The inner life has disappeared.

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Here is Richard Fernandez, available at PJMedia:
One of the key themes of collapse is the loss of cultural identity. Focusing on the West, it appears that the interior life of that civilization has disappeared. Good and evil are now determined by external factors like ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, power dynamics or class and not by inner choice. The ideology of victimhood is universal and the road to salvation lies no longer within one’s individual power but through public entitlement. The Western man’s relationship with the world and consequently himself has been radically redefined from a position where he once existed as special in the eyes of the universe, was accounted and therefore accountable and consequently possessed agency, to an absurd plaything of absurd fate where everything that happens to him is someone else’s fault; now the ultimate nothing, the eternal victim.

In the Christian view, now denounced as delusion, one could stop despairing and start living. With salvation assured. one was free to look around.