From WSJopinion: This isn’t the first time in history that a wave of youthful righteousness has tried to transform America, writes Lance Morrow
Oct. 17, 2021 4:34 pm ET
John Lennon laid down a famous dictum: “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” Darkness was upon the face of the deep. Elvis Presley was the big bang. The new universe of rock ’n’ roll emerged. Elvis’s music brought forth a new culture. Before you knew it a vast young audience was rocking to Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The rest is history. The poet Philip Larkin satirized the moment: “Sexual intercourse began in 1963.
The cosmology of 21st-century wokeness is similar to that of the freshly formed counterculture in the 1960s. Wokeness, however, doesn’t assert that there was nothing prior to the current great awakening. Instead, it claims there was nothingmerely the wickedness of the American past and Western civilization, which has “got to go,” Mozart and all.
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