“The even deeper story of the loss of Christianity in Europe leading to loss of belief in a humane and meaningful society. Interesting and important questions, such as can a society cohere without a shared belief system, have not been engaged. Instead, we are left with the mathematics of supply and demand.”
— Gardenworld Politics: The hope and the issues: Responding to climate collapse by Douglass Carmichael https://a.co/3MdmdHb
2024-06-23: this excerpt from Gardenworld seems important to the general mood here in the USA. The uncertainty about purpose; personal, societal, national, biological(?) is taking a psychic toll on us all. There are limits to what is tolerable.