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Are secular elements of society any worse now compared to previous eras? Photo by   Bob Coyne   on  Unsplash First posted on Medium . . For over 5 decades we’ve heard how the 1960s was so damaging to American society. There are many reasons to be doubtful of such pronouncements or assessments. The   secular-society-is-more-decadent-then-or-now   narrative is too scripted and trite. The ringing of its supposed truth should even set off a tin-eared bullshit detector. Its dissonance is deafening, and definitely disconcerting.   How were the anti-war demonstrations, riots caused by racists, summers of love, and checking out via LSD of the 1960s worse than the 1930s, when America sat on its isolation ass, and let the Nazis annihilate Jews and destroy Europe?   Americans who quickly discern decadence have never been too aware of human suffering, and barely concern themselves with it. . We went into Vietnam, other Asian nations, Caribbean and Middle East nati...

Making the case for person to person, community to community, democracy with advanced guardrails (an   ideals   algorithm ), and more strategically and comprehensively involving a much larger percentage of Americans. Photo by   Unseen Histories   on   Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . We must unlearn the theories that are distrustful of, or antagonistic towards,   direct democracy , so we are able to survive and thrive, and continue   our experiment   at an unassailable   social distance   from autocracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and dictatorship. That unlearning will also help us shed the rhetorical dilemma, and institutional perception, and indoctrination, of socialism and capitalism that causes so many rifts in our politics. There is an advanced form of direct democracy that does not require a separate economic theory. Citizens and workers decide how our economics will be arranged and our civic interactions will be...