Like the Titanic, the American ship-of-state has hit an iceberg, and it is not timely to ask the ship's orchestra for an encore of "America the Beautiful!" A recurring theme in these articles is that the American branch of Western civilization is in a state of complete collapse, and that only a fundamental change in our thinking about the nature and forms of social behavior can reverse our destructive course. I return to this topic not because I enjoy playing Cassandra – the "disaster lobby" is already packed – but because I am unable to count myself among the "ignorance … Continue reading LXXIX – The Dysfunctional Society