Category: Fleming
Old Wine in New Bottles, Part I: The Kids Are Not All Right [sic]
In any decent society, patterns of deference are the foundation of the social order: the young defer to the old, females defer to males, parents defer to children. Any senior member who allows his juniors or inferiors to treat him with contempt or indifference is undermining the order and potentially rearing a sociopath who will prey upon his fellows.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface II
Most of us, when we were children, tried to explain away some deviation from parental norms on the grounds that “All the other kids are sporting a ducktail and wearing leather jackets or smoking dope and listening to Hendrix.”
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface Part I
After this tedious exposition, we shall get down to such questions as whether or not people who use cell phones in restaurants should suffer summary and immediate executions,
Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South
Recovering the sense of kinship is the escape route for people lost in the cosmos.
