Rich at Sharp Blue is a sharp fellow. So when he writes something, I check it out. He’s posted on the failure of humanism, and I think his words are deserving of attention:
Traditional religion might be losing, but secular humanism is not winning. Instead, conventional religions seem to be largely losing ground to a combination of largely unthinking hedonism and a set of constantly shifting and mutating mystical or spiritual beliefs. Possibly these pseudo-worldviews are gaining ground not just against the old religons but against the scientific, rationalist worldview too.
The reason for this, it seems to me, reduces to meaning…