# The Full-Scale Unraveling of Western Cultural Norms  ## Metadata - Author: [[US]] - Full Title: The Full-Scale Unraveling of Western Cultural Norms - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-full-scale-unraveling-of-western-cultural-norms/ ## Highlights - The rise of secularism, which gave the world tolerance and political freedom, also launched it on a trajectory that led to communism and fascism. Those have mutated in turn into a form of cultural totalitarianism based on the tyranny of the individual, the eclipse of objective truth by subjective feelings and the destruction of attachments to a particular culture by the doctrine of universal values.