As survivors of MacIntyre's moral
catastrophe emerge from their Stone Age moral habitats, they will presumably cobble together Aristotle, the New Testament, and Thomas Aquinas to establish a new order of civility» and we will find again a coherent moral order.
As the literary historian Houston A. Baker writes, the blues
emerged from a matrix of «These include a grappling with personal and social
catastrophe; an emphasis on improvisation and movement; the performance of extravagant or ambiguous identities; modes of abstraction and repetition; the expression of sexuality and intimacy; and an impulse towards archiving, sampling, and translation.