tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post6107647896180735330..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Once you begin to doubt . . .Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-4104407357669901282009-10-10T20:58:48.545-04:002009-10-10T20:58:48.545-04:00+1 Yes, an excellent post.+1 Yes, an excellent post.Tango Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593296126387219845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-91991985621448558402009-10-10T19:43:57.504-04:002009-10-10T19:43:57.504-04:00Excellent post. This really hit home:
"Cult...Excellent post. This really hit home:<br /><br /><i>"Culture and morality are machines for transmitting basic survival truths across generations. ... In 21st-century America, life is soft enough that our over-educated upper-middle classes are able to do away with moral codes that serve a purpose, and adopt more byzantine ones which demonstrate their freedom from concern. I see this as a form of conspicuous consumption, a status marker for viewing themselves above the lower orders."</i><br /><br />Nicely put. Which is precisely why the pampered sons and daughters of millionaires are the ones most likely to demand everyone else share their fascination with alien cultures and other-worldly value systems that dismiss tradition and extol novelty and weirdness for weirdness' sake. And why we benighted middle-class types still go to church and take the time to know who our great-grandparents were.Old Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11146916266682461688noreply@blogger.com