Our crisis-filled adult world

Is post-9/11 life too burdensome for many of our European friends and local leftists? National Review spotlights a terrific article by classics professor and historian Victor Davis Hanson which examines the totality of the loyal opposition's message for what it is. His conclusion:

In a word, we have devolved into an infantile society in which our technological successes have wrongly suggested that we can alter the nature of man to our whims and pleasures — just like a child who expects instant gratification from his parents. In a culture where affluence and leisure are seen as birthrights, war, sacrifice, or even the mental fatigue about worrying over such things wear on us. So we construct, in a deductive and anti-empirical way, a play universe that better suits us.

A must read, even if obviously written by a classics professor.