A friend of mine sent this comment privately and I'd like to share it here:
"I really believe that the lust for the new in the mid 20th century was fallout from the horrors of WW1 and WW2. The generation that came of age in the 1950s was taught to scorn everything that came before as somehow tainted and responsible for the horrors they he…
A friend of mine sent this comment privately and I'd like to share it here:
"I really believe that the lust for the new in the mid 20th century was fallout from the horrors of WW1 and WW2. The generation that came of age in the 1950s was taught to scorn everything that came before as somehow tainted and responsible for the horrors they heard about and saw. Modern art, architecture, medicine, science-- was sold to them and subsequent generations as superior and indicative of a more elevated, educated age. The Church was both an active participant and a proponent of this gigantic fallacy. Today the Church is disintegrating because of this."
A friend of mine sent this comment privately and I'd like to share it here:
"I really believe that the lust for the new in the mid 20th century was fallout from the horrors of WW1 and WW2. The generation that came of age in the 1950s was taught to scorn everything that came before as somehow tainted and responsible for the horrors they heard about and saw. Modern art, architecture, medicine, science-- was sold to them and subsequent generations as superior and indicative of a more elevated, educated age. The Church was both an active participant and a proponent of this gigantic fallacy. Today the Church is disintegrating because of this."
So strange, I was thinking about the same thing earlier. Glad to know others are thinking along the same lines.