A New Americanism. Why a Nation Needs a National Story.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve increasingly parted ways from the left and from feminism — not because I’ve abandoned those principles or those ideals but because they have abandoned me.

There’s only so much denial of science, of history, and embrace of conspiracy-mongering and wishful thinking that one can take before saying, “No more of this.” These same reasons are why I moved away from the Right many years ago (in my teens), so I am definitely not moving rightward again by any means as they have not improved.

It’s merely that the left has gotten worse, and is worsening at a quickening pace.

The problem is that I believe that the world has changed enough that no one has any cohesive program of thought to comprehend and contextualize the enormous alterations we’ve already experienced and the yet-larger ones to come. I don’t have it, and I think about it all the time, nearly every waking hour. Pundits certainly have nothing. The left has less than nothing.

We need new minds, new voices (in the Jaynesian sense), new conceptions, a derivation of an autochthonous quintessence and an unconditional revision of the certain. Despite that nearly no one cares what I think, I am working on this. As you all know, I’d rather be right than applauded.

Here’s to our new minds. I’m trying to build one. It’s no easy task.