The Arena Culture

This is the fourth paragraph in the "New York Times" article about our "Arena Culture." The whole article is rather interesting, and it has implications for writers, poets, and other groups in terms of what we write about and where we find meaning in our lives. You can find the article online below the next paragraph.

"For the past hundred years, we have lived in a secular age. That does not mean that people aren’t religious. It means there’s no shared set of values we all absorb as preconscious assumptions. In our world, individuals have to find or create their own meaning."


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion