This moral decay has been around for a really long time. Ideas have consequences. How’d we get “drag queen story hour,” or boys in girls’ bathrooms, or nearly a million abortions a year, or the trafficking and abuse of children, or the reckless damage to our water, soil, and air? Same.

What if there were a quiet empire, secret agents of the Resurrected Man, a quiet empire that muddled along, often just below the radar, amid the rising and falling of louder empires, of which the USA will certainly someday be one, proposing a countercultural message which over time has led to the end of slavery, rights for all, and the emergence of modern science.