Orality, Literacy, Elite Fear of Physicality and Ambiguity -or- Why Is Johnny a Sober Virgin?

Thomas Harrington, Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College (https://www.thomassharrington.com) visits Messy Times for a rollicking discussion about the radical changes in American behavior over the last thirty years.  

Is it weird that the most educationally overprocessed - in terms of years slogging through higher education - people in our society are susceptible to the obviously irrational dictates of power-hungry nitwits?

Can a nation of illiterate, innumerate sheeple operate the American Experiment?  Does today's crop of risk-averse rule-followers meet the requirements for full participation in a governing structure created by rugged individualists with a serious reading habit?

If you have only one hour for this entire year to be Enlightentained, this is that hour.  

The background to this delightful dialogue is we've both published essays on https://brownstone.org.  Check it out.