The Post magazine has an article: "How Religion Can Help Put Our Democracy Back Together".
It includes this sentence: "Meanwhile, another parallel collapse is unfolding: the erosion of the traditional norms that have sustained our democracy. "
It's the sort of statement which I see relatively often: modern trends are undermining/eroding something from the past.
It's true enough, but what's usually ignored is the building of the new. For example, one thing going on now, about which I know nothing except it's gathering momentum and creating professionals, is the development of online games. What sort of norms are the participants in such games learning? What's the culture which has developed? How might those things carry over to public life.
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