“A NATION OF TODDLERS”
We’ve never read The Jagged Word before. Or if we have, we’ve forgotten about it …
Apparently it’s a Lutheran website (no … not those Lutherans) which addresses issues within the church as well as issues in which the church finds itself embroiled.
You know, like the ongoing unspooling of the professional left.
“While it’s been coming for some time, we have finally become a nation that reacts to everything with hysteria, much like a toddler,” one of the website’s contributors, Joel Hess, noted. “Instead of waiting for all the facts, carefully digesting them all, and considering for a moment that an event or person is not 100 percent evil, we like to jump out the window with inflamed accusations, speeches, and marches!”
Hess continued …
… social media has transformed us all into miniature actors and politicians, projecting propaganda-like images of ourselves as we want people to see us and posting one-liner political positions on everything from autism and vaccines to our expertise on immigration.
Some like to blame this elevation of hysteria on Trump. But he is just the hysterical reaction of Middle America toward the professional hysteria of Hollywood and Washington. Both sides seem unable to do or talk about anything without being completely red-faced hysterical.
Hess’ column – which doesn’t distinguish between hysteria on the left or the right – goes on to trace the “speedy decline of Western civilization in her once proud prodigy, America.”
Using a nifty analogy from Hollywood, ironically.
“Like Brad Pitt in that ridiculous movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, America has not grown in wisdom and age, but the reverse,” he notes. “In the beginning, we were the strong, mighty thirty-something. The country was young enough to have great new ideas, yet old enough to be wise and calculating.”
Reversing, in other words … not unlike our economy.
You can read the rest of the piece here, but it’s an excellent commentary from a unique perspective …
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