“We Prioritize The Distant Over The Proximate.”

Here’s a couple of good paragraphs to consider.

I believe this is the last New York Times column for this author — she’s headed elsewhere, to do something or the other.

My hope for American discourse

Here are three good paragraphs from that article:

Modernity, he thought, was exhausting itself. Humanity could not “carry on any longer merely on the surface, a purely external life”; we must either “go deep or peter out altogether.” This deepening requires times of interiority, contemplation, rigor, invisibility, time with the inside of holy things.

There is also a tendency in our moment to prioritize the distant over the proximate and the big over the small. We can seek to have all the right political opinions and still not…