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...Peninsula is really better off fighting someone else besides the cynics of this world. The January issue of the rightwing campus magazine, which takes on cynicism with a vengeance, might do better exposing hatred and oppression...
...staff members argue independently but with one voice that "a new cynicism has arisen," threatening belief, humanity, civilization and patriotism. The writers of Peninsula deserve praise for their industriousness as well as their moral seriousness, if not for their accuracy and understanding. They have chosen a subject that is simply too large to get a hold of, and in doing so, they have cheapened many of the causes they had hoped to champion...
Faith, Western civilization and patriotism come off like tired middle class values, propped up by the likes of Peninsula editors. Surely, Peninsula, that vigorous basher of the liberal status quo, has not slipped into apologies for the two car family? It is not the fate of the magazine that interests me, however. If the former gadflies want to slip into a premature middle age, that is not my concern. But they will not drag faith and Western civilization after them...
...might remember that Jesus was spirit made flesh, one might emphasize, contrary to Whitman, His incarnation over His sacrifice. To speak on Peninsula's own terms, one might advise Whitman that it is better to live a Christ-like life than to die for a cause. Religion is not nearly so far off from earthly cynicism as Whitman would have us believe...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...