R.R. Reno Tackles The West’s Current Crisis Of Solidarity In New Book

Editor’s note: What follows is an excerpt from First Things editor R.R. Reno’s new book The Return Of The Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, And The Fate Of The West (Here on Amazon). The book argues that the West must embrace “strong gods,” principles such as patriotism, objective truth, and religion, in order to counteract the harmful values, such as subjective truth and open borders, of the post-World War II consensus in order to prevent the return of the malignant values, fascism and racism, that the postwar order was designed to prevent.

“In the undying twentieth century, the establishments of the West exacerbate our most pressing problems, all of which reflect a crisis of solidarity, rather than addressing them. Marriage is collapsing among working-class Americans. In the face of this reality, it borders on insanity to fix political attention to transgender bathrooms and other symbols of cultural deregulation. An epidemic of death by drug overdose is damaging communities and shattering families, and our leaders are pushing for marijuana legalization. As the suicide rate among unemployed men rises, we launch a crusade for doctor-assisted suicide. Poor neighborhoods are being denuded of functional civic organizations, religious and secular, and we sue the religious organizations trying to serve them, seeking to compel conformity with the sexual revolution. All of this suggests our leadership class is so thoroughly blinded by the postwar consensus that the only problems it can see are those of discrimination, exclusion, and conformism — nails for their open-society hammer. Meanwhile, the actual problems we face — atomization, dissolving communal bonds, disintegrating family ties, and a nihilistic culture of limitless self-definition — go unaddressed. When someone does speak up about them, he is denounced.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/26/r-r-reno-book-rise-strong-gods-west-solidarity/

R.R. Reno Tackles The West’s Current Crisis Of Solidarity In New Book

R.R. Reno Tackles The West’s Current Crisis Of Solidarity In New Book

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