[Vision2020] A Mirror

[Joan Opyr]

> Dale says:
>
> "If the contemporary secular university scene is even half as 
> corrosive and Sodom-like as Tom Wolfe portrays it, why is that scene 
> patronized by even a few Christian families, much less by the hundreds 
> and thousands of us who send our sons and daughters there to be 
> 'educated' by such powerful forces?"

Is there a verb missing in this quotation?  As written, it makes no 
sense.  Also, just how old is Tom Wolfe?  I heard him on the Diane Rehm 
Show not long ago.  He said he interviewed many young college women for 
his novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," but does that mean the book is an 
accurate representation of contemporary secular college life?  It's a 
novel.  It's fiction.  It's interpretive.  Rather like Dale's blog.

I work with young college women.  I'm sure there must be some Charlotte 
Simmons types out there, but none have yet crossed my path.  I think 
it's a bit cheesy and disingenuous of Dale to compare the University of 
Idaho to Sodom or WSU to Gomorrah.  In fact, if Dale wants to play 
comparative moral rectitude, I'll take our "secular" students over his 
hundreds and thousands (read 140) products of New St. Andrews any time. 
  Someone let me know when the students of the U of I or Washington 
State are caught operating an illegal gambling casino; amusing 
themselves with scurrilous and phony "Topless and Proud" fliers; 
defacing the Welcome to Moscow sign; or doing hard time in the Latah 
County Jail and the North Idaho Correctional Institute for truly 
unspeakable crimes.

Looking for the wood in Dale Courtney's glass house but only finding a 
bottle of Windex and a big pile of rocks,
Joan

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

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