👉 🔔 *Click Here to Subscribe:* https://www.youtube.com/ @RockLincPartners Subscribe for more on principled investing, biblical worldview, and the economics of the moment.Which way, Western World? The Road to Surfdom, or the Road to the Celestial City?Will you choose Socialistic tyranny fueled by the untethered, toxic empathy of the modern secular mind, or repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that allows for the ordered, virtuous liberty, and maximum freedom and prosperity that has made the West so prosperous?*ABOUT*Gad Saad calls it suicidal empathy. F. A. Hayek called it the fatal conceit. Both diagnosed the disease destroying the West, and both stopped short of its root.In this essay reading, Jonathan Wellum, President & CEO of Rocklinc Investment Partners, takes up Saad's "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind" and Hayek's critique of central planning, then goes deeper than either. Drawing on R. J. Rushdoony's "The Politics of Guilt and Pity," Jonathan argues that the pathologies we're watching unfold — envy rebranded as social justice, progressive taxation without limiting principle, criminals prioritized over victims, producers treated as prey — are not primarily failures of psychology or economics. They are the predictable fruit of rejecting the Christian worldview rooted in Genesis 1–3.Jonathan explains why America's decline has been slower than Canada's, why "you cannot redistribute what has not been produced," and why Saad's calibrated empathy and Hayek's spontaneous order, though necessary, remain insufficient without the transcendent grounding they lack. The remedy is not ecclesiocracy but a recovery of foundations: government administering justice rather than engineering outcomes (Romans 13), compassion re-grounded in truth, and a gospel that frees the conscience from bondage to the state.*Christ is Lord, not Caesar.*📄 *READ* - A Biblical Diagnosis of Suicidal Empathy and the West’s Death Spiral by Jonathan Wellum:* https://rocklinc.com/newsroom/a-biblical-diagnosis-of-suicidal-empathy-and-the-wests-death-spiral/📖 *CHAPTERS* ⏰00:00 – INTRODUCTION - The Problem: Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy, Hayek's Fatal Conceit, and Rushdoony's Politics of Guilt & Pity02:45 – The Failure of Central Planning03:04 – The Biblical Diagnosis04:00 – CHAPTER 1: Genesis 1–3: The Only Coherent Foundation04:17 – A Biblical Anthropology - Imago Dei, the Dominion Mandate, and the Fall07:13 – CHAPTER 2: How Rejecting Genesis Produces Suicidal Empathy07:13 – 2.1: Loss of Human Dignity as the Imago Dei08:41 – 2.2: An Aversion to Work as the Rejection of the Dominion Mandate09:51 – 2.3: Disordered Empathy11:19 – 2.4: Absence of Trancendence Leads to Imminentizing of the Eschaton via Utopianism12:30 – CHAPTER 3: Residual Christian Capital & the West's Accelerating Decline14:09 – Socialism: The Parasitic Rule of the Messianic State as the Road to Serfdom15:29 - Christ is King: The Righteous Rule of the True Messiah as The Only Coherent Remedy16:24 – CONCLUSION: Civic Renewal and Gospel Regeneration*WATCH MORE ARTICLE VIDEOS* https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLjbJS8-FZgaHXLBnkovDWARy25TFSEUuX/editWant help achieving your financial goals? Contact us!: ✉️ info@rocklinc.com, or 📞 call us 905.631.5462.🔗 https://www.rocklinc.comCopyright © 2026 ROCKLINC Investment Partners Inc. All rights reserved._ROCKLINC and/or RKLC may hold positions in securities discussed. Not financial advice. Please see rocklinc.com._
