...thinking simply that "when the world stops reading, the world stops turning". One thing that the Culture hasn't done in the last three decades is turn its eye upon itself. It's wrapped itself in the culture of me, then hyper-me. Don't get me wrong: I'm a product of that fallacy - but I temper it with enough (I pray) to not actually believe it. The question for you, fair reader, 'do you believe in the mirror or what lies beyond'?
There's so many examples in my life right now to see an entitlement culture, a super-ego culture - an empty culture.
What do we do? I say, for the normal person, is pick up a book and read. If you haven't already done so, pick up Twain, pick up Orwell, pick up Rand, Boorstin, Shakespeare, Poe. Sit for two seconds, turn off the phone and the social site.
