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Subscribe to CommentsYes. We may be witnessing the end of the culture wars as the primary cultural drama of American life. I suspect that for a time, the pitched battle between cultural-political conservatives and their liberal counterparts may intensify after a post-election pause, but it is inexorably now drifting from center stage. It’s a simple and unrelenting matter of demographics.
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I came of age under the spectre of wars and rumors of war. My father fought in WW2, and I grew up with the movies of victory over tyranny. My generation learned to hide beneath our desks as the rumors of nuclear holocaust swept over us during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then I watched my city burn with helicopters circling overhead and tanks rumbling down eight mile, a block away from my house. I sweated out the draft during Vietnam as a young father and lucked out with a low (or was it a high?) lottery number. No surprise then, that my generation, approaching mid-life, fueled the culture wars. So I wonder what’s to become of a generation coming of age in a time of bursting bubbles and collapsing towers?
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