With all the shame and self loathing going around in the west today from colonialism to environmental degradation to toxic masculinity it is easy to forget the value and the purpose and, yes, the success of Western Civilization.  There is a cosmonomic view of our history and our special purpose I will remind us of today.

Today, I’m sitting in a Starbuck’s in downtown Chicago.  It’s daytime so the thin veneer of what remains of western civilization is thicker with the light of day.  At night, or with the force of an organized mob, there are only the rules Hobbes, Darwin or Nietzsche explored.  I’m in the “The City that Works”….sometimes. With a limp.