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.

via Alan Jones: Time to Take Another Look at Catholicism.

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