Welcome back to Young Heretics, where today I would like to discuss what on earth we are going to do about

any of this. And when I gesture vaguely and say any of this, I mean all of the stuff that we've been talking about for

three weeks now.

This is the third part of a three-part series on

our present crisis and what the appropriate response is. So just to recap right we had an episode about

civil disobedience in the name of religious principle. It was non-violent and I was in support of it, right?

I argued that there's long tradition going back to Antigone and Aquinas and Augustine and Martin Luther King of thinking through these things and developing

principles for when and how to

to resist government power in the name of your principles. I then did an episode we talked about armed

revolution and rebellion and I was against it, right? In this case I was arguing that in fact it is not time to take up arms against

the government and that the

cases in which it is time for that are extremely grave and serious and not anywhere near us yet. Thank God.

Now though I think it's kind of beholden to I owe you some answers on what are we supposed to do and I've been hinting on that

for a while now, but I want to really like drill down into it because the word that is going to occur

right every time I start talking about this stuff to people is localism, right?

It's kind of a buzzword of politics. People talk about local government and localism as a philosophy of what the best way to

accomplish change is.

But I think that's like too easy. It's too easy to just have a buzzword and leave it at that. We'll talk about the history of this idea and the theory of it and philosophy.

And we have to talk about how it's supposed to answer these big problems, right?

Because the whole the enemy here is despair, right?

We are as conservatives kind of always fighting against despair because we know that the world is broken and we know that things fall apart and

we know that the fight that we are fighting is ultimately in this world going to be a losing fight over and over again.

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