But it is unlikely they will find the solution in religion or spirituality because first they have to understand the roots of their discomfort. And, with few exceptions, these roots lie in the society they have created and participate in. Unless they uproot the old roots and create new ones, all the religious exhortation in the world will not succor them.
This certainly sounds like an End of Times sermon from a fundamentalist deploring the depravity of modern culture and frankly I don’t see how this is much different from the concept of Original Sin. True, it doesn’t quite accuse humans of being innately sinful or evil. But it DOES, by exclusion, pretty much absolve culture, politics and the social sphere from any responsibility any for RESCUING society.
Materialism is not an inherited trait.
