What is the purpose of education today? We have long passed from cultural education to technical because what passes for our culture is so diverse that, as the pseudo 1950s trad parents cry, "It is ours to teach our culture to our children!" But their blithering plethora of so called cultures and microcultures are no longer held together with tape and gloo by the American monoculture which arose and flourished during the radio/TV era, let's say 1920 to 2001. Yes, from the time we extended the vote to that last group of humans that Mrs. Madison insisted we include, even unto the 9/11 attacks which brought us together one last time. Now in the internet charged wreckage of the monoculture, we have our very own Trump-a-dump bestriding this narrow world like a colossus. What a shiny example of true Christian man-hood he presents to earth and nature! Our new culture is "Trump," and you are either in love with him or deranged by him; sorry, if you are on this planet, no escape for you! But Trumpkultur is, or seems to be tied directly and uniquely to the life-existence of one Donald Trump. If he passes he (presumably) won't rise again, and even if he does it will be more akin to Elvis that Jesus of Nazareth. What then cometh after? Will his movement cohere or collapse? After the tragedy we all have been living through, will it congeal again around some farcical caliphal successor? Or worse, will it have forged a template for any number of tyrannical egomaniacs who now, with their hour come at last, shamble toward their Bethlehem?
