From WSJopinion: The celebration of the queen’s traditional values suggests an unexpected recognition of the extreme artificiality of our now-dominant culture, writes DanHenninger
Wonder Land: Queen Elizabeth II's personal virtues are an antidote to our era's self-promotion and social-virtue signaling. Images: WPA Pool/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
For a moment I thought I was back in St. Margaret Mary grade school memorizing the useful virtues from the Baltimore Catechism: “The seven gifts of the Holy Ghost are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.” Counsel, as the young Elizabeth surely learned, is “advice, which guides us in practical matters.”
The celebration of the queen’s traditional values suggests an unexpected recognition of the extreme artificiality of our now-dominant culture. A culture of self-aggrandizement, though, is only one half of the shift in values revealed by the celebration of the queen’s life.
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