world. In God's original plan selves who had fully played their proper part in the human task might in due course have expired to await fulfillment through resurrection. Death is a corrupt form of such expiry, always involving disease of some kind, brought about by our wrongdoings.
These evils can be mitigated by heeding natural principles, but to avert them altogether requires pure goodness, for which defected humanity has no will. Neither remorse nor ceremony nor moral effort nor aught else we do, whether individually or together, can restore us to pure goodness.
Man's defection is the ultimate object of comedy, which in its original and proper function is a form of humility. It has been said that comedy is based on "the discrepancy between human aspiration and human achievement", and this is true, but this discrepancy is not the one that arises from the mere process of learning by trial and error, which is an inherent part of humanity as such and is unfunny. It is the failure to learn from our mistakes that is funny, as well as being tragic.
"The human condition cannot be as bad as you say. If it were, there would be no hope for mankind, and despair would be the right attitude."
There is no hope from man but there is hope for man! Read on ....