The other day I remarked in a comment that the heritage of the 60's is a quite literally 'demoralized' America. Meaning, that the official civic religion of America is a sort of mushy Libertarianism that holds that, since no person can claim to know the truth of things--least of all of human nature--the only rule of conduct for society as a whole is to refrain from harming others. There are no other positive values that society should seek to advance and, indeed, to claim that there are is to be anti-social and somehow anti-American in 21st century America. It's not the kind of thing that many people regard as worth fighting for. We have relied on a general societal willingness to live more or less off the cultural and Western civilizational capital of the past, but that has largely been used up.
Demoralized America
Demoralized America
Demoralized America
The other day I remarked in a comment that the heritage of the 60's is a quite literally 'demoralized' America. Meaning, that the official civic religion of America is a sort of mushy Libertarianism that holds that, since no person can claim to know the truth of things--least of all of human nature--the only rule of conduct for society as a whole is to refrain from harming others. There are no other positive values that society should seek to advance and, indeed, to claim that there are is to be anti-social and somehow anti-American in 21st century America. It's not the kind of thing that many people regard as worth fighting for. We have relied on a general societal willingness to live more or less off the cultural and Western civilizational capital of the past, but that has largely been used up.