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What Our Culture Needs

In the ’60s, the Beatles claimed “All you need is love” and the hippie generation sought to live that out. However, many found that answer wanting and looked for more as depicted in the recent movie “The Jesus Revolution.” The '80s worked out the final vestiges of the cold war, resulting in the collapse of the Berlin Wall and what many believed was a new era of world peace. As technology advanced and moved society forward, scientific truth became the answer to all humanity’s woes. The '90s birthed a new era of informational exchange exponentially accelerating the rate at which the pool of human knowledge expanded as well as the rate lies could be spread. Facts and fiction could now be shared with a few strokes on a keyboard in an email. The dawn of a new millennium ushered in unprecedented connections through social media and smartphones. Now so-called truth experts could peddle their claimed knowledge through multiple platforms around the world. In our current era, however, tr