The Whitworthian

Issue date: 2/27/07 Last Updated: 8/9/07

Sure, the war in Iraq is dramatic and pertinent, and foreign policy and local politics are important to you the individual, but face it: You'd rather hear the latest news about the upcoming movie based on your favorite book or who married whom during their wild binge in Las Vegas.

American culture is under siege. Unfortunately, like the Egyptians and Romans before us, the siege comes not from outside our borders, but from within.

As a society our focus is increasingly less and less on politics and important civic matters and is narrowing more and more on physical appearance and how best to entertain ourselves. If we allow ourselves to become apathetic about these drastically important matters, who will begin making the choices for us? Do we even care enough to pay attention to what is going on around us?

Unless we keep our wits about us, we will be rudely awakened from our carefully-constructed dreamland to find ourselves face-to-face with the cruel, iron reality that there is more to this world than the pithy dramas of pampered, whiney superstars writhing in their decadence.

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