We stop by to visit the McCain blog regularly. Today he posted this from Christopher Lasch:
“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . .
“Narcissism emerges as the typical form of character structure in a society that has lost interest in the future.”...
Notice the number of childless couples, or marriageable-yet-single people?
Lasch--who by the way was a Leftist--saw it coming.
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