Welcome, Conversations, that matter, podcast. I am your host John Harris. We are going to talk about a

post I made earlier today. It's going to be a short podcast. I wrote it as I was walking.

And I thought to myself, self, what has been the challenge to

someone's identity? In other words what's caused confusion in people not knowing who they are

because of what the left has been up to and that led me to thinking some things

and it's really more broad than the left, liberals, progressives, whatever term you want to use.

It's more broad than that.

It is the inevitable march of modernity upon individuals.

Taking modernity to its logical conclusions has led to the point we're at and it will lead

farther down this road to perdition.

What do you mean by that, John? What's modernity? Well, it's

hard to define. That's part of the problem. But it's not that leftists aren't

the problem. It's that leftism is a manifestation, an aggressive manifestation of

modernity. And modernity is a, it's really the post-enlightment and most especially the post-industrial

revolution ways of living and thinking that people have engaged in.

Patterns of life that people have now,

assumptions that they make.

It's the assembly line of the mechanistic way of looking at people. The urbanization is part of this. Secularization is

certainly part of this. It is the denial of a world of forms like Plato believed and embracing particulars and when it comes to the individual very

atomized individuals who are free of any obligation of any kind.

And so there's a libertarian free will that's maybe perhaps part of this but and there's so many

different metrics we could use that we could use and look at to say well that's

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