Ross Douthat’s recent “Age of Extinction” column is vital:
This isn’t just a normal churn where travel agencies go out of business or Netflix replaces the VCR. Everything that we take for granted is entering into the bottleneck. And for anything that you care about — from your nation to your worldview to your favorite art form to your family — the key challenge of the 21st century is making sure that it’s still there on the other side.
It’s also a neat summation of what I am trying to do on The Homebound Symphony and in my other writings. I hope to have more to say about it soon.