Let’s Cool It
Don’t miss this from the irreplaceable, The Anchoress.
Another perfect little snapshot. Americans have become increasingly intolerant of each other and aggressive in their opinions, and their opinions are being marketed left and right, even down to the patches on the jeans…people are buying into ideologies that are all partly illusory, and they’re buying the accessories, too. They’re shopping and growling at each other…perhaps that’s the predictable end of any society that is moving away from the spiritual and more deeply into the material.
It doesn’t seem like any of us are covering ourselves with glory, these days, does it?
Don’t miss the link in the first sentence to her bookstore visit story either.