Cultures, like people, have a sense of life, which Ayn Rand once characterized as, “an emotional atmosphere created by its dominant philosophy, by its view of man and of existence,” that “represents a culture’s dominant values and serves as a leitmotif of a given age.”

I needed to look this one up. A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme. The spelling leitmotif is an anglicization of the German Leitmotiv, literally meaning "leading motif", or "guiding motif".The

Consequently, Americans of all stripes feel our society is unraveling before our eyes because we have lost our common culture and our common values. E pluribus unum is little more than an anachronistic slogan—a vestige of a dark time that belongs on the scrap heap of history like so many toppled statues of our now-disgraced forebears.

Until America regains its moral compass, realizes hate is not an argument, and white Americans stop accepting the supposed evils of their whiteness, we will all continue to be stuck in our wounds.

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