Are You Doing the Right Thing?

Cornel West: I've been considering for a while that materialism, rationalism and post-enlightenment values have led inexorably even if inadvertently to a state of nihilism such as you describe. It is very difficult with populations of scale to instantiate a centralized set of values, ethics and meaning. And it appears with this divisiveness that I feel that somehow the culture is benefiting from has become worse and worse in recent years. How do you think we have to frame the conversation both for people on the neo-liberal establishment left, but also for people that identify with patriotism and what are recalled these days right-wing politics? We can overcome and not only accept but