Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal (July 15, 2011) wrote of our cultural ignorance and dislocation:
Pretty much everyone over 50 in America feels on some level like a refugee … And they fear, deep down, that this new culture, the one their children live in, isn’t going to make it. Because it is, in its essence, an assaultive culture, from the pop music coming out of the rental car radio to the TSA agent with her hands on your kid’s buttocks … In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because being a parent is hard … But in the old America you knew it wasn’t so bad, because the culture could bring the kids up. Inadequate parents could sort of say, “Go outside and play in the culture,” and culture — relatively innocent, and boring — could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up … Grown up now know that you can’t send the kids to go out and play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.
Agree? Disagree?
Bright, shiny objects! 
Totally agree…
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disagree. what we fear, we become. what we love, we become.
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I hear you, but I don’t think it’s about that. I think this is about the consequences of so much inauthentic living and how it has affected society and culture as a whole…
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My response, that I disagree, is based on what I see as a fear based way of being (from my own experience). What we fear, we avoid. We judge what is different as a way of avoiding the waiting gift inherent in whatever is different. Hence inauthenticity. We all have fear of something(s). If we face our fear, to see what is seeking to be seen, then change occurs within and is then projected positively (love). Thanks for the opportunity to offer comment. ;)
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I appreciate the dialogue…
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;)
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