You know how you go into a fun house? And they shake the floor and spin the walls to cause you to feel unsteady? I think that’s what is happening with the culture right now. When you cause people to feel like they are not on solid footing they reach out. What do they reach out to? Well in the past it was family and religion. Maybe their neighbors. But now, people are only left to reach for government. Reach for some nameless, faceless, cold hearted bureaucrat.
The underpinnings of our society have been broken down. Divorce, abortion, religious scandals. Who can you trust? Who can you trust? Trust ... your public school. Your president. Your union. Your media. Trust the institutions that have replaced the people.
It’s all about control.
I think you are correct.
This may be santorum’s appeal too. He is the little boy telling us the culture emperor is empty, naked.
The mainstream mocks him for not being cool like they are, not being down with gay sex, illegal drugs, porn and guiltless living. But he isn’t trying to point out the culture is sinning. He’s trying to tell them they are standing for EMPTINESS.
When anything goes, there is no culture. Our lives become as meaningful as lives of rats. Our art becomes as meaningful as what a rat drags back into its hole from the dumpster.