America Needs a New Morality
Self-interest is killing us. Passivity is black pill-ing us. If only there were another way…
Oh, my fellow Americans, we are having such a complete melt-down. It’s not just the government, economy, pandemic and climate collapse that are making us haywire. Those catastrophes were all shaped by the principles that have been guiding our civilization into this mess for centuries.
It’s our values that are the real problem.
We’ve been told we should pull ourselves up by our bootstraps while we turn the other cheek. We’ve been sold rational self-interest in a world of irrational corporate greed and performative self-flagellation. We’ve been fed self-help and helplessness in the face of systemic problems, packaged as wokeness that keeps putting us back to sleep. Red pills, black pills, corporate shills and social ills — it’s no wonder Gen Z is into nihilistic emo rap and Xanax. At this point, why not just give up on it all and get bad face tattoos?
Face it — America’s moral compass is broken. We’re not going to change our systems if we don’t change the values underneath them.
Our Morals Suck
To boil it all down, we’ve got two bleak moral camps to choose from.
