At the beginning of Paul Johnson’s Modern Times he laments the two biggest failed ideas of the 20th Century, moral relativism (Weaver’s nominalism) and the lack of personal responsibility (society, not me, is responsible for my circumstance).
It is very difficult to see how our culture or even the world recovers from these bad ideas. How do you convince the post-modern mind that there are universal truths?
In my opinion, only world catastrophe, like depression or war of unprecedented scale can reorient these thought processes. They must be completely destroyed, eradicated and humiliated. There are too many people invested in these thoughts for their destruction/discredit to occur in the normal process of idea exchange.
Hence why Christianity, especially in Europe, is nearly extinct.
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Haven't heard that name in a while.