The Fight for Cultural Sanity
Is ours to lose, and we are losing
The societal challenges we face are escalating. How much social insanity do you witness daily at a local level? We are losing our battle against irrationality and the destructive forces it unleashes.
Yes, this has happened before and in different countries at different times, but we are in an emerging planetary culture that is destroying itself at birth. That is unique and raises the current round of national elections to a level far above everyday politics in the modern world.
Existing governments worldwide are experiencing disruption. While authoritarian regimes seem to be able to suppress the growing insanity, that means only those still moderately representative in form are being destroyed from within. The authoritarian wave will collapse in the climate disaster with everyone else but will carry extra suffering.
We are losing more than the modern tradition of representative government that has helped produce the current disaster. Our willingness to ignore anti-democratic movements, ethnic cleansing, and genocide by arbitrary nation-states with an agenda is destroying the opportunity for self-determination that was a core principle of 20th-century modernity. The irony is that the full force of American weaponry is available for this purpose in more areas…
