Progressives and secularists have gone out of their way to debase Judeo/Christian religious teachings that long ago espoused community values and continue to espouse, today
David Brooks recently wrote in the New York Times about how the millennials turn to community and away from autonomy. There is a possibility, he wrote, that “our culture is built on some fundamental error about what makes people happy.” He was taken by the words of Sebastian Junger who wrote about native culture in his book “Tribe.” Natives from colonial times were more communal. Junger wrote “They would have practiced extremely close and involved child care. And they would have done almost everything in the company of others. They would have almost never been alone.” h
Brooks concluded that it wouldn’t surprise him if in the coming decades there would be “an end to the apotheosis of freedom; more people making the modern equivalent of the Native American leap” (community).
