Chapel Perilous

"There seems like a national global well, to me, if chapel perilous is sort of this place where the old ways are starting to crumble and no longer have meaning," he says. "I think that when trust in the old authorities decay, decays, you know, some people are going to look for substitute certainties ... I think what the hell is going on over there? Yeah, it certainly seems to be happening in politics right now." The author's problem with the horseshoe metaphor is that it's too linear.