The shared narrative Americans had through the 1950s has disintegrated. A stable society needs a common god. I think Trump, whether deliberately or not, is trying to bring that back by returning American idealism.

If you’ve read Neil Postman, he talks a lot about why public schooling makes no sense anymore. At least without a shared narrative or a common god that provides meaning to the question, “what are we even doing here?”

Kids in schools today are in a system that can’t tell them what the greater mission is except, so you can join a market economy. A market economy makes a poor god.

As Postman says, schools don’t serve the public, they create the public. In the United States, we’ve lost the pursuance of virtues and knowledge that a kid can aspire to because he know doesn’t where he’s supposed to go.

If Trump, can stoke the flames that bring a resurgence of Americanism, I think that’s a good thing. My only caveat is that I think it should be based upon transparency and truth. A pride in our culture, our land, our freedom, our history, our people, is a good thing, but it should not be uninformed and ignorant.

This is where the Bitcoin ethos can help.

Imagine celebrating with your neighbors the best of American idealism COMBINED with a government that can invite the inspection of its citizens with alacrity.

That is a vision of paradise I’m willing to fight for in the here and now.

This does not contradict my beliefs as Christian. Jesus is still and will be King forevermore. I will still share the Gospel and speak out against sin.

But the project of running a civil society must allow for people to be free to choose that on their own to choose and act in their own self-interest so long as it doesn’t violate the safety and property of another.

People need a shared narrative to give them meaning. If a civilization goes without it for too long, it will crumble.