The world’s in a bad way, but if we want to turn things around things really aren’t so complicated:
- Live rightly. You can’t turn the world around unless you can offer the world something worth turning toward.
- Value the good, beautiful and true more than success. You don’t win on basic issues unless you value something more than victory, and have something for which you would accept defeat, suffering and ignominy.
- Question liberal modernity. Insist on its contradictions, and point that the things it values can be realized only imperfectly, and only in a social order that is not fundamentally liberal but values other things more.
Nothing’s guaranteed, of course. What we’re offered is not a chance to get our own way but an opportunity to live rightly, and it’s important to see that the two are different.