We should enter our new millennium by running a strainer through our past to lift from each of its three periods the gold it contains and let its dross sink back into the sands of history. Modernity’s gold—i.e., science—is certain to figure importantly in the third millennium, and postmodernity’s focus on justice likewise stands a good chance of continuing. It is the traditional worldview that is in jeopardy and must be rehabilitated if it is to survive.
