Outstanding recommendation. You are so right, we each, under the Constitution have an obligation as citizens to be engaged, more than just vote or put bumper stickers on our vehicles, but get invovled with the political process.

It would be amazing to find any of our senior leaders today having read the Consolation, and if they did, would be abide?

Don

Like Noah, we might consider how each of us might build an arc.

One place to start is Boethius’ Consolation of Philosphy. An educated, post-Imperial Roman, Boethius served in the court of Theodoric until he was falsely accused of a crime by his political rivals. So he was imprisoned and then bludgeoned to death.

He wrote his Consolation while in prison awaiting his fate.

In it, Dame Fortune appears to him and explains the caprice of random chance. The term, “wheel of fortune,” comes from the Consolation.

For a thousand years, the Consolation was part of the Western canon. All educated men knew it. It was, really, about the time of Westphalia that it fell in obscurity. As the post-Westphalian world decays – which is really the root cause of the crisis you describe – pre-Westphalian culture will reassert itself.

A Boethius revival would be part of this.