I’ve been going on about the decline and fall of the old order for some time now; The Benedict Option is a book for Christians, trying to wake them up to the changes underway, and urge them to prepare. It is interesting to me to see other people — substantial scholars, not just a curious journalist like me — grappling now with the ongoing collapse of the old order.
Here, for example, is a long essay, well worth your time, by the social scientist James Davison Hunter, who came up with the term “culture war” back in the early 1990s. Hunter says that everybody knows that something is seriously wrong with our society, but most people still believe that it can all be fixed somehow. Excerpts:
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