Ross Douthat has a provocative piece that ties cults to the underlying creativity and ferment of a society. Some argue that fewer fringe groups implies a lack of experimentation and adventure in the society.
It seems to me that increasingly intolerance of anything but social liberalism and the concentration of more and more power in a centralized administrative state supervising an increasingly nominal market capitalist economy are signs of stagnation and fear. Our elites fear change so we don't get the creative destruction we need to move foward. Whole sectors of our economy and society have been subsumed in a deadening miasma of regulation, law and subsidy, leading to stasis and fear rather than dynamism and courage.
God help us every one.
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