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Seeking Coherence in a Chaotic World
[Bruce Frohnen 02/22 10:17 AM]I have a lot of sympathy for Caleb’s view. But I think it shows just how diverse conservative counter-culturalism really is. I don’t like Teddy Roosevelt, recycle only the few things my limited reading convinces me should be and actually are recycled (as opposed to just taking a longer route to the landfill) and send my kids to a (Catholic) school rather than homeschooling. I wouldn’t even call myself “crunchy,” though I have many friends who are. But I live in a neotraditional neighborhood, eat organic when I can, and, to address Rod’s question, made a “hippie-ish” counter-culture move when the doctors tried to bully me and my wife into getting our first-born every vaccination in the book. We rebelled because all are painful, some are silly (Chicken pox? Just get it over with!), several rely on abortion, and some may even be dangerous (Hepatitis-B). Unlike our crunchier friends, we did let them give our kids some of the shots, but only some.
This is too “eclectic” a set of choices for me to condemn everybody else’s. Rather, to me it shows how each of us, as families, mostly, is being put back on our own resources in trying to make a sensible life in a culture that no longer makes sense. Which may simply raise a question: Is there such a thing as a coherent, “crunchy” lifestyle?
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