Sept. 30, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| We are living at a turning point right now. | |
| And for most of my life, if not all of my life, we have been in a period of really serious crisis and decline. | |
| I think 2020 and the ensuing events were kind of the most dramatic form of this. | |
| But in many ways, as other people have pointed out, the riots of 2020 and the disasters of the COVID pandemic and its aftermath were just a final kind of explosion that had been building and boiling for decades and decades and decades. | |
| And in my particular domain, which is Western culture, Western arts and literature and philosophy, you really can trace that back at least to the cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s. | |
| Hey, hey, ho ho, Western Civ has gotta go. | |
| This really dedicated rejection of our wisdom traditions, especially in schools, especially conspiring directly to kind of miseducate and uneducate young kids and college kids. | |
| And I think you saw the fruits of that when America went through one of its biggest crises, perhaps crises in our history, um, with this kind of outpouring of partisan rage and iconoclasm and what Roger Scruton might have called eukophobia, the fear of everything local and native. | |
| And what's really remarkable about that to me is not that it it happened. | |
| In fact, it seemed pretty predictable that it would go happen at some point because gone on. | |
| But what's remarkable is that we seem to have now come out of it and passed through into something quite different. | |
| It's typically referred to in casual speech as the vibe shift. | |
| We've seen this real kind of shifting of momentum, shifting of weight uh away from this kind of oichophobia, this this revolutionary Jacobinite spirit, and into uh a m a kind of brighter and perhaps more optimistic period where people, | |
| even if they're not aggressively right wing, even if they're not even Trump voters, people are starting to realize that you can only scream and yell and tear down statues and set things on fire for so long before things start to get really bad, and at a certain point you have to actually be constructive and you have to build. | |
| And now the energy seems to be in the direction of kind of recovering and rebuilding some of our most profound traditions, these these wisdom traditions of Athens and Jerusalem. | |
| You're starting to see return to, if not traditional religion, to sort of spiritual ideas, that the something something other than just the raw materialism that has dominated for for so long is coming back, I think into popularity, starting to see young men in particular returning to church and to traditional religious services. | |
| And you're you're starting to see a kind of political energy in the direction of pro-Americanism. | |
| It's it's no longer cool to be detached and critical of everything that went before. | |
| Now there's there's a renewed interest in kind of some degree of cultural stability and clarity. | |
| And all of this is very much in its infancy, very early days. |
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