You wake up in a news cycle that never sleeps. With a cup of coffee, you read what ‘doomcasters’ are saying about end-of-life scenarios appearing on the horizon. Now you are fully awake and wondering what to do with these high alert headlines? Do you let existential crisis into your life?
For those with main character syndrome, what occurs is not a lack of feeling, but a lack of understanding. Hindsight, foresight and insight are banished for the sake of a romanticized fantasy that places them at its center.
The obvious ones deserving a millstone necklace include financier pedophiles . . . but what about certain schoolteachers who turn their classrooms into a type of jihadi Madrasa, a religious school for the incubation of destructive mindsets?
2025. Those of us striving to maintain the good, the true, the beautiful, and our precious homeland felt a hard-to-name force displacing us from the “past, people, place, and prayer” (Kingsnorth).
When we hear someone say crazy things, we might say “Yeah, right” and shrug it off. But when a group of people say crazy things in concert and people agree with said crazy things, we wonder “What in the world is going on?”