re: #154 recusancy

When did it start?

The kind of ugly consumer nihilism I’m speaking off took off after WWII.
The steady replacement of real community, real family structure and time, real religious environments etc, with their toxic mimics has in my opinion only reached a crisis in the last 40 years.

Not that you need to be a member of a religion, but you shouldn’t fill that void with excitement over a hockey team or something similar.

This is essentially the crisis of post modernism that Nietzsche warned us of over 120 years ago. We’re still getting there, although the implications are playing out in profound ways (see terrorism, neoconservatism and the noble lie, etc)>