07.07.08

The girly-girl-ization of Western civilization

Posted in Culture, Spiritual implications of our life choices at 3:03 pm by Administrator

Mary Grabar on the significance of Oprah giving the commencement address at Stanford – and leaving copies of A New Earth and A Whole New Mind on each graduate’s seat.

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  1. Mr. Dings said,

    July 7, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    You’re fast turning into, not the brilliant social commentator and prognosticator you fancy yourself as, but a mere grumpy old man, bloggie, in my assholian opinion. So, we’re all in lock step with Oprah now and another bell tolls the death of Western Civilization, another thump in the hull of the Titanic as she takes on more and more water, while we dance away deckside? Even the huffers take notice and run for their barf bags dude. It’s much more diffuse than you think for many of us here. Guess you would damn that as relativism.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/16/oprah-gives-stanford-grad_n_107282.html

    Representative comment: “Did they moon her?”

    We are reminded not to take one another too seriously, as we are not seriously taken by others, ourselves.

  2. Administrator said,

    July 7, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Sorry, but when one of America’s most prestigious schools invites the likes of Oprah to speak, it’s a bad sign.

    If you think everything’s fine, you’re kidding yourself.

  3. Mr. Dings said,

    July 7, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Things are not at all fine; these are the worst times since before I was born. And look whose two term administration it all came to this under? Of course you’ve jumped ship too. Eckert Tolle is light weight zen, actually, without the koans. I’ve read his “Power of Now,” but had no inclination to read further or to jump in his cult. If it brings folks to the search, than more power to him. As for Oprah and her book club, well. And she’s still mainly for women, not men, not even grumpy old men. I would not have chosen her to speak there either, of course, but I doubt whether it’s a sign of anything remotely affecting the onward glide (I hesitate to say march, since that’s so “Old Europe,” to borrow a phrase from the once, not future, administration). Times sure are a changing, of course, and we all had a hand in that. Even neo-cons. Dost thou not trust the Omega Point?

  4. Administrator said,

    July 7, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    “We all have a hand in that” is your money line in the post above. How each of us plays that hand is fraught with implications beyond our most earnest attempts to grasp them.

  5. Mr. Dings said,

    July 8, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Then God is the “house,” so to speak? Let go and let God. Now that’s freedom, eh?

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