Re:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/face-value
>Any student of history will look at the trajectory and tell you plainly, the writing is on the wall. So set your rhetoric down on all sides, and contemplate what sort of nation you intend to be when your day in the sun is over.
Amen.
Further reading, in hopes of course correction and best possible outcomes:
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
Jacobs—renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities —pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation, and government; and the self-regulation of the learned professions. The corrosion of these pillars, Jacobs argues, is linked to societal ills such as environmental crisis, racism, and the growing gulf between rich and poor.
But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Drawing on a vast frame of reference—from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to Ireland’s cultural rebirth—Jacobs suggests how the cycles of decay can be arrested and our way of life renewed.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85397.Dark_Age_Ahead