"In moments of despair it had occurred to me that there was something of a medieval Dark Age about the current mood: Extinction Rebellion with its child saints and the self-flagellating Woke culture. Being given an apparently sound reason to disable the most notable manifestations of that historical tradition which we are now being encouraged to denounce: what could be better suited to the weird, vaguely hysterical, fashion of the times? Fear may be the most dangerous contagion but I am coming around to the view that this is not simple fear. It is a mass neurosis of which irrational and prolonged anxiety is a symptom: a corrosive loss of confidence and understanding of one’s role and identity which will, if it prevails, ultimately undermine the quality of modern life more irrevocably than any virus.
It is not only our official cultural institutions that are at risk here. One of the most fundamental principles of post-war liberal democracy is on trial – or, at least, coming up for examination." The Telegraph
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Yes, I know. I am becoming even more boring about this, but Daly has her finger on the essence of the matter. The call to wokeness is a siren song enlisting neurotic adherence to a cause that demands rejection of the world as we have known it and the creation of a utopian cult that does not know its own creed. That remains to emerge when the putative victors in the struggle for a woke world fall upon each other for control. What would President Bidoharris do in such a circumstance? IMO they would cave in and the street fanatics would rule a barren landscape that was once a prosperous and well run country. pl
I'm tired of all the uproar, the "he said, she said," the posturing about who is more righteeous.
I long for the days when news was not in our faces every day on the "Tee Vee." I blame television and Google for cluttering everyone's minds with sensationalism while spreading the idiotic ideas of college professors and graduate students who teach undergrad classes. I've been accused of being a Luddite since I do not have and never did have a Facebook page.
There is a reason so many people I know are now not encouraging their children to attend college. And if they allow them to attend college, they make sure the college is a Christian college. There is a reason now that home schooling and charter schools and schools of choice are gaining popularity, as well as occupational training.
I hope with all the hope I can muster during this strange time that my grandchildren will be able to grow up and live in sane times. I will encourage their parents to send my grandchildren to occupational courses or to learn to work by hiring on and growing in a hands-on occupation.
Until we reform our colleges and universities of the children of the flower children and those who played in the mud at Woodstock, our country will not be able to return to its founding ideals.
I did attend college during the time of the flower children and the hippies, but I was too busy working 20 to 25 hours a week while take a full load of classes and having to maintain an A- / B+ average to maintain my scholarship. I was lucky not to major in a program that at the time allowed or encouraged politicizing the subject matter that was being covered.
I am hoping against all hope that "the times they are a' changing" again (but in reverse direction).
Posted by: Diana Croissant | 05 September 2020 at 12:05 PM