"We have educated ourselves into imbecility," quipped the noted
English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, as he bemoaned the many
nefarious ideas that are shaping modern beliefs. Venting an identical
disillusionment in his commentary on the American culture, George
Will averred that there is nothing so vulgar left in our experience for
which we cannot transport some professor from somewhere to justify it.
Why this juxtaposing of aberrant behavior with the halls of learning?
The answer is well worth pursuing if we are to deal with our present
cultural malaise by understanding its progenitors, and thwart what
looms as a future with terrifying possibilities.
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