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Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not Enough

Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not Enough

Beaulieu, Peter D.

Paperback

CatholicismGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0761869115
ISBN13: 9780761869115
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: Apr 26 2017
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between this sense of abandonment and our inborn and neglected orientation toward personal worth and the common good (the natural law). Much of what is peddled as social evolution today is shown to be a throwback to darker times.

The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the perfect storm of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering arc of history and a more grounded arc of relations--our rationalized culture of death versus a flourishing human ecology.

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