What are we trying to achieve?
Our Age is characterized by small thinking, fear, and a complete lack of vision. We are not only in a bad place; we can’t even imagine a better place to be.
This is totally unacceptable. It’s important that we face and overcome our crises. But that’s not nearly enough. We need to do more than survive.
What politician, what billionaire, what movement, what entity is providing a real vision of where we need to go and how we can get there?
Well, there are some false prophets. Marxists and Libertarians have visions. These are ideas that are so malleable that they can accommodate and “explain” any situation—and provide unproven, and in some cases disproven “solutions.” But the non-religious Marxists are always awaiting the impending collapse of capitalism and victory of communism with the same quaint certitude of the Christian who sees Jesus returning any moment now.
Marxists and Libertarians and, yes, Christians, by providing vacuous “explanations” for everything, explain nothing. Reading the tea leaves of history to fit them into pre-conceived notions, or gymnastically wordsmithing the text of an allegedly divine book—well, they are a distraction at best.
