I am too bewildered by your premodern challenges

From Goodnight, California by Victor Davis Hanson. An extended lament about government's capacity to focus on the absurd, trivial and ideological as opposed to seeking to address real problems being suffered by real citizens.

The governance philosophy of the political elite which extends beyond California:

I am too bewildered by your premodern challenges, so I will take psychological refuge in my postmodern fantasies.