Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles; its phony moral certitudes.It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.Every age has its massive moral blind spots.We might not see them, but our children will.Slavery was one of themand the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was--which was ungodly and inhuman.Ben Franklin called it when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.Segregation. There was another one.America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age.And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age.May 17, 1954, it says here, Brown vs. Board of Education came downand put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal.Amen to that.What are the ideas right now worth betraying?What are the lies we tell ourselves now?What are the blind spots of our age?What's worth spending your post-Penn lives trying to do or undo?It might be something simple.
