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Authority and the Sacred
- Authority ultimately grounds itself in the sacred.
- Shared sacred beliefs allow deference to authority across individual or tribal interests.
Loss of Unifying Narratives
- Metanarratives, like resisting communism or Nazism, once unified people with a sense of shared purpose.
- These narratives acted as sacred unifying forces.
Three Responses to Meaning Crisis
- The meaning crisis manifests in three ways: collapsing from burnout, seeking new sacred objects (e.g., MCU), and pursuing wisdom/virtue.
- People are responding to the meaning crisis with desperation, protective conservatism, or forward-looking hope for the sacred.