REALISM IN MIND, IDEALISM IN ACTION

Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” That is where we are today. Western societies are growing increasingly divided. These fractures trace ideological, religious, cultural, color, and political lines. The root cause of this tension is a misunderstanding of what it means to be a human person. We think of “who” we are, but we fail to know “what” we are first. And where there is not a unity of human diversity, there can only be a disunity of it. Destruction, not flourishing. Chaos, not order. In other words, we are in trouble because we know some things for sure that just are not so, and it is causing our polarization, disunity, and decay. And even where it does not cause unrest, it nevertheless prevents flourishing. That is what Flume has come into existence to tend to.

Flume is a knowledge-based social enterprise that works to help the West heal its many divisions; to foster a dignified understanding of the human person in the public square; and to cultivate the good, true, and beautiful in all areas of culture. Moreover, Flume exists not just to get rid of our problems, but to actually cultivate unity, redemption, and human flourishing as we go through them.

Or simply, Flume exists for humanity.