The evidence is mounting that 2023 will spell the end of twin plagues of our time, COVID-19 and wokeness.
The physical disease that killed more than 1 million Americans has subsided into a status like the seasonal flu in the U.S....
The cultural disease that is CRT and wokeness, will start to subside, as well....
...I would suggest that the key for doing this can be found in the virtues that brought the first Europeans to the shores of North America, despite the risks and uncertainties — namely the Vikings. The virtues that sustained those intrepid explorers, traders and settlers, in the world’s most dangerous waters, are precisely the ones Americans will rediscover in 2023.
First, the spirit of entrepreneurship, which led the Vikings to venture out and roam around the world, and brought Leif Erikson and his family to North America, and other Vikings as far as the Black Sea and Baghdad....
...Second, the instinct of workmanship, which Norwegian-American sociologist Thorstein Veblen defined 100 years ago as the human instinct to constantly improve and perfect the things we make. That characterized Viking culture when it came to making a ship, a sword, a farm.
Third, commitment to family, community and nation: given the harsh conditions in which they chose to live, the Vikings found that solidarity and loyalty to family and community were essential to survival. That’s truer today than ever where our ties to family and local communities — what Edmund Burke called life’s "little platoons" — are the perfect antidote to the social distancing and isolation that COVID-19 and lockdowns imposed....
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