This kind of dyspeptic rant is only exacerbating the poisonous doggerel that is eating away at our civil society. Such toxic cynicism is self-validating: if you assume we are in a cultural death spiral and anything we try to do is futile or hypocritical, you help make it so.
Written by Tom Ellis
I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.