"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage"
- Peggy Noonan
About this Quote
This quote by Peggy Noonan talks to the generational shift in mindsets towards religious beliefs and existentialism. She suggests that her generation, when confronted with the option between faith and existential anguish, selected cannabis as a way to cope with the unpredictability of life. This recommends that her generation was trying to find an escape from the hard questions of life, and cannabis provided a way to do that. Now, nevertheless, her generation is in a various phase, where they are relying on Cabernet as a way to deal with the exact same questions. This suggests that her generation is now searching for a more fully grown method to handle the tough questions of life, which Cabernet supplies a more sophisticated method to do that.
This quote is written / told by Peggy Noonan somewhere between September 7, 1950 and today. She was a famous Writer from USA.
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