Birthpangs of a Superficial Generation Dear Subscribers, Enclosed is the latest essay. It's one of my diatribes, and please don't worry about it sounding negative. Next week, we explore the solution.
All comments are of course welcome.
Perhaps the greatest casualty of the general shallowness of life is human relationships, whose success rate today is at an all-time low. In the final analysis, success in relationships can only result from depth in those relationships, and this in turn can only result from depth in the totality of our lives. If its roots penetrate only the surface of the ground, it will be moved by even the slightest breeze. Things must be deep and penetrating in order to hold. The terrible consequences of a superficial world is that life itself becomes shallow so that nothing lasts and everything becomes ephemeral and transitory, including human relationships which can only thrive on real depth and existential meaning.