We as a nation were born in it and our history is replete with it. What appears unique to this generation is the dimension of children killing children. My son, soon after the tragedy, wrote an article in which he laid out the cultural abrasives he believes contribute to the creation of children without a conscience. He said, Adult society complacently indulges the destruction of cultural traditions. Legal norms are in shambles murderers and perjurers escape punishment, and civil justice has become an elaborate shakedown scheme.
Rampant materialism fuels a vicious cycle of decadent consumption and unending labor.
Finally, cynicism and lassitude are the adult responses to the widespread cultural decay. He goes on, our culture not only whispers, but veritably screams, that anything goes. There surely is a spiritual darkness that permeates the moral landscape of the nation. Our task is to now forego cursing its existence and begin to light the candles that will pierce it. There is cause to hope.