The Rise of Ideologies and Critical Theories in Public Discourse

I think 9-11 is something of a watershed in America for the relationship of religion in general to the public square. Technology has massively liquefied where we locate our identity. We see national identities being watered down. And also with critical theory, while the jargon is rebarbative and often hard to understand, the ideas are pretty simple and they play to modern priorities. It's all about power and victimhood. These are simple ideas that appeal to the common sense virtues of the modern person. But I'm like you. If you told me that I regard gender theory as the least plausible branch of continental philosophy, but yet it's the one that has come even more than critical race theory