The West has been living inside a single moral story since World War II — a story built to prevent catastrophe by suppressing identity, nationalism, and power. That story is now collapsing, and the fallout is everywhere: culture wars that cut across left and right, former allies who no longer share reality, and arguments that can't be resolved because there's no common framework left to argue inside. This conversation traces how that post-war consensus formed, why Israel became its symbolic pressure point, and what happens when a civilisation loses the story that once held it together.