Monday, January 07, 2013

A nation of adolescents

I have been thinking of the prevailing zeitgeist as the rise of the un-serious, but I think Laura Hollis got it more right:


America has become a nation of adolescents The real loser in this election was adulthood: Maturity. Responsibility. The understanding that liberty must be accompanied by self-restraint. Obama is a spoiled child, and the behavior and language of his followers and their advertisements throughout the campaign makes it clear how many of them are, as well. Romney is a grown-up. Romney should have won. Those of us who expected him to win assumed that voters would act like grownups. Because if we were a nation of grownups, he would have won.
Yep.  I have no idea what to do about it, except gird your loins, but there is another look at the same phenomenon.

Read it all here.

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