I’ve come to think, as it happens, that the portrayal of ordinary Americans as helpless victims may be one of the most significant barriers in the way of the constructive changes we desperately need to make… the American assumption that all authority is illegitimate and all boundaries unreasonable… a bit about how the recent abandonment of community plays into the trajectory of decline our civilization is now following… a very awkward place to be… rejecting the system in their hearts while supporting it with their actions… forces that are tearing modern industrial civilization apart.