Our beloved country is at a crossroads. Economic and cultural failure raises the question who are we as a country, and what is our destiny. We are citizens committed to personal integrity, expanding education, and ending repression and violence. We pursue the American Dream for ourselves as model for the whole world.
Our beloved country is at a crossroads. Economic and cultural failure raises the question who are we as a country, and what is our destiny. We are citizens committed to personal integrity, expanding education, and ending repression and violence. We pursue the American Dream for ourselves as model for the whole world.
Pope Benedict makes clear the Western World is experiencing cultural entropy. Institutions show signs of increasing chaos, loss of energy and emotional grounding. Violence replaces dialogue. Cynicism and sloganeering substitutes for problem solving. "Survival of the fittest" enshrines self-absorbed indifference to others pain. In the ultimate irony, putative leaders argue dissolution is sign of welcomed end times when Higher powers will descen...
