Modern culture disturbs me. Sane lives are mocked and insane ideas are celebrated. I just read a story about a woman in England who \u201cmarried herself\u201d in 2015. A man had chosen another woman over her, so her response was to show everybody that she had no need for a partner \u2014 and she had a \u201cwedding\u201d with a dozen bridesmaids and they all danced around in the street as she \u201cmarried herself,\u201d with some guy dressed like a high-church priest. Nothing says, \u201cI didn\u2019t really need you,\u201d like this sort of bizarre exhibition, huh? The woman then wrote a novel about a woman who married herself. None of this will affect me, of course. We\u2019ve always had iconoclasts. I\u2019m a bit of one myself. But it seems as though modern culture has become one huge freak show \u2014 and it seems unhealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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