Compact Magazine asked polemicist Michael Anton - he of "flight 93 election" fame - to write a "The Pessimistic Case for the Future." He calls what resulted a "pessimistic take on the present."
The Anton essay is an everything-is-going-to-hell tour d'horizon of contemporary American life, featuring high octane pessimism. It's not recommended for those who suffer from depression.
Sadly, you won't find much to disagree with. We've passed too many of the mileposts Anton cites on our particular road to perdition. We've gone from a "can do" society to a "can't let ourselves do" kind of place.
As a senior citizen I merely hope we have another decade or so left in this fin de siècle-like phase of our society's time in the sun. Folks with children and grandchildren ought to be worried sick about the future their offspring will inhabit.
