[ClearCase_guy]

I'm going to throw this open to a much wider canvas -- We live in a very Ironic age. Nothing is taken seriously. Everything is a joke. And although we see problems, we feel frustration that nothing ever gets fixed.

I think that society will not get fixed until we Get Serious. Drop the jokes, focus on serious matters and have high expectations for people. For me, that means a return to a Christian Worldview. It's the one thing the Left is very afraid of. And so ... they make with the jokes.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Saul Alinsky smiles...(from hell)

[greene66]

I agree. I’ve long been sick of the constant ‘reflexive’ nature of the current culture, and how there’s a self-conscious, ironic tinge to just about everything. Ironic or sarcastic subtexts to every line of dialogue.

It’s probably one of the big reasons I seem to appreciate old movies more and more with each passing year. It’s just so refreshing to see people speaking and talking in a straight-forward manner, and comporting themselves as serious adults. That’s become such a rarity in modern American culture.