Some years back, in a public college, I read an essay called “Our Schizophrenic Society” for Dr. Grant Bogue’s sociology class. The general gist of it argued that Americans should not be surprised that kids were growing up confused in a family that mandated church attendance while the father cheated on their income taxes, and so forth. Despite a long search, I’ve never been about to find the book of readings in which it appeared. Nonetheless, I’ve always found it instructive, more with each passing day. I won’t mention the cult who worships their Beloved Leader as the fulfillment of the second coming.
There are many concepts that have been lost in the era of social media. One is hypocrisy. Americans no longer see the connection between a draft dodger and a man who seeks to revamp our military. They worship a man with multiple divorces in the name of their deity who railed against the concept. This is the same deity who mandated that we offer succor to "the least of those among us." There seems to be no cognitive disillusionment with a president of the United States of America whose treatment of "the least" involves caging them and separating them from their families.
Lying. Well, that commandment doesn't apply to Beloved Leader. Things depend more on opinion than on acts.
Someone once said, "When things are at their worst, they must mend."
An Ernest Hemingway character once said, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
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