The decline of America's human capital is not pretty. And, indeed, there is something sad about a crusade for individual liberty over the right to waddle down the street slurping sickly sweet children's drinks out of giant plastic cups with oversized straws, as poignant an image of societal infantilization as anything.'Societal infantilization', as always Steyn's grasp of the decline in Western culture is summed up perfectly by a disturbing metaphor.
"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” C. S. Lewis
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Suck on that!
It has been said that when America sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold...something to look forward to:
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