Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation