Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.

In war, people yearn for relief from strife, leading to peace. In peace, people yearn to champion what they love, leading to war.

World War II had marked “the supreme triumph of man in his long battle with the scarcities in nature.” By.

To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can’t do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that’s impossible unless we fix crime.

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time’s recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal – whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.

History is seasonal, and winter is coming.

They're so logo-washed, so heavily branded when they are young,

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life,

My number one concern is how are we going to take care of people who can't get these jobs.