http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Cockeyed Platonist (CP) is in a tizzy. Why you ask? The sky is falling? Hold on to your hats! The Younger Generation is going to the dogs, morally. (Does anyone remember Harold Hill?)  They don’t even know what morality is! Or even how to answer a question properly, with the requisite comprehension. And the proper respect for the world of Patriarchal privilege that CP grew up in, and holds most dear, is utterly lacking in the younger generation. Perhaps they watched too much Fox News? Or was it an early exposure to Rush Limbaugh? Oh! And the science quoted was at best debatable, being that its’ conclusions were tested against what criteria? This is after all science. Then we have the magic words in Right Wing circles ‘moral relativism’, it is so hackneyed. It has lost its power to shock, even with the two old war horses trotted out for the occasion, Allen Bloom and Gertrude Himmelfarb, to testify, albeit mutely, to the pernicious effects of a surrender to that vacant ideal of Liberalism, as interpreted by our resident moralist. No one need point the finger at CP as a right wing intellectual clown; he rather handily demonstrates that reality.

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