The 20th century has been in full flight from certain conceptions of individual morality, but what age has always suffered from so acute an awareness of collective responsibility? Who shall absolve us from the guilt of the Holocaust? Colonialism? The Enlightenment? The failure of the Enlightenment? Who could absolve us from the guilt of a atomic catastrophe? The appalling moral anxiousness of our age is an oblique designation that the human being as specified waits to hear something; and erstwhile we have collectively denied the anticipation of proceeding something from beyond our corporate culture, we exposure ourselves to deep worries about our humanness.
Rowan Williams, Open to Judgement
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