The Wandering Moon has an interesting post up on the need in our culture for ever and ever greater "Wows" for entertainment. It reminds me of a book I read some years ago entitled "The Cardinal". The book follows a young American priest from ordination to his first conclave as a Cardinal. In one episode, this priest has just returned to America from several years serving at the Vatican. It is in the midst of the prosperous 1920's. He is amazed at the crazniess in society. The same thing is happening as now, but perhaps then it was on a more innocent scale. People are carrying out crazier and crazier stunts to satisfy their craving to be entertained. Their leisure time (which is increased due to the prosperity) -instead of being used to deepen their relationship with family, friends and most importantly with the Lord, is used for those things which can never fully satisfy...
And Mr. Culbreath writes about goat's hair in his cereal, among other things....
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