We've long had a "progressive" elite that preached sexual "freedom," while they themselves did otherwise. They suggest the national government to address all sorts of problems, but wealth insulated them from the effects of norms they'd encouraged the average people to flout.
We're facing what happens when you build a nation on the idea that we're all autonomous individuals who can define our own meaning, while you destroy the social support networks that make us happy, and help us to flourish.
Opioid addiction, suicide, gun violence and mass shootings (and many other things) are simply manifestations of being simple cogs in a machine. We're producing, but not flourishing. We're busy and (usually) healthy, but not satisfied.
We must use this time afforded by the pandemic to re-evaluate what matters, and not simply spiritually. The spiritual is inevitably political, and political reality reflects our spiritual health, or lack thereof.
We're facing what happens when you build a nation on the idea that we're all autonomous individuals who can define our own meaning, while you destroy the social support networks that make us happy, and help us to flourish.
Opioid addiction, suicide, gun violence and mass shootings (and many other things) are simply manifestations of being simple cogs in a machine. We're producing, but not flourishing. We're busy and (usually) healthy, but not satisfied.
We must use this time afforded by the pandemic to re-evaluate what matters, and not simply spiritually. The spiritual is inevitably political, and political reality reflects our spiritual health, or lack thereof.
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