an excerpt from an article about a concerning trend:<\/p>\n
\n(America is drunk….New data reveals that one in every six Americans downs eight mixed drinks within a few hours, four times a month.)<\/i><\/p>\n
Think about that: A significant portion of our population wants to not be present for significant portions of every single week.
This is what is happening. It is critical we determine why it is happening.<\/p>\nMy theory is that Americans are on a flight from reality. Faced with painful facts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding the precarious state of the economy, the gathering storm represented by militant Muslims, in general, and Iran<\/a>, in particular, the crumbling state of marriage in this country, the fact that our borders are being overrun, and the fact that our health care insurance system is in shambles (to name just a smattering of the troubles we desperately need to address)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe as a nation are drinking, drugging, gambling, smoking, Facebooking, YouTubing, Marijuaning, Kardashianing, Adderalling, Bono-ing (as in thinking of Chaz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sad flight from reality as good), Prozacking, Twittering, and Sexting ourselves into oblivion.<\/p>\n
The fact that we are doing this as a culture is the single most ominous psychological trend we have ever faced. I am not exaggerating. <\/p>\n
Unchecked, it will literally create an absentee nation, unable to summon real vision to confront real threats, unable to summon real courage to defeat real enemies, unable to buckle down and take the tough measures necessary to restore real economic stability, unable to tell our friends that we will defend them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif necessary, to the death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Read more: http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/01\/14\/america-is-drunk\/#ixzz1je1VDfCQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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