Culture is a broad name for the realm of interpersonal feeling, and our way of coming to self-knowledge through relating to others. In all societies to date it has depended on a bedrock of religious faith, or at least on a sense of the sacred and of the observant presence of the gods. We lack that bedrock; but the fact that we are adrift doesn’t mean that we should eat each other like shipwrecked sailors. We should find the path back to the decencies, and that is what culture can offer us.