Nature abhors a vacuum is a truism that applies to intellectual and moral laziness as much as anywhere else. If one doesn’t grok a problem, especially a problem that has pervasive implications, one will definitely suffer as a consequence. One will imagine all kinds of things, nilly-willy, as a result and as a substitute for clear analysis. We live in a perilous time in which Orwellian shit-fuckery has massively compromised our social and political environment, and which no one can afford to ignore.
That the problem of our time is essentially a spiritual problem is entirely correct, but this belief is of dubious worth unless one is prepared to act upon it appropriately. 9/11 gave rise to a raging Islamophobia that has resulted since that time in a permanent ongoing national train wreck. This is brought clearly into focus by the non-stop Terror Wars culminating in the Palestinian genocide and the War Against Iran, as the only nation (apart from Yemen) willing to oppose US and Israeli collusion in that genocide.
The past 25 years as a permanent ongoing train wreck is entirely based on Islamophobia on the one hand and the embrace of Israel/Zionism on the other hand in the interest of the militarized corporate state. This is fascism!
This is indeed a tremendously spiritual problem as well as a text book case of fascism, but which after 25 years remains broadly undiagnosed as such. This incapacity to grok what is obviously a total collapse in national political morality is a breathtaking tragedy becaue it guarantees that it will continue.
