So I wrote last week about the emptiness in our culture and in the hearts of many people

in our culture, which I think is at the root of our current suicide epidemic.

And also it's at the root of pretty much all of our problems in our country.

We have fled from God, we've fled from meaning, we've fled from purpose and we've embraced

this kind of nihilism.

Although we don't call it nihilism, nobody would actually call it that anymore.

We use other words and phrases to kind of soften it up a little bit.

So we'll say things like, you only live once and live your truth and those sorts of things.

But they all mean to communicate a nihilistic perspective on life.

People are told that there's only one life, only one reality.

It has no meaning aside from what you assign to it.

And then the question is, well, what happens when you stop assigning meaning to it?

What happens when you stop finding meaning in it?

Well, our culture says, if you don't assign it, if you don't find it, then it's not there.

Because there is no objective meaning.

It's only what you find.

Now after writing that piece, I was on the plane home from Denver, where I was speaking

at the Western Conservatives Summit, which was a great event, by the way.

And I was reading a collection of Solj and Istan writings, this book right here, which

is a great book, by the way, I'd definitely picked this up.

And I flipped to a speech that he gave in 1993.

This is after I just so happened to write on this subject.

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