Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard argues that western societies are sawing off the branches that they’re sitting on.

Our civilization is the product of restraint, where we channel impulses toward higher aims. Ideas, norms and customs that have been refined, and improved upon, standing the test of time.

In the 20th century, we began to give the pursuit of raw instincts full rein, celebrating the pursuit of limitless desire as a supreme ideal. We are now paying the consequences in an atomized society of lonely individuals.

Happiness is found, on the contrary, in mutual obligation and service, deep bonds of friendship, family and nation, and the pursuit of higher, transcendent ideals.

Join us September 22nd at the Albany Club in Toronto for a discussion of these themes that are the subject of Étienne’s new book.

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