While reflecting on particularly disturbing news about troubled news about the cruelty of young people, it occurs to me that we, the adults, that is, have utterly failed them by creating the moral morass intp which they have been born & raised. An opposite world where selfishness & lewdness is the norm & where the only forbidden act is to say that there actually are acts that should be forbidden. And the Modern Enlightened Man seems to be working all the more to cast off any vestiges of the days when most people in most places in America still intuitively understood something called "decency."
From G.K. Chesterton's
What's Wrong With The World...
"This is the attitude which I attack. It is the huge heresy of Precendent. It is the view that because we have got into a mess we must grow messier to suit it; that because we have taken a wrong turn some time ago we must go forward and not backwards; that because we have lost our way we must lose our map also; and because we have missed our ideal, we must forget it."
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