Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

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Introduction.

One of the most marked features of our current cultural crack-up has been the disintegration

of public trust when it comes to many of our central institutions.

The collapse of trust has been massive and has occurred with regard to many areas of

our public life together, and it is worth asking whether there is any recovery possible.

And so that is what I want to address here, is recovery actually possible.

We would be hard pressed to name an institution that has not been affected by what has happened

to us over the last two years, the military, public health officials, the media, the medical

establishment, election officials, the universities, law enforcement, intelligence agencies,

the judicial confirmation process, Big Eva, conservative ink, your local church that

you used to think was sound and stalwart.

That last one has actually been the great grief and disappointment.

And I'm talking about something far greater than the kind of thing we've always budgeted

for.

When dealing with any large institution, there's always been exasperating bureaucratic

snarls and tedious delays in various screw-ups.

No, we are dealing with something far beyond all that.

We are talking about a massive realization on the part of a very large number of people,

and that realization is that our institutions are diseased and fatally corrupt.

The bottom has fallen out and the bucket won't hold anything anymore.

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