Bret fails to see the bigger picture unfolding
In reality, there are NO “institutions dedicated to public truth seeking” nor are institutions “under simultaneous attack”, but “they are all in a state of [systematic] collapse.”
The Antichrist is the liberal fantasy of the “institution” wearing the mask of “care” while presuming to do better for people what we can do for each other - ‘love thy neighbor as thy self.’
The Antichrist isn’t human, but we are inadvertently manifesting its digitalization & power by feeding it our collective human digital (aka “AI”)
The inevitable “collapse” of the counterfeit “greater good” began to accelerate in 2011 as documented in Google Trends
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=institutions%20are%20failing
The [institutions] will eventually COLLAPSE under its own weight of [CORRUPTION].
From Ivan Illich’s 5hr interview with David Cayley in 2000 RE the corruption of Christianity:
“We live, therefore, according to Ivan Illich in an apocalyptic time, a time of revelation. Declining confidence in modern institutions, he said, expresses not the end of Christianity, but the unveiling of that mysterious evil that came into the world with Christianity. This evil was identified by the writers of the New Testament as Antichrist, an evil, that they claimed, would ripen within the church as the intimate and ever-present possibility of a betrayal of the gospel by those who would falsely claim to speak in its name. The Antichrist, in other words, was precisely that perversion about which Illich has been trying to speak. Only now, he says, its consequences lie fully revealed.”
https://youtu.be/jsW8UQgFOBI
We survive the inevitable collapse of all institutions by nurturing conviviality with each other while abandoning the rational materialist worldview (read @DesmetMattias, the author of the Psychology of Totalitarianism).
Indeed, the Universe is not made of matter, it’s made of what matters. It’s made of meaning.