32. When Niche Ideas Become Widespread Directives

In this episode we look at the point where the niche ideas of the elite expand into mainstream directives to such a degree that there is no going back. This is a turning point in the Western world.

We can't fully understand our own context until we appreciate the turn where rationality was no longer optional, and goods such as freedom, life, prosperity, peace, and mutual benefit start to be pursued for their own sake, no longer in reference to and increasingly in opposition to Orthodox Christianity.

References:

-Pages of A Secular Age, Charles Taylor: (259-269)