American culture: an irreversible decline or a coming renaissance?

Renew America ^ | 13 Sept 2011 | Robert Maynard

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The other day I was reading n article by Mark Steyn that peaked my interest. The article was entitled "A Tale of Two Declines." The theme of the article is basically the same as Laura Ingraham's in her new book "Of Thee I Zing": "Even if our economic and national security challenges disappeared overnight, we'd still have to climb out of the cultural abyss into which we've tumbled." The rest of the article goes on to site examples from the book that illustrates the depth of our cultural abyss.

If one is prompted to wonder whether there is a way out of the abyss, the article is of little help in addressing that question. It was just such a question that led me to take a look at a book that the Hudson Institute put out in 2001 entitled "Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance." The book consists of a series of essays on the various aspects culture, its importance to a civilization and the possibilities for cultural renewal...

[cake_crumb]

It's not the demographics, it's the ideology. We live in a “gimmeee” culture. We've become everything we used to despise about third worlders and most EUros. And it's not just western civilization: out of guilt, Western civilization turned all the third world nations into gimmee cultures too. As for no 'whites' being left to pay for atonement, then the rest of the world is gonna have to man up or return to the stone age.

[GoodDay]

Besides, I read Laura Ingraham’s book and found it tiresome, not worthy of discussion articles.

I've never read any of her books but I did listen to her show on WABC Talk Radio. She became very tiresome during the last presidential campaign, so I stopped listening altogether.

[Don Corleone]

Yes, we are at a fork in the road.

As the man said,"When I came to the fork in the road, I took it." So it will be in November 2012 when the leeches of society vote to retain their freebies and the rest of us try to stop them. Which will be the road less traveled?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The author has a homophone error in his first sentence. That’s pathetic.

There ya go, bringin' the sodomites into it agin'!

[Prokopton]

Until people begin to recognize that marriage is a life time commitment, we'll continue to struggle with criminality, ignorance, illiteracy, vulgarity, and unproductive people leeching off the productive.

There's an awful lot of married people who are criminal, ignorant, illiterate, vulgar, and unproductive, who leech off other people.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

There's an awful lot of married people who are criminal, ignorant, illiterate, vulgar, and unproductive, who leech off other people.

Perhaps. However, certainly not every person who is married necessarily views marriage as a lifetime commitment that requires patience, responsibility, and maturity. I'd wager that perhaps most don't.

[Little Ray]

There won’t be an renaissance until Education is revamped. Currently Education in the hands our nation’s enemies.

Eliminate the Unions, and drastically pare down the Education “Administration” bureaucracy.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The author has a homophone error in his first sentence. That’s pathetic.

You're one to talk. From your FReep page:

"Put it back where u found it. We dun need anymore petz around here."

Goodness, what ATROCIOUS grammar!

[Melas]

With respect, you couldn’t be more wrong. Cultures don’t rot from the top down. The culture was rotting before Obama was elected, and will continue to do so until something remarkable changes within the population itself. We could elect a saint and it wouldn’t change the culture.

[End Times Sentinel]

Sure,

However, if you look at nearly every social pathology and malady, children raised in single parent homes are far more likely to be included. Incarceration, education, addiction, victims of abuse, welfare dependent, shortened life expectancy, age of mother at first birth, and pretty much every other category is swollen with children of single parents.

[Melas]

On a November day in 2012, the American people will decide which direction to take. The seldom taken road to prosperity or the well worn, socialist path to oblivion.

My money is on the third option. More of the same. It would take a literal and totally clean sweep of all three branches of government before anything really changed.

[YankeeinOkieville]

If you had read further you’d have had more sighing to do. The last sentence in that same paragraph the author uses “site” where s/he clearly meant “cite”.

*sigh*

[mtg]

"Even if our economic and national security challenges disappeared overnight, we'd still have to climb out of the cultural abyss into which we've tumbled."

The car has driven off the [moral/cultural] cliff and we are just waiting for the impact. It cannot be stopped. It's just a matter of time.

[Meet the New Boss]

The author has a homophone error in his first sentence. That’s pathetic.

You homophonophobe.

I'll bet you'd like to return to the days when dangling participles had to move to the back of the sentence.

You're probably the type who would force infinitives to stay together even if both consenting words would prefer to split.

[Tax-chick]

That was posted by one of my animal companions.

[Tax-chick]

The perils of spell-check. A human editor would read it and go ARRRRRRGH!, but the computer just sees a known word.

[Tax-chick]

All true!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

LOL, I noes, I wuz just pullin ur chain.

[Tax-chick]

Heh, I nu.