Dear America, 

Before reading, I recommend quickly learning what the Japanese word “kaizen” means and how it is applied in industry. The definition is ubiquitous, so it will be easy to find. Use those fancy AI tools!

Today, I am revisiting a concept I introduced in the preface to these letters, which was entitled “One Plus Many Realities.” Therein, I juxtaposed two worldviews: Christian (represented by CuRe) and Postmodern (which sufficiently represents all others). My argument was that the realities experienced through those worldviews are increasingly, and perhaps irreparably, divergent. I also posed three questions: 

• Do we put aside the culture war and talk to each other to seek a new path forward together? 
• Do we physically fight it out until one reality wins or wait it out until one disappears? 
• Do we let the culture war continue until our systems fail? 

My answers to these questions are contained in the ten conclusions outlined below. I have drawn these from our journey thus far. 

1. Humanity has always participated and will continue to participate, until the end of time, in a spiritual war between good and evil.
   
   
2. Human societies are always engaged in a culture war that determines the predominant views of an era or generation.
   
   This is natural. But in America, the culture war is bound to the American System and must remain aimed at the American Cause and Destination outlined in the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, Foucault and the Postmodernists explain culture war differently, claiming it exists solely to enable shifts in power structures and arbitrary norms (not morals) that rest on a foundation of man or nature as “God.”
   
   
3. The American Founders, who were highly attuned to the spiritual war, designed the American System to use the culture war as fuel for the engine of progress. They understood that respecting one “voice” exclusively in such a large and diverse nation leads only to stagnation and resentment.
   
   For this reason, I believe that Donald Trump—unless he has done something extralegal, which I am not aware he has and would want proof regarding—has stayed inbounds while waging his very effective counterrevolution against the Progressive project in America. He is brash, crude, and confrontational; he intuitively understands our system; and he is highly effective within it. What strikes me hardest is that Postmodernists decry him as promoting a false view of reality when they do not believe in absolute truth. Which one is it?
   
   
4. The culture war has been toxified and, even though it still fuels the engine of the American System, the result has been poor performance.
   
   Further, We the People were in the past more aligned in our understanding of the American Cause and Destination. We also held the common belief that Providence would buoy us as we fulfilled our earthly roles virtuously and that our rights would be protected by a well-ordered government appointed through us (the American System).
   
   
5. There are evil forces (anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Christian) who have been working to disrupt the American System’s performance; break its component parts to disrupt its operation; and degrade its fuel (We the People and our polite culture war). They have also successfully divided us in our purpose and/or made us doubt we have a purpose at all.
   
   These villains are dispersed and elusive, because they manifest irrespective of geographies both as the mob and as subverted vocations (e.g., press as propaganda, education as indoctrination, governance as domination, and the churches as silent and timid observers in the best case). Yet, while they can be difficult to spot, the outcomes they invariably celebrate and the causes they promote belie their politely articulated intentions. Sadly, many of their victims recognize their true nature far too late to dodge the fatal blow.
   
   In CuRe All Letter No. 1, I wrote the following: “Every single news outlet is biased. But not in the way we normally think… They’re biased toward turning a profit. Money will always rule the day with the media, no matter what government sits next to or behind it. In my lifetime, the establishment media has basically been an arm of the Democratic National Convention. Why? Are the executives ideologues? Maybe. But the real reason is that it has been profitable. And now that tide is turning.”
   
   The tide may be turning, but I admit that I misjudged how ideological some folks in the media are (commentator to c-suite). They, the mouthpieces and benefactors of the anti-American Cause, are also increasingly overt and aggressive. Worse yet, the mob is incensed and dangerously receptive to their rallying call.
   
   
6. The evil forces attacked our culture by hijacking the American Progressive movement to twist the culture war into a class war and a series of subcultural rebellions against American tradition, as well as a holy war against Christianity. These revolutionary movements reached a fever pitch in the 2010s.
   
   Before anyone rejects these claims, consider that the default position our youths are taught from K-to-PhD is that America is evil and a bad actor on the world stage. Further, they are indoctrinated in Scientism, which effectively posits that scientific theories of Uniformitarianism (billions of years), Darwinist Evolution, etc., explain the truth and meaning of everything.
   
   What is this if not a direct subversion of and attack upon American culture and Christian faith? Why does the American Progressive movement want everyone to consider science and Christianity as adversaries, when the greatest scientists of the Enlightenment were devout Christians? Why is it verboten for our schools to teach valid alternative scientific interpretations of the data and information available today? How can we say we have freedom of speech when we are educated by the government from the age of five or younger to ensure all our speech fits one paradigm?
   
   
7. The American Progressive movement is not inherently bad, but it has become tainted by nihilism, hedonism, and violent atheism.
   
   What I mean is that using the federal government to benefit We the People does not necessarily equate to Marxism or its secularized cousin, socialism. Similarly, the conservative (or, perhaps, restorationist) response to corrupted Progressivism embodied by MAGA is not some fascist monstrosity. I sometimes wonder, were the policy intent of Theodore Roosevelt and Donald Trump juxtaposed, how different they would really be.
   
   
8. We the People must educate ourselves about the causes and effects of the culture war’s toxification and the erosion of the American System and American Culture. Of course, part of educating ourselves is the open sharing of ideas in a free public square.
   
   There is a reason the First Amendment first lists freedom of religion, then speech, then press, then assembly, then petition. They flow from each other. Educate yourself first, then speak, then publish, then assemble, then advocate.
   
   Perhaps rivaled by only a few similarly dark times in our history, the First Amendment was shredded by the COVID-era policies of the Biden administration, which were enforced against the backdrop of violent riots not protected by the First Amendment. 
   
   
9. American Cultural Restorationism (CuRe) wants to help rebalance the culture war and reset the American System to a high performing state by focusing on the American Culture itself and not its politics inherently, although those things are inextricably linked.
   
   
10. To recontextualize our Founding for the current era, we also need to look to the future and discuss longer term solutions to the unique challenges we face (most notably immigration, AI, and China). Our goal in doing so is for We the People to identify ways we can thrive in a new era by bolstering the American System and American Culture. 

I believe the three questions I posed in “One Plus Many Realities” have a single answer: Yes, Christians and Postmodernists can coexist, but only if We the People all dedicate ourselves to: (a) collaborating and prioritizing traditional American beliefs and the progress of our nation and people; and (b) no longer suppressing and destroying each other’s worldview via our governmental systems. To coexist, we need to learn each other’s worldview—nominal acceptance without action is meaningless emotional nonsense. 

I think MAGA is a warning. In my lifetime, “Progressives” have been more aggressive and most successful in winning. But conservatives have finally joined the battle. Now, anything one side does will be done to them with cold reciprocity. Any new precedent established, law subverted, or loophole exploited will be used in retaliation and to great effect. 

In this, I think we can find one key difference between MAGA and CuRe. MAGA seeks to defeat the Progressive project and return America to a path of peace, prosperity, power, and hope. CuRe seeks to restore American culture from the bottom up (starting with We the People) and move forward in unity, in a way that we have never truly been able to do since the time of our Founding. 

While I am not particularly fond of the slippery slope potential in this tit for tat game—from gerrymandering to cancel culture—I respect the necessity of it in terms of rebalancing the culture war and setting the stage for American cultural healing. I also admit how precarious our nation’s situation is, as the sparks of our very hot culture war descend towards the powder keg of our nation’s frustrated and anxious people. 

I believe now is a time for us all to stay quietly resolved, read, listen, and learn. In unity, We the People do not need those who would divide us. Neither do we need to fight them and invite catastrophe. We can simply, in the continuous improvement spirit of Kaizen, build a bright future and ignore them into oblivion. 

Let’s wish for that happy day together, America, 

Finch Fries