Comments from Rod Dreher at the article:
If the West is going to endure, it will have to return to its ancestral faith, Christianity, and do so in a serious, sustained way. I believe that it will, but not soon. The future of the West depends on the faithful, on those who really live the religious life, not just play at it. I believe that Orthodoxy will have a role to play in this revival. But the revival will come, one way or another.
Is this the fundamental answer to what is going on in the world today? A return to or ancestral faith? This seems correct to me. Judeo/Christian principles have nurtured the civil societies of Western Man and promoted freedom.