Social decadence
Sir,—l agree with W. J. Collins and Geoff Leicester in their criticism of! society morals, and with the latter who, rightly, advocates constructive criticism as well as destructive, but I warn about being too general or sweeping. Society, youth in particular, can scarcely be called immoral in attitudes to nuclear war or environmental degradation. Still, and I do not think it is simply old!.age talking, we see falling standards as a result of excess materialism in plain honesty, sexual behaviour, and violence.! Humankind’s principal body cell, the family, is affected by the cancer of permissiveness. I believe that the present period will not be seen as poSt-Christian by future (historians but as presomething'or other, which is on the point of revealing; itself. The Western world is suffering pain in its transition from affluence to a more sober reality, but I think, in the long term, it will be all the
better — if I may use the word — spiritually. -F Yours, etc., VERNON! WILKINSON. March 3, 1988.
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