Two things I read this morning:

Karl Jaspers in 1930:

The old antitheses—the contrasted outlooks known respectively as individualism and socialism, liberal and conservative, revolutionary and reactionary, progressive and reversionary, materialistic and idealistic—are no longer valid, although they are still universally flaunted as banners or used as invectives.

Paul Kingsnorth in 2025 (paraphrasing):

If I’m right, then the “culture war” has been little more than two bald men fighting over a comb.