I strongly agree with L3. Politics will not be favorable to us for at least another 7 years. Oh yes, we can nibble at the congressional majorities. But Obama will manage to get reelected. We can’t count on Iran to hand us another hostage crisis and AQ is too clever to attack before November 2012. And it is probable that the inflation-deflation deadlock will not be broken before that election either.

But we still have the world of ideas and the general culture to work within. BC is a great gift as a cauldron for the incubation of and the refinement of ideas. But as W said a few posts ago, if it is not taken beyond BC and eventually turned from words to actions, it will be of little avail.

Whether elections go against us in the next few cycles (2010, 2012, even 2014) we must still work on ideas and culture. Have you noticed how many of the films scheduled for release over the next few months have to do with subjects like the soul, destiny, even God? So I will not despair if politics take a while to change. The culture is in peril but not yet lost completely.