What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything.
Let us begin..
There is no retreat, but take courage--we have our map.
The great division is between those who place all their hope in the present life and those who know that we are pilgrims.
We must love this world, but we have here no abiding city.
We must insist that the Constitution is not whatever judges say it is, complying with but not obeying their edicts while we reclaim our freedom of religion one outdoor procession, one public lecture, one parish picnic at a time.
The gigantic scale of government has made us a nation of "idiots," incapable of attending to public affairs and the common good.
We must restore play to human life, seeing all the other days of the week in light of the Sabbath.
Instead of playing we "work out." A genuine civilization is based on celebration.
We have turned sports into a job for our children.
And we must dispense with the "rent-seekers"--the proliferating middlemen whose own work contributes nothing.
We must rediscover how to make things that are beautiful and lasting--the products of human work.
In our servile economy, we raise bureaucrats not craftsmen.
We must restore manhood and womanhood.
The modern world has made itself ignorant about sex--in particular that there are two of them and they\'re profoundly different.
Repudiating the Sexual Revolution, that prodigious engine of misery, requires more than zipping up.
We have to support these efforts as if our children\'s souls depended on it.
In fact, this is already being done.
A few can be saved, but for the most part, we must build new ones.
Our universities are as bad as our schools.
Public schools are beyond reform; we have to start over.
There are two things wrong with our schools--everything our children don\'t learn in them, and everything they do learn.
We must restore beauty--in art, architecture, music, and worship.
Our Culture produces only the drab or the garish.
We have to recognize the lies and clear our minds of cant.
America\'s most powerful institutions--including the government--are mass producers of deceit.
The first step is the restoration of truth.
There is work to be done.
We have to assess the damage, but merely lamenting it does no good.
Our sickly, sub-pagan state resembles a bombed-out city.
Providence College professor Anthony Esolen, blunt and prophetic, makes the case that the decay of Western civilization is alarmingly advanced.
This is a book about how to get started.
What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything
