As Good To Know But Not To Use goes to publication, Kabul is falling to steely-eyed pre-Enlightenment warlords. Washington D.C., having already fallen to feckless post-Enlightenment warriors of a different sort, has shown itself clueless about how to respond when pre-Enlightenment reality slaps it down. Whether the hordes at the gates are pre or post-Enlightenment, a festering crisis of civilization has been brought to a head by the elections of 2016 and 2020.
Good To Know But Not To Use is an account of America in crisis, of good intentions gone awry, of decent people and civil society split by an intelligentsia in thrall to a Critical Theory/Deconstructionist complex pursuing a post-Enlightenment vision. It’s a plea to reject identity consciousness, a mode of thought natural to pre and post-Enlightenment sensibilities but fatal to the Enlightenment principles which have freed the world from soul crushing poverty and oppression. It’s a call, in other words, to rediscover America.