Selling fear...

An insightful article from Peggy Noonan about how we in this country are selling fear to our children and, quite frankly, each other. Worth the read.

Like many related articles, though, it identifies a problem without providing a solution (a common phenomena among our current roster of pundits). I'm not sure why that is, maybe its the same culture of fear, maybe its about our relativism and the widespread understanding there can be no real understanding about anything (the one dogma of modern man). Perhaps its just a matter of column inches.

And while some think the solution is technical or environmental and see a world where people have implanted chips and everything is locked up and tracked as the solution to fear (then, of course, we'd have to fear the people controlling the technology) there is something more. The beginning of the cure for fear is metaphysical, something inside a person needs to be transformed by a world view that allows them to step out of the moment and see everything beyond mere flashes and emotions, a way of life that embodies ethics and purpose and meaning and transcends life as we understand it.

Say Christianity?