Provocative. One thing I do notice about those people, though, is that however secure their own families may be, they’ve been known to undercut other people’s family lives by encouraging social trends that can have destructive consequences.
I agree—other strata of society can’t as well handle the ‘freedoms’ and policies that they promote.
I do wonder whether it is the decline in belief in traditional religion, coupled with technology that makes art and the precious less rare, that is the cause of all the putrid cynicism and irony and basic unwholesomeness that has overtaken our culture.
I don’t see the pill as the cause of it all, but there was a lot to be said for the innocence that seemed to come with earlier marriages.
I really don’t know that we’ll succeed in getting any of it back.