Trippin’, yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she? “Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-K” I told my mom, tears rushing down my face, she’s like, When I was in the 3rd grade I thought that I was gay ’cause I could draw, My purpose, rather, is to suggest that the lyrics to Macklemore’s gay rights anthem perfectly encapsulate the current worldview of modern America. In and of itself, the spectacle of this whole thing (Latifah’s intro, the church set, etc.) is worthy of consideration concerning what it reveals about where we currently are, and you can see it here if you would like:īut evaluating the spectacle is not my purpose in this post. The purpose of this post is not to critique the strange, Moonie-esque mass wedding of gay and straight couples that accompanied Macklemore’s performance and was “officiated” by Queen Latifah (with a dramatic appearance by Madonna to boot)…not that such a critique is not deserving.
I watched some of the Grammy’s and was able to see Macklemore’s performance of his pro-gay anthem, “Same Love.” I had never heard of Macklemore or his song before last Sunday night. The moments where these things become most clear are in large public displays of the modern zeitgeist, such as award ceremonies like the Grammy’s, which aired on January 26. Modern America is now decidedly post-Christian and is steering into heretofore uncharted waters spiritually and morally, at least in our own story as a nation. No, I actually and simply believe that to be the case.
I did not mean the statement for shock value nor did I mean it as a romantic gloss on earlier periods of American history that, in their own way, resembled Rome here and there. I remarked to my daughter recently that her generation will grow up in an America that more closely resembles the ethics, morals, spiritual outlook, and overall milieu of the 1st century Roman Empire than any other generation in American history. (“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”)
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