Notes from the Path #17

If we want a new normal, where can we get one?

If the lifestyle that naturally flows from secular, materialist assumptions is, in the long run, so unsatisfying to the human soul, where do we look to solve our current crisis?

First, we have to understand that the concrete conditions of daily life that constitute “normal” flow from shared ideas about what the good life is. Every culture has these. They may not be explicit. Ours often are not. Instead, they are baked deeply into the cultural psyche. They are the default assumptions of the majority of society.

If we want to change our normal, we have to change our ideas.