The routine and humdrum of everyday life doesn’t stimulate social or personal renewal. There are too many comforts and distractions taking away incentives for change. Churches and schools simply have become too mechanistic, not up to the task. Moral compass has been slip sliding away. It would take something much more catastrophic to achieve a reset.
Families have been thrust violently back together again, forced to discover what that part of life has always been about. Eating and studying at home is making a comeback. Time to relearn what has been forgotten among family members and neighbors. Too bad that televised escapism has made the retreat to family life incomplete, though the internet and online learning can be like setting up home inside a big library.
One American Thinker Scott Powell suggests that coronavirus is, ironically, just what we’ve needed—and is long overdue: “The COVID-19 crisis provides us a window into our national social and spiritual health, and what we see from much of America’s Left as expressed in the media and Democrat Party reveals a degree and strain of moral impoverishment we haven’t seen before.”
He says that the virus will pass as all catastrophes do. But unless deprivations are deep enough and pain long enough lasting, then a return to the old normal will only mean even greater partying and forgetfulness about lessons that hardship is now teaching them. He asks if we are sufficiently asking the Bigger Questions and seeing the Large Picture, such as “Do we have sufficient courage and determination to successfully deal with the internal threats and contradictions that jeopardize the future viability of the United States and its Constitution?”
The real contagion isn’t really the various coronaviruses and other calamities that visit humankind now and again. Actually, “What has been allowed to grow in the American cultural and political petri dish over the last two generations is a mixture whose contagious influence is as harmful as it is riddled with absurdities.” For him, a partial list includes the following:
an unequal two-tiered justice system
open borders
preferential treatment of illegal aliens over American citizens
the dominance of political correctness and its de facto censorship of free expression
fake news
rewriting history
the 1619 project
renaming Columbus Day
the abolition of traditions of every size and shape
destruction of American historical monuments
trampling the American flag and other symbols of democracy
the eradication of family values while celebrating and elevating relationships counterproductive to procreation — an imperative for any civilization that wants to survive
election fraud and dismantlement of the electoral process
an attempted coup that would have nullified the Constitution and the peoples’ sovereignty; a baseless and wasteful impeachment
the disgraceful character assassination of nominees to the Supreme Court
the pervasive infiltration of education with academics hostile to America
the adoption safe spaces and the prohibition of trigger words on college campuses
union control and influence on public school educational curricula whose net effect dumbs down students and often paints America as the great villain.
America couldn’t ask for a better leader than President Trump to allow us to manage our way through the present crisis. It’s up to all of us, not just him, however. Same goes with our relationship with God.