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Sub-Titles | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust
March 20, 2014
The sub-title of Mike Lofgren’s, “The Party Is Over,” is “How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.”
The sub-title struck me as a morality tale in and of itself and reminded me of “The Death of Character,” by James Davidson Hunter published several years earlier. The sub-title of Hunter’s is “Moral Education in an Age Without Good and Evil.”
While Hunter explores how a lack of moral sensibility leads a society to failure, Lofgren details how this is actually happening in the United States. The books are closely related, the theme of both being the lack of morality in the social commons. We experience this lack nearly every day in the melodrama of politics at the national level, a cruder version at the state level, antics at the international level, and in the conduct of life in general.
Is this a new normal or has it ever been different?
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