One of the greatest qualities we must bring to the present malaise, the present dilemma, is a sense of history, a sense that we’ve been here before. We’ve seen the overly romantic and the overly rational before. Those extremes have been interwoven throughout history. During the best of times, they’ve balanced each other. We’re not in that balance now. We’re either cheaply romantic (most media and liberals), or cheaply rational (many conservatives and fundamentalist religions). We’re not open, by and large, to great spirituality or to dealing with things holistically and historically. We just
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