I think it evident to anyone that we are in the middle of a real “cultural war,” that is, a vigorous, often vicious, mostly angry, take-no-prisoners struggle for what is left of the American country we received as a legacy from our ancestors. And by and large our side is losing. On almost every front we face nearly insuperable, multifaceted challenges and assaults—in education and our disastrous educational system, in our entertainment and leisure pursuits, in our families, in our politics, and in the very foundations of our religious faith and traditions. It is, very simply, impossible to avoid this war; wherever we go, whatever we do, we meet its advance guards, its forward panzer units. We cannot attend church, or go to a PTA meeting, or view nightly television news (or prime time TV programs) or a football game to root for our favorite team—we cannot take a vacation, drop into the local Target store, visit our physicians, or even entertain guests—without it intruding in some way into our lives.
Each morning as I get up early—usually around 6 a.m.—I switch on the local news and weather just enough to know what’s going on. But, usually after fifteen or twenty minutes, my mind bogged down in and cluttered with the heavy dross of mounting barbarities and widespread insanity, I switch over to a Sirius music channel, usually to have some classical music in the background as I begin my day in earnest. Perhaps later in the day, I’ll catch a classic old Western on Encore Westerns, or something on Youtube, if I have the time.
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