It's easy to become numb to the coarseness of the culture we encounter every day. After awhile, scenes that would have upset us ten years ago lose their shock value. We wander through public places as though we had blinders on, failing to notice the outrages that surround us. We take for granted the offensive content that assaults us on television, on the radio, on billboards. Deep down we may cringe, but we let it pass with a roll of the eyes.
Laura Ingraham, in her new book, Of Thee I Zing, describes being awakened from such a reverie while shopping in a mall one day. Suddenly things came into sharp focus: teenage girls in jeans that looked like they'd been painted on, teenage boys checking to be sure their boxer shorts showed above their pants, an explicit Victoria's Secret window display, a child screaming for a ZhuZhu pet, people walking around trance-like staring at various electronic devices in their hands, nobody really noticing anybody else. And she wondered how we reached this point.
TONY DIGIROLAMO- "And she wondered how we reached this point." I'll tell you how we reached this point Laura, we psychologized, secularized, and reduced God to a fable. That's how we got to this point!
Narcissistic, self-centered, self-esteemed horrific human beings.
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