Thank you for this generally insightful assessment of the emptiness of this supposed meta modern “oscillation” idea as a kind of self-indulgent intellectual consumerism.

The big challenge for all of us today is how to reckon with the now inescapable recognition that the very successes of our humanistic optimism—our global industrial civilization and consumer society—have destroyed our collective future because in our intoxication with “prosperity” we overlooked one obvious fac