To most readers, I assume that the title of this post is confusing. While intoxication is a commonly known and understood state of being, the reference to crazy top is not. Crazy top is a slang term used for a genetic condition that afflicts almond trees. Crazy top is permanent, disfiguring and disabling. 

Upon my wife’s reading of my prior blog post, where I lament about the current state of Christmas and country music, she asked me what is the solution. Upon hearing her question my mind instinctively reacted as if she had told me to out wrestle the world’s largest gorilla. In my mind the solution to our society’s current state is so overwhelming, I have a very difficult time focusing on an area to attack first or how to construct a structure worthy of enabling redemption.

Whether it is trust, community, the sense of purpose, or the sense of right and wrong, who we are today in general has become so disordered that I must respond to the question asked from a junction. That junction is whether we are able to detoxify our intoxicated state or if we are in a permanent state of disarray where the only solution is to cut the proverbial tree down, rip its roots out of the ground, and plant a new tree.

Can society be reformed or do we need a whole new society? The Puritans from England thought their society could not be reformed. They acted and left to the new world. Their actions spoke louder than any word they could have said or wrote. Today I find that a similar shift is occurring in the land they helped settle, The USA. 

The transvaluation we have experienced in less than 15 years where we have seen the acceptance of gay marriage first, then the transgender revolution has become what I see as a tipping point for many in this country. To the point where such beliefs are so juxtaposed to their own religious and moral standards that they do not wish to belong to such a society. In an attempt to distance themselves, they have relocated to middle America where the standards of the past exist in greater form today. For these people, they don’t see a detox, they see a tree with crazy top that needs to be removed. Since they couldn’t remove the tree, they removed themselves.

I tend to agree with the group I’ve described above. I don’t see a transformation of society back to the way things were. I see the progression further down the rabbit hole of relativism and moral confusion. On the bright side, I do see more structure and organization of what might be seen as an underground movement to restore a semblance of order. Podcasts and online content can spread good ideas, too.

The problem we find is that in an age of instant everything, we fail to grasp that we are living as part of the broad canvas of history. The counter revolution we seek may not come within our lifetime. We must not let go of the reality that diseased trees, just like diseased minds, ultimately falter and give way to that which is good and vibrant.