From Psychedelic Wanderlust to Obedience to Christ
Like many in Gen X, I grew up with divorced parents, a dysfunctional family, and the fracturing of community life as our individualist, techno-industrial culture turned digital. Many of us in the “Grunge Era” coped with our pain, isolation, and disillusionment by cynically disengaging and turning to self-reliance.
A Lone Brain on a Stick
As someone with an intellectual bent, I sought to secure personal stability through academic achievement and to escape the emotional volatility of my social world by spending hours alone in nature. My mind and I alone would build a nice, peaceful world for ourselves far away from narcissistic Boomers and the greedy excesses of the consumerist machine.
...Annie Crawford is a cultural apologist and classical educator with a Masters of Arts in cultural apologetics from Houston Christian University. She teaches apologetics and humanities courses for Vine Classical Hall and is co-founder of The Society for Women of Letters. Annie also writes for The Symbolic World, Classical Academic Press, and An Unexpected Journal, where she is a founding editor.
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