This age craves a Lincoln-like figure, who can steer the country through intense polarization

Whether by melancholia or meditation, the leader needs to discern truth through aloneness, while still heeding the crowds (or the group chats)

I worry, though, that we lack the spiritual infrastructure to allow such a leader to emerge

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

I read "spiritual infrastructure" and think "a majority of Americans need to hold the same values"

this was true for a couple of centuries, but it'll never be true again

seeker /native /believein /bedrock 🇵🇸

Hard times will make everyone hold the same value: heal